Product Details

• Actors: Peter Falk, Vera Miles, Martin Sheen, Sian Barbara Allen, Vincent Price
• Directors: Jeannot Szwarc
• Writers: Richard Levinson, Jackson Gillis, Myrna Bercovici, William Link
• Producers: Douglas Benton, Richard Levinson, Robert F. O'Neill
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303129110
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,351 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars America's Answer to Hercule Poirot!, April 30, 2000

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Columbo: Lovely But Lethal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although many "Columbo" purists consider the Steven Spielberg-directed "Murder by the Book" to be the best of the shows, I find it hard not to place "Lovely But Lethal" about it.

This one shows the cut-throat world of women's cosmetics with a knock-out performance by Vera Miles as Viveca Scott, a reigning diva who will stop at nothing to maintain a dominant position in that industry. She is supported by a very young Martin Sheen as an employee whose greed - and his relationship with Miles's character - becomes his undoing. Sian Barbara Allen plays a secretary with bribery on her mind. And the late, great Vincent Price is on hand in a small part as David Lang, one of Scott's chief rival. The brief scenes between Price and Miles are show highlights because of their exchange of "pleasantries."

One cannot praise the others without mentioning the man who for over thirty years has brightened the small screen with his effective and entertaining portrayal as the rumpled detective: Peter Falk. He is the master of the befuddled look, the "Oh, by the way" questioning, and the resolution of the crime by some truly ingenious bit of deduction.

Yeah, Columbo is only as smart as the scriptwriters. But Falk is such a joy to watch! This episode really lets him shine!

Now, honestly, could anyone but Falk have played this character? I think not!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the very best Columbo's there is!!!!!, November 22, 2002

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Jay Manaway (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Columbo: Lovely But Lethal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In one word "STUNNING"! If you are a Vera Miles and Peter Falk fan this is a must, must, got-to-have movie. The story line of a stunningly beautiful head of a cosmetic corporation called "Beauty Mark, Inc., Vera Miles, is completely captivating in this role, YOU CANNOT TAKE YOU EYES OFF OF HER. Peter Falk's seeming busybody absentminded detective work coupled with Vera Miles cold, vain and greedy need the a anti-wrinkle creme for dollars and the 2 murders that surround the plot make for a extremely interesting night at home with your partner and popcorn. Buy it, you'll watch it over and over again. It's one of Columbo's very best.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PS, November 22, 2002

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Jay Manaway (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Columbo: Lovely But Lethal [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After watching this great Columbo movie staring Vera Miles, now I fully understand why she was Alfred Hitchcock's first choice for the movie Vertigo, before Vera got pregnant and he choose Kim Novak. Need I say more.