Magic and a Motive | Columbo
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- Columbo knows The Great Santini is his man, but now he just needs hard evidence…
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The character development when Columbo finally compliments Wilson and Wilson's surprised and emotional reaction.
Cassidy's condescending and arrogant attitude in all the episodes are classic. He was just great for the bad guy.
And it SUCKS that this was his last Columbo episode before his death.
No one seems to talk about Wilson in this scene: The actor did a phenomenal job of shifting between a serious scowl to instantly lit up at the sight of something he is familiar with. It's a terrific scene
Jack Cassidy as an actor was a genuine, class act. Such wonderful expression, immense tone of voice and highly convincing delivery. I've always admired Jack's performances on screen, but this one is right up there with the very best. Seriously, who could have portrayed Santini any better? I can think of no-one, and that's the biggest tribute that I can pay Jack. *RIP*
I agree . Jack Cassidy was GOLD in everything I saw him in---amazingly talented .
I believe that this was Jack Cassidy's last performance in Colombo.
could not agree more -he was THE best villain, and an under-rated actor who nailed every nuance of his characters with the art of subtlety.
@Angie H. Eloquently expressed Angie - great moments and performances are timeless.
@@exitscreaming yes jack Cassidy a great actor but did smoke alot couldn't give cigarettes up unfortunately 😔
"But we don't have a motive for you". My favourite line out of all the Columbo episodes.
Everytime someone walk's off...."Just one more thing!?"......... "What What get it over with!!"
It's up there with "Suppose it was you?" to John Cassavetes.
@@lewisner Just for an example.
It's a good one. Honorable mentions- "He doesn't live here sir. I live here."
I saw this episode when it first aired and that line really stood out to me 📺
I love the way Santini (Cassidy) ignores Sgt. Wilson as if he is beneath contempt, beneath him intellectually. It says much about Santini's character.
Ignores him except when he looks over at him and derisively refers to him as “Dr. Watson”, Sherlock Holmes’s clueless sidekick. Perfectly contemptible delivery as we love to hate in Cassidy villains.
And the best part? “Watson” proves invaluable helping Columbo solve the case with his knowledge of the typewriter, something the Lieutenant didn’t know about. Serves Santini right.😏
@@Galantski Columbo even tells Santini during the solution that he only solved the case thankd to Wilsons Knowledge of Typewriters. To show clearly which important role his assistant played during his downfall
@@Ttavoc Right. _"Disposal carbon ribbon, sir."_ 😄
@@Galantski And Columbo, good guy that he is, always acknowledges the obtuse sergeant's contribution to the case. Remember the metal detector?
It is so well written. The dialogues are just brilliant; "Do u have a suspect? Yes we do, but we dont have a motive FOR YOU". And above all, Jack Cassidy's acting is absolutely perfect and the way he refers to the sgt as Dr Watson is hilarious.
Love Wilson in this episode. Wish he was in more.
Bob Dishy (Wilson) is still alive aged 87.
Yes, agreed 100%. Bob Dishy has such a light comedic touch as Wilson. It's an endearing character. Columbo comes to respect him and shows it. They both play this scene effortlessly.
Jack Cassidy was an underrated actor. I thoroughly enjoyed his performances on Columbo.
I think that's only because of his untimely death which meant he didn't complete his potential body of work.
My favourite Columbo episode.
"And I thought I pulled off the perfect murder."
"Perfect murder? Oh, I am sorry Sir, there is no such thing as a perfect murder, that's just an illusion..."
"The perfect murder sir? No, you see, that's just an ILLUSION"
I always liked that Sergeant Wilson got redeemed
Remarkable, modern typewriter...imagine that. Recall when Columbo was impressed by VCRs, answering machines, faxes, and automatic record players. Where has the time gone?
Always fun to date a Columbo episode by the tech they show off. In the early ones it was CCTV and answerphones. By the later ones it was remote control cars. If they were still making them today they'd have Columbo solve cases with Alexa, a Nest thermostat or a Ring doorbell.
Yeah imagine they have female sexandroids and cooks, that even are a better cook than many women.Nowadays it's not a surprise since many women can't boil an egg without spoiling it.
I always loved the way Columbo dealt with progress: Interest and curiosity. He never embraced or got overly excited or thought that those new things made life better, he never thought of them as must-haves. He simply accepted them and theyr possibilities and expanded his world view so that they would fit in.
Jack Cassidy is really very believable as a great magician. His movements and rhythm while performing tricks in the episode seem very natural. I realize much of this was probably accomplished with doubles and cutaways etc but I find his Santini very convincing. Another nod to Jack Cassidy's immense talent!
I noticed that also, especially when Colombo watched him practice his card tricks onstage, in which his character underlined the importance of large hands and dexterity for a magician. JC obviously put in the time in order to convincingly play one? True master of his craft.
Dag Colombo..” we don’t have a motive for you!” Talk about in your face. 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's weird to hear people from the 70's talk about how modern a typewriter is.
40 years from now people will laugh at our tech as well
Its not technology that has devolved us we never did evolve and technology just opened the world up and put a spotlight on us that exposed us for the assholes we always were and still are.The people of the 70s didn't have the internet to write stupid shit on so they wrote it on bathroom walls where less people saw it.
"It's weird to hear people from the 70's talk about how modern a typewriter is." You think that's weird, try being a person from the '70s.
I think you got it exactly right. People confuse a wonderful TV show with excellent writing and actors for the real life. Real life in the 70s was the dope addicts, lots of crime, idiotic anti semitic president by the end that made it seem like people shouldn't use ANY technology. Wear warm clothing, don't turn on the heat. Turn the lights off. I do know people read a lot more, the same people that now play video games only. But 80% of the population would just get drunk watching the stupid ball games exactly like now.
Yes and no, with Google, and apple you now use voice commands almost Star Trek like. You even activate the function by voice alone.
This was the last Columbo episode Jack Cassidy would appear in. It aired on Sunday February 29th 1976. Ten months later on December 12th 1976 Jack Cassidy would be burned to death in a massive fire in his apartment, caused by his own cigarette. Horrible death for such a great actor and according to Peter Falk such a wonderful man to work with.
Cassidy's remains were further cremated and scattered into the Pacific Ocean. FURTHER CREMATED ?
@@MrBeen992 It looks like he did the job for the funeral director.
@@Pfirtzer he shouldve gotten a discount
So sad
@@noeleenburns2874 Horrible way to die is what Peter Falk said when he heard of Jack's death.
Fun to see Art Garfunkle as Columbo's sidekick. 😁
That's funny. Bob Dishy does kind of look like Art ✌
This episode was classic, the end was just as good when Jack gets caught that look he gives to Columbo of arrogance and the defiance with which he walked out being escorted by the cops
That's a staple of Columbo endings: the arrogant caught and resisting being touched. Off hand, that happens with Lee Grant and Eddie Albert and Oskar Werner and Ricardo Montalban. You know they're never going to give up their self-justifications and need to feel better than everyone. They'll die unrepentant narcissists.
One of Jack Cassidy's greatest performances! In the final scene you see him look around at the "Cabaret Of Magic", knowing that he will never see it again; except in his dreams while in prison. I also like the song "Charade" by Henry Mancini, which is symbolic of "The Great Santini".
It deals with money root of evil great actors seamed so real
he was good in the elger sanction film 1975 as well
@@roywatson8133 He was great in that, and in fact that was the very first time I saw him.
@Angie H. my favorite
Trivia; Jack Cassidy and Thayer David (magic shop owner) also co-starred The Eiger Sanction (1975) with Clint Eastwood. Cassidy was the classiest Columbo villain of them all, it wouldn't have bothered me one bit had he been the baddie in every Columbo episode, that's how sublime he always was.
Ahhh, the IBM Selectric. Many a great Columbo screenplay was typed on such a machine.
Jack Cassidy was always my favorite guest star ~ he was impossible not to like
Charles easy to hate too! Lol he did a great smug villain.
Jack was truly superb in his three Columbo roles. Like yourself, Charles, he was my favourite guest star, too....along with Patrick McGoohan. By the way, I agree: Jack was surely impossible not to like as he was so smooth, so polished and so convincing in everything he did. What a great actor.
@@Turrican60 Robert Culp and William Shatner were no slouches
Jack Cassidy such a tragic ending to his life but what a fabulous actor.
@@chuckers40 l thought Robert Culp was definitely one of the best guest actors.
If he had guessed the number 3, Columbo would have directed him to look under another article in the room like a lamp or stapler etc....
Typewriters, now with BALL Technology, Very Modern. WoW, I remember those, I feel so old. 😅😆🤣😍
🤣😂
I remember when I bought my first VCR and thought it was so cool, today I stream movies and own a hand full of Blu Rays. Can't even buy a VCR today. 😂
Me too. It was the typewriter I used in my first job, 1989. It's an IBM Selectric.
Jack Cassidy was my favorite actor playing murder in Columbo. I can't choose the best character he played - Ken Franklin, Greenleaf and Santini - all these roles were fabulous.
Kamil Pietrzyk I agree - I think Santini was the best considering he had to learn all those tricks lol
Riley Greenleaf ("Publish or Perish") was my favorite of Jack's, by far .
I feel "Publish or Perish" is one of the top five classic episodes.
All three were great but if I had to pick one I'd go with Riley Greenleaf.
@@TheNYJets15 ugh... Didn't care for that episode(Now You See It). Cassidy was a serious alcoholic with major anger issues at that time. You could feel that rage in his performance .Cassidy was estranged from family... a very troubled man.
He died a year later.
J C very sad to hear how he passed...tragic! And I can imagine fame back then in such a quickly changing world couldn’t have been easy but never the less he left his mark on the history of Columbo to say the least!
It's a shame that the Columbo writing style did not allow for any other policeman in the series to demonstrate any genuine investigative skills. In this scene, for example, Sgt. John Wilson (Bob Dishy) clearly knows much more about how (then) modern typewriters worked, including the fact the IBM Selectric utilized a ball, rather than swinging keys, to make the type impression, and that a cartridge replaced the older ribbon. In either case, even if there was no paper present, the cartridge (or even the older style ribbon) would provide forensic evidence of the typist's actual keystrokes, and, hence, the contents of the typewritten document. Yet, Sgt. Wilson couldn't put one and one together to get two, as Columbo would then proceed to do, reconstructing the actual typed content. I suppose that this is one of those unwritten laws going back to the first detective story ever written, the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allan Poe, where the detective, C. Auguste Dupin, is the definitive master of drawing important logical inferences from discrete and seemingly unconnected facts that ordinary policemen don't even consider to be important.
Indeed! I would love for Wilson to have been brilliant with all things technology (and critically, able to gather clues from them), but lacking in other areas. Would have made him a perfect foil to the clever-but-technologically-challenged Columbo.
But, you have to pad out screen time. ;P
‘Now You See Him” - One of my top 3 episodes. Cassidy was perfect as The Great Santini. This episode gave Michael Lally his biggest speaking role in the series. Lally used his real name as his characters name and played the high wire walker that worked with Santini in the past. Cassidy did a superb job here. Learning some magic before the shoot, Cassidy had a blast filming this one. Unfortunately, Jack Cassidy would die only 6 months later in a tragic accident where he was smoking in bed -
Watching the late, great Jack Cassidy as a guest star on Ponderosa right now. Such a suave actor! 😄
Jack cassidy was sombre here, smarmy in murder by the book and trashy in publish or perish. Truly a great actor
Great scene from a memorable episode. Have watched it at least a dozen times over the years and will likely see it another dozen in the future..
I never see Jack Cassidy without trying to imagine him as Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore. He was all set up to play the role but couldn't break a contract.
Like how Columbo always throws a bone to the obtuse sergeant at the end.
He helps the investigation, even if he doesn't always understand it at the time. Good to see Columbo acknowledge it.
Top 5 Columbo Villains:
1. Jack Cassidy
2. Jack Cassidy
3. Jack Cassidy
4. Patrick McGoohan
5. Robert Culp
robert conrad
My favorites were Patrick and Jack.
Runner- up :
George Hamilton
Robert Culp should be at the top
I'd remove one of the Jack Cassidy's (I wasn't keen on Publish or Perish) and add in Donald Pleasance from Any Port :)
@@SirAdamUK Fair enough Murder by the book 📚 was the best Jack Cassidy one in my opinion.
Srgt. Wilson played a great 2nd banana to Columbo.. would of liked to see him in more than 2 episodes..
Albert Pena He was also on Maude. He is a very good 2nd banana 😊
Albert Pena Agreed. Would have been good to see Columbo interact more with a sergeant.
Colombo is the best!
Columbo is even better ! 😉
The greatest episode, great villain. The moment columbo uses santinis arrogance to incriminate himself by using the handcuffs is the best 'got you' moments in any series. The looks they give each other are on another level of acting.
The ribbon! The previously typed words are on the ribbon! Haha
Yes... that's what I'm thinking as well.
Eye Freely
We must be born detectives 🕵🏼♂️
Columbo would go insane with a laptop😂
3:50 The world's fastest typist.
This episode should have been called ‘Wilson’ - it’s only because of Him that the case was cracked.
One of my preferite episode of series and wonderful guest star acting ! Stefania from Italy ( sorry my bad scolastic english..)
JACK CASSIDY, "THE GREAT SANTINI"
Awe, quality episode and the way he reveled 'Santini's Tricks'.❤
"We do..........but we dont have a motive for you"......lol!😂
OMG
WILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU, MR JACK IMMORTAL CASSIDY, SIR ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Now now magician man... don’t get testy... Colombo might suspect you’re guilty... scratch that... he knows you’re guilty.
My favorite episode- Now you see him
I loved the 70s good time's
Jack Cassidy was born to play a Columbo villain.
"Over Macho Grande...?
No... I'll never get over Macho Grande...." 😂
Ha ha high tech, I remember when those typewriters came into use
One of my TOP 5 favorite Columbo episodes.
“Very good Wilson” … 😂🤣👏
See the expression on Columbo's sidekick when he is called Dr. Watson!....lol
My clear cut #1 Columbo episode.
cassidy was cool as steve mcqueen
Today, this case would've been a "hard drive" case... Where the suspect forgets that the computer's hard drive wasn't erased... In this case, it's the ink spool
Sgt. Wilson played an interesting role in both his appearances. He was getting everything wrong in the case, along with all the other police except for Columbo. But then in the end his familiarity with some newer gadget fills in a gap that Columbo probably never could have solved on his own. The snide remark from Santini about “Dr. Watson” was kind of funny, makes me wish Wilson could’ve showed up again some time.
There was one last group that needed a typewriter for something YEARS after everyone had computers. You could hear the typing all over the floor of probably 400 people. Very funny. Never worked in era of typewriters or smoking in the office.
Missed opportunity for a Detective Wilson spin off show.
Hmm. Columbo should have remembered this when the kid asked him if he was a magician in “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine.”
This was in 1976 and the Guillotine episode from 1989, so 13 year gap left Columbo lacking in magic skills.
You know how old this episode is when they are marvelled by a typewriter.
The IBM Selectric typewriter was one of the best typewriters ever.❣
Bob Dishy, so well cast in the Wilson role. 😊
Boom shadow at 2:40...great episode and ending, one of the best
The trick used for the magic number is the exact same reason why I'll never believe in hypnotism, he placed the note with the respective number under a specific object, when he said the number Columbo asked him to look under the object that would have it written on it, hypnotist tried that same trick with me except using coins and when I went to pick up another coin, he stopped me.
Fabulous
Una delle mie preferite! Titolo in italiano: l 'illusionista. Cassidy great actor like everybody guest star in the series included second-string actor ! And...wonderful thank to our warm actor voices ! We are proud of you!
“But we don’t have a motive for you.”
_love this episode just watched last night 10/17/21_
The Great Santini's shirt and scarf match very well, but wearing that jacket with the shirt/scarf combo is the real capital crime, here; Lord, it's enough to blind a person. . .
Is there any chance that you could be a little less conspicuous?
From Season 5, Episode 5 "Now You See Him"
Wilson is a good dude, smart and extremely humble. These kind of people unfortunately, no longer exist.
this guy was my FAVORITE villain
God I love Wilson, he's so unassuming and earnest. Loved him in contrast to Columbo.
Subtle clue in the background. A reel to reel tape player/recorder. The typewriter cartridge, like a tape, can be replayed (or re-read). Also, at 2:33 Sgt Wilson looks back at the tape player then to Columbo and says something, Columbo repeats and looks at the typewriter. Mimicking a replay. Not exactly a subliminal cut, but close.
The hand may be quicker than the eye, but no one is quicker than Columbo.
Dr. Watson .. lol
And by changing the golf ball, you can change the font!
They couldn't use Sgt. Wilson for more than 2 episodes; because it would develop Colombo backstory more. Colombo couldn't tell stories about his fake wife standing next to a partner who knew the story to be fake.
No, the show is always Colombo interactions with the suspect and how he catches them.
BestAnimeFanservice The only flaw to that is that Mrs. Columbo was not fake. He spoke to her on the phone many times, and other people met her, although not on screen.
Always curious to read peoples bio’s Jack had a truly sad ending being drunk before passing out with a lit cigarette. His charred corpse was found later in his burn out apartment. ☹️
yeah , he died in 1976----the same year this Columbo episode first aired . He was only 49 , sad .
Wouldn’t the ink ribbon have all the letters that were pressed on it?
"" now is the ... for all....[...] ""
Lots of folks here are talking about Colombo , Colombo is a Italian surname meaning pigeon , Columbo is no pigeon , he's a pitbull !
Pigeons can be a nuisance and so is Columbo for the criminals he encounters.
RIP jack
Cassidy has a very colorful attire.
“Wilson”, Bob Dishy, is the one Niles discovered was sleeping with Maris!
watching right now😃 2/21/21
That computer has no monitor! :P
Actually early computers had printer instead of monitor.
Lol
The disposable carbon ribbon…with the evidence of the letter.
I’m in Australia, but I remember years ago a person somewhere in America asked secretaries if they’d sell him the old ribbons from there type writers. He then used what was on them to blackmail some people. It was a story in the papers even over here, so I’m sure someone remembers the story, I couldn’t find a link to it, otherwise I post it.
Should've had an episode where he starred with his son David Cassidy
It’s a IBM Selectric
wow..who did wardrobe..such a good looking Jack Cassidy in that awful get-up...now that's a crime.
jack cassidy..........perfectly chiseled features.............a natural at so many things..........not the least of which is doing a vast array of accents..........his son david could also do accents...........i do no know how many............they may have done it instinctively w/o having to study it.
Your punctuation……….is…..unconventional.
What's a Typewriter?
😂😂😂
I thought of 2 also
THE IBM SELECTRIC
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