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Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

I love it on this site when we talk about Ricardo Montalban and someone invariably puts out the call for KAAAAAAAHN!!!!
Thanks for not disappointing me, Mark!

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

OH MY!!! It is on right now on the SciFi channel!!!!!! KAAAAAAAHN!!!!!

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

This is one of my favorites, too. A really different setting and feel (as well as motive), and Montalban and Pedro Armendariz (the police chief) were perfect.

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You can't beat a bit of Ricardo Montalban. His best scene in this episode is where he remembers his last bullfight as the camera slowly closes in on his face.

Didn't he do the voice over for some car advert in the 80s smoothly purring about the leather seats or something.

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Co-rin-thian leatherrr... How many times does a line from a commercial become a classic?

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Wasn't the car the Cordova(sp)? Anyway, I have mixed feelings about this episode, too. I love the locale, the relationship Columbo has with his counterpart, and Ricardo has much potential for the best of all Columbo murderers. Is it possible the cultural differences are such that WASP's--as some of us are--just can't "get" the motive? I can certainly understand honor--but I do have difficulty understanding how killing a close friend would preserve my honor. Was the Ricardo character afraid his friend would tell someone? This seems doubtful given their long friendship. Or did he just not want him around as a reminder that he showed his fear? It seems to me the murderer has to choose between two private "hells." Does he want to be tormented by the fact that someone close to him has seen his fear, or tormented by the fact that he has killed a loyal friend--he chooses the latter. Then again, maybe the writers were going after something else entirely.

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I recall that when he got the job to advertise the car called the Chrysler Cordoba he told them that the name "Cordoba" (cities in Spain and Argentina) is pronounced CORdoba (accent on the first syllable) but they insisted he pronounce it "CorDOBa" (accent on the second syllable). I guess for thousands of dollars he was willing to compromise on his Spanish pronunciation!

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

WASP ????

Re: Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

Pardon my use of an old acronym: WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, often used by us former flower children as a synonym for the Establishment.

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

I thought I said that already!!!

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

Right, I think I once knew that but had forgotten

Re: Columbo: A Matter of Honor

And now you know it again!!!!