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Ransom for a Dead Man (1972)

Film · 1972 · 95 min · Drama · Mystery · TV Movie

A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.

Directed by Richard Irving

Starring Peter Falk, Lee Grant, John Fink, Harold Gould, Patricia Mattick, Paul Carr, Jed Allan, Charles Macaulay

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First release anywhere9 October 1972

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