A fun episode with fun and clever use of dream sequences that seem to refer to the old German-Expressionism film style; shadows versus light, close-ups, combined with psycho-analytic content. There were more films out around that time that did this, such as 'Kill me again', 'Knight moves', 'Dead again' and 'Final analysis', though most of these came out later than this.
The plot is okay, with an artist and 'his' three women, a psychologist who gets involved with one of the women (the one who gets killed, so his audio tapes of her become very important), Columbo who gets his portrait made and Columbo's dog 'Dog', who turns out to be one jealous Basset Hound. There was something about Patrick Bauchau's Max Barsini that didn't totally convince me, or maybe I was just jealous, too; a modern castle by the Pacific, three women (Isabel García Lorca...!) by his side and an incredible talent for painting (the latter being the only thing left to him in the end)... The actual paintings here were done by Jaroslav Gebr, by the way.
7 out of 10.
The plot is okay, with an artist and 'his' three women, a psychologist who gets involved with one of the women (the one who gets killed, so his audio tapes of her become very important), Columbo who gets his portrait made and Columbo's dog 'Dog', who turns out to be one jealous Basset Hound. There was something about Patrick Bauchau's Max Barsini that didn't totally convince me, or maybe I was just jealous, too; a modern castle by the Pacific, three women (Isabel García Lorca...!) by his side and an incredible talent for painting (the latter being the only thing left to him in the end)... The actual paintings here were done by Jaroslav Gebr, by the way.
7 out of 10.