As always with me, the sight of the arrogant, condescending, egotistical, vain Jack Cassidy is enough to induce nausea and vomiting. This episode is listed as one of Peter Falks favorites and I can't figure out why. The slight of hand tricks performed are caught on camera or just lame, the lounge singer is talking about a gig in Vegas but it would have to be as a bus boy because he can't sing and his stage presence is that of a deer in headlights. The club is a dump, the extras playing patrons are ridiculous with the over the top facial expressions (Oh gee, am I going to get discovered?.....NO! ) and their applause to the most mediocre tricks performed. Columbo, Dog and the old raincoat turn in a very good performance. A couple of cast changes and this would have been an excellent episode. How about James Franciscus as Santini and anybody else for the lounge singer. And enough with the ex-Nazi war criminal theme, the Great Santini could have been guilty of a multitude of other blaclmailable crimes. I'm sure there are viewers that disagree with my opinions (just look at all the other reviews) and I have to state that this episode deserves a 10 rating compared to the next in the series titled "Last Salute to the Commodore ".
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