I: IT'S JUST LIKE MY AMERICAN COP SHOWS, SNAKE.
M: Hnh, Columbo... I appreciate the way he starts to walk away before confronting them with his signature phrase.
I: Snake, do you know Columbo was played by Peter Falk, who had a supporting role in the Frank Sinatra musical Robin and the Seven Hoods long before he became famous as the forgetful detective?
M: Seven Hoods?
I: That's right, Snake. It's a modern musical retelling of the Robin Hood story from English folklore and legend, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Bing Crosby in a contemporary setting.
M: Hmm, so it's a pair of the original Rat Pack in a crime story. Sounds familiar.
I: The other members of the original Rat Pack are there too, of course, but as you can expect, they all get less screentime than Sinatra and Martin. A young Peter Falk plays a crooked cop analogous to the Guy of Gisborne character, a toady to the Sheriff of Nottingham in the original stories.