This film reunites Paul Drake with his costar from "the deadly mantis"... I did not recognize Alix Tilton at first until I recently watched the deadly mantis.
I agree with some of the other people here, and also with Hamilton Burger... "Mr. Mason wants to get us caught up with all these immaterial guns". In fact, this is not the first case where there were multiple guns, The very first Perry Mason episode involved two identical guns. In that instance, Perry knew that if he handed one gun to a suspect that he would be handed a different gun in return. And in doing that helped him figure out who the murderer was.
But in this case the same thing happens, but nobody had told Perry about it, and it looks bad...
Perry tries to handle this case the same way he handled his first televised case, but where that worked out well for him then, it does not work here.
We have to remember the liturgy of things to not do when you come upon a body:
1) never touch anything
2) never take things from the crime scene
3) never lie to your defending lawyer
And in case after case, the defendants always get tripped up with those three things.
And because the defendant was not exactly honest with him, Perry gets himself into a heck of a lot of hot water with Burger, and he has to crawl out from under it.
It is not the best Perry Mason episode, but it does have some interesting things. The cars for one...
But one of the Reviewers was asking what does this have to do with "long legged models?" This was because some of the women all worked at a certain venue in Las Vegas, where they were all modeling clothing, and at least two of these peripheral characters were employees at that venue.
It's too bad there was not some homage to the deadly mantis in this case... but there is an homage to Dick Tracy.
I agree with some of the other people here, and also with Hamilton Burger... "Mr. Mason wants to get us caught up with all these immaterial guns". In fact, this is not the first case where there were multiple guns, The very first Perry Mason episode involved two identical guns. In that instance, Perry knew that if he handed one gun to a suspect that he would be handed a different gun in return. And in doing that helped him figure out who the murderer was.
But in this case the same thing happens, but nobody had told Perry about it, and it looks bad...
Perry tries to handle this case the same way he handled his first televised case, but where that worked out well for him then, it does not work here.
We have to remember the liturgy of things to not do when you come upon a body:
1) never touch anything
2) never take things from the crime scene
3) never lie to your defending lawyer
And in case after case, the defendants always get tripped up with those three things.
And because the defendant was not exactly honest with him, Perry gets himself into a heck of a lot of hot water with Burger, and he has to crawl out from under it.
It is not the best Perry Mason episode, but it does have some interesting things. The cars for one...
But one of the Reviewers was asking what does this have to do with "long legged models?" This was because some of the women all worked at a certain venue in Las Vegas, where they were all modeling clothing, and at least two of these peripheral characters were employees at that venue.
It's too bad there was not some homage to the deadly mantis in this case... but there is an homage to Dick Tracy.