**SPOILERS*** Hysterically funny Perry Mason episode with Perry ,Raymond Burr,dueling in court with this annoying parrot named Cassanova who seems to have been an eye witness in a murder that his client Logan City librarian Ellen Monteith, Jody Lawrance, has been indited for. With Charles Sabin, Maurice Mason, found dead in his country cabin his pet parrot Cassanove was heard saying over and over again: "Ellen give me the gun don't shoot!" It fact it was first thought that Cassanove was accusing Sabin's step daughter that he suspected of forging checks in his name Helen Walker, Pamala Branch, until it was discovered that Ellen, the librarian Ellen , with her clothes and a library book found at the murder scenes who very likely did the guy in!
Things get even more complicated when it's discovered that Ellen, the librarian ,was in fact secretly married to Sabin whom she knew as George Wallman a sweet loving and caring kind of fellow who was the complete opposite of the nasty and vindictive Charles Sabin: Was Sabin in fact a Doctor Jkeyll and Mister hide type of guy? And to make things even more ridicules the parrot Cassanova who eye witnessed Sabin's murder and lived to tell about it turns out to be an impostor! In him, Cassanova the parrot, being replaced by an identical parrot and taught what to say,or had put words in his mouth, that Ellen killed him by the person who actually murdered Charles Sabin!
***SPOILERS*** As usual Perry Mason gets to the bottom of this baffling murder case by exposing the real killer of Charles Sabin in testimony that he unknowingly gave at the trial that implicated him in Sabin's murder. But we the audience as well as those at the trial never get to know just why he did it! Unlike in almost every Perry Mason episode this guy never had a chance to be cross-examined by Perry by him checking out of the courtroom and possibly taking a plane to South America before anybody ever noticed that he was even gone! And what was even worse then all that is Perry letting him get away in a half baked way of proving that he did in fact murder Sabin by not informing the judge that he was the prime suspect in Sabin's murder!
Things get even more complicated when it's discovered that Ellen, the librarian ,was in fact secretly married to Sabin whom she knew as George Wallman a sweet loving and caring kind of fellow who was the complete opposite of the nasty and vindictive Charles Sabin: Was Sabin in fact a Doctor Jkeyll and Mister hide type of guy? And to make things even more ridicules the parrot Cassanova who eye witnessed Sabin's murder and lived to tell about it turns out to be an impostor! In him, Cassanova the parrot, being replaced by an identical parrot and taught what to say,or had put words in his mouth, that Ellen killed him by the person who actually murdered Charles Sabin!
***SPOILERS*** As usual Perry Mason gets to the bottom of this baffling murder case by exposing the real killer of Charles Sabin in testimony that he unknowingly gave at the trial that implicated him in Sabin's murder. But we the audience as well as those at the trial never get to know just why he did it! Unlike in almost every Perry Mason episode this guy never had a chance to be cross-examined by Perry by him checking out of the courtroom and possibly taking a plane to South America before anybody ever noticed that he was even gone! And what was even worse then all that is Perry letting him get away in a half baked way of proving that he did in fact murder Sabin by not informing the judge that he was the prime suspect in Sabin's murder!