***SPOILERS*** Overly complected script even for a Perry Mason episode involving famous Danish furniture magnet Axel Norstaad played by Brooklyn born and bread Karl Swenson who despite his expertise in making quality tables and chairs etc. has absolutely no business sense at all. In a crazy move on his part Axel sells his stock as well as world famous trademark in his company Alex Furniture Inc to this sleazy ex-used car salesman Martin "limpy" Somers, Dennis Patrick, who plans to milk it for all its worth. Somers' main objective is to bankrupt the company and leaving it's loyal and hard working employees, who worked for it for as long as 30 years, out in the cold by when his scheme is about to be exposed by him checking out in the dead of night and taking all the money along with him!
It's after Axel signed away the company to Somers that he realized what exactly he was up to and threw an hysterical and childish fit. With Axel's lawyer Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, telling the mad as hell Axel to cool off and see what he and the law can do to straighten this problem out Somers in found beaten to death at the local Windmill Inn with Axel, who discovered the body, being the #1 suspect in his murder! It's seems that among other things Somers was not only interested in getting his hands n Axel's furniture company but the land that it's on that Axel planned to build a children hospital. And as we soon find out it's the land not the furniture company who the person who murdered Somers was really after!
Meanwhile a strange love triangle developed with Alex, who really had no part in it, being in the middle of it. This all has to do with Axel's long suffering personal secretary Lisa Padersen played by former Danish beauty queen Osa Massen and the mystery women who set up the whole deal, by getting Alex to sell out to Somers and building the children hospital, Beverly Hill socialite Edie Morrow played by 1950's film noir femme fetal sensation Marie Windsor! Even though at first this seemed to have nothing to do with Somers' murder! In the two love sick womens desperate attempt to win over Axel, who was more interested in his furniture then any love and romance, who may have gone out of their way to do Somers, who planned to destroy Axel's furniture company, in by having a grateful Axel marry one of them!
***SPOILERS*** The ending of this episode happened totally unexpectedly before Perry Mason was even able to work up a sweat in the court room with the killer popping up in the spectator gallery and admitting his crime and the reasons behind it! It's as if he or she were so bored to tears in how slow the story was going for a one hour TV episode he had to put an end to it before time ran out and it had to be shelved, by the producers and their sponsors, from ever being broadcast!
It's after Axel signed away the company to Somers that he realized what exactly he was up to and threw an hysterical and childish fit. With Axel's lawyer Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, telling the mad as hell Axel to cool off and see what he and the law can do to straighten this problem out Somers in found beaten to death at the local Windmill Inn with Axel, who discovered the body, being the #1 suspect in his murder! It's seems that among other things Somers was not only interested in getting his hands n Axel's furniture company but the land that it's on that Axel planned to build a children hospital. And as we soon find out it's the land not the furniture company who the person who murdered Somers was really after!
Meanwhile a strange love triangle developed with Alex, who really had no part in it, being in the middle of it. This all has to do with Axel's long suffering personal secretary Lisa Padersen played by former Danish beauty queen Osa Massen and the mystery women who set up the whole deal, by getting Alex to sell out to Somers and building the children hospital, Beverly Hill socialite Edie Morrow played by 1950's film noir femme fetal sensation Marie Windsor! Even though at first this seemed to have nothing to do with Somers' murder! In the two love sick womens desperate attempt to win over Axel, who was more interested in his furniture then any love and romance, who may have gone out of their way to do Somers, who planned to destroy Axel's furniture company, in by having a grateful Axel marry one of them!
***SPOILERS*** The ending of this episode happened totally unexpectedly before Perry Mason was even able to work up a sweat in the court room with the killer popping up in the spectator gallery and admitting his crime and the reasons behind it! It's as if he or she were so bored to tears in how slow the story was going for a one hour TV episode he had to put an end to it before time ran out and it had to be shelved, by the producers and their sponsors, from ever being broadcast!