***SPOILERS*** You can see here in this Perry Mason episode that the ten years of grueling court room battles have taken it's tole on Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, and he's just about to call it quits. Looking tired and bloated, from his slim 200 to now some 275 pounds, Perry just goes through the motions to get his client British Rock & Roll wannabe singer Sandy Chester, Martin Horsey, off on a murder rap in his promoter Clete Hawley untimely demise. In fact it seemed as if it was an afterthought on the show's writers to have Hawley whacked since he had far more on screen time in him being alive, well over 40 minutes,then any previous murder victim on that show that I can possibly think of.
This guy Hawley had it coming and we all knew it from the moment he came on the scene. But who was to murder him was a far bigger mystery since almost everyone had it in for the guy and a few persons, who were innocent of murdering him, actually confessed in order to get the credit for doing it. As for British singing sanction, who was anything but, Sandy Chester he seemed completely clueless to just why everyone was making such a big deal about him! Since he couldn't sing a lick and was only interested in getting himself a green card so he could get a job like selling hot dogs popcorn and soda at Dodger Stadium during the baseball season or being a lifeguard at Ventura Beach.
***SPOILERS*** In court Perry puts the reputation on the murder victim Clete Hawley on the stand in what a low life rotten blackmailing scum bucket he was and how he destroyed the lives of his clients like Sandy Chester after he sucked , like a vampire, the life blood or money out of them. The big surprise in all this is multi millionaire financier Cameron Burgess, Paul Stewart, who somehow got a stake, and it isn't one through the heart, in young Sandy's Rock & Roll career. That together with song writer Riff Lawler's, Chick Chandler, connection through him being blackmailed by the late Clete Hawley turned out to be the real, among the many that weren't, reasons behind Hawley's murder.
This guy Hawley had it coming and we all knew it from the moment he came on the scene. But who was to murder him was a far bigger mystery since almost everyone had it in for the guy and a few persons, who were innocent of murdering him, actually confessed in order to get the credit for doing it. As for British singing sanction, who was anything but, Sandy Chester he seemed completely clueless to just why everyone was making such a big deal about him! Since he couldn't sing a lick and was only interested in getting himself a green card so he could get a job like selling hot dogs popcorn and soda at Dodger Stadium during the baseball season or being a lifeguard at Ventura Beach.
***SPOILERS*** In court Perry puts the reputation on the murder victim Clete Hawley on the stand in what a low life rotten blackmailing scum bucket he was and how he destroyed the lives of his clients like Sandy Chester after he sucked , like a vampire, the life blood or money out of them. The big surprise in all this is multi millionaire financier Cameron Burgess, Paul Stewart, who somehow got a stake, and it isn't one through the heart, in young Sandy's Rock & Roll career. That together with song writer Riff Lawler's, Chick Chandler, connection through him being blackmailed by the late Clete Hawley turned out to be the real, among the many that weren't, reasons behind Hawley's murder.