****SPOILERS**** In her attempt to brake up an affair by her cheating husband Bruce Granger, William Roerick, with the hotter then a Forth of July firecracker blond bombshell Roxy Howard,Greta Thyssen, his abused and love sick wife Sybil, Margaret Hayes,is desperate to do anything to get him back. Sybil gets attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, to short circuit Roxy's plans by keeping her from getting half of the real estate assets of the firm Bruce a co-partner in, the Sylvan Glave Devlopment Company, with the greedy and penny pinching George Lutts, Richard Hale. With Perry, using Sybil's money, buying $36,000.00 in shares in the company he keeps the firm from digging for oil, which as it turned out there there never was any, on the property thus leaving Roxy, who got Bruce to make her a co-owner, high and day in trying to get rich off it!
As things soon turn out Lutts in finding out what Sybil and Perry did confronts her, while she's spying on Roxy, and before he can as much say a complete sentence is shot and killed leaving Sybil, the last person who saw him alive, as the #1 suspect in his murder! The usual open and shut case that D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Talman, gets and as usual royally screws up has Perry do a number of legal maneuvers and acrobatics to get his client, Sybil, off. After putting everyone to sleep with his endless scenarios and mindless double-talk Perry finally goes for the jugular by brow beating the by now totally punch drunk Greta, from Perry's relentless cross -examination, to point out who really was behind Lutts' murder! The person to everyone watching this "Perry Mason" episode who was about as obvious as being the killer then anyone else in the cast!
P.S Were also entertained by Judge Hoyt played the "Eternal Colonel" himself Morris Ankrum who actually had a few lines to deliver including the most important one, when the killer tried to make his getaway, at the very end of the episode. This was Ankrum's first time being a judge, in a record number of 22 appearances, in a "Perry Mason" episode with his last appearance being broadcast some six weeks after his death in 1964!
As things soon turn out Lutts in finding out what Sybil and Perry did confronts her, while she's spying on Roxy, and before he can as much say a complete sentence is shot and killed leaving Sybil, the last person who saw him alive, as the #1 suspect in his murder! The usual open and shut case that D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Talman, gets and as usual royally screws up has Perry do a number of legal maneuvers and acrobatics to get his client, Sybil, off. After putting everyone to sleep with his endless scenarios and mindless double-talk Perry finally goes for the jugular by brow beating the by now totally punch drunk Greta, from Perry's relentless cross -examination, to point out who really was behind Lutts' murder! The person to everyone watching this "Perry Mason" episode who was about as obvious as being the killer then anyone else in the cast!
P.S Were also entertained by Judge Hoyt played the "Eternal Colonel" himself Morris Ankrum who actually had a few lines to deliver including the most important one, when the killer tried to make his getaway, at the very end of the episode. This was Ankrum's first time being a judge, in a record number of 22 appearances, in a "Perry Mason" episode with his last appearance being broadcast some six weeks after his death in 1964!