"I wanna go over the wall, I just don't understand this thing at all! Please don't be waiting for me..."
As I watched this highly unusual Perry Mason episode, I had to keep asking "Where was this location?" It really did look like a European Village, and with clever use of establishing stock footage, the producers of Perry Mason make us believe it. There are even Volksvagens and Citreons, instead of Fords or GM cars.
You have to remember there was still an Iron Curtain back in these days, and a Berlin Wall too. This ep appears to have happened in Switzerland, but the shade of Nazi Germany and WW II is all too present.
It appears that some secret Nazi treasure had been found, and that our guest-defendant (who actually never came to trial) had been set up as part of a fictional US Navy team to find it. Meanwhile, crooks are also looking for it.
Mason is on a plane with one of the crooks, on his way to meet the defendant.
But our guest defendant was only interested in a girl, really. The only question then, is "what is really going on"
This Mason ep is like watching a mid 50's Noir spy thriller, they did a good job of making us believe Perry was not actually in Big Bear Lake.
As I watched this highly unusual Perry Mason episode, I had to keep asking "Where was this location?" It really did look like a European Village, and with clever use of establishing stock footage, the producers of Perry Mason make us believe it. There are even Volksvagens and Citreons, instead of Fords or GM cars.
You have to remember there was still an Iron Curtain back in these days, and a Berlin Wall too. This ep appears to have happened in Switzerland, but the shade of Nazi Germany and WW II is all too present.
It appears that some secret Nazi treasure had been found, and that our guest-defendant (who actually never came to trial) had been set up as part of a fictional US Navy team to find it. Meanwhile, crooks are also looking for it.
Mason is on a plane with one of the crooks, on his way to meet the defendant.
But our guest defendant was only interested in a girl, really. The only question then, is "what is really going on"
This Mason ep is like watching a mid 50's Noir spy thriller, they did a good job of making us believe Perry was not actually in Big Bear Lake.