This is it, the last time Raymond Burr would play Perry Mason. By now all the details of his fate were in plae pretty much. In a way, it is great that a soap opera is used as the backdrop for the murder. Soaps were already in a major state of decline by 1993 and a murder at one seems to quite fit Raymond Burr's last effort.
Raymond Burr was the perfect choice to play Mason. It is hard to believe that when the original series was casting, he actually was being considered for the District Attorney role. He had played a defense lawyer in the 1956 noir Pleas Murder Me where he gets Angela Lansbury found innocent of a murder, she did commit. That is when he first uttered the words - "No Questions" on the screen.
In this last one, he has several people working against him while defending a young woman he knows very well. As usual she has been framed. With Della and Sgt. Brock on hand it pretty much fits the formula for most of the Perry Mason movies. It takes a lot of leg work to uncover the blackmail scheme that really is the motive for murder.
Overall, a very satisfactory last movie for an actor who did a lot more work in movies than I realized prior to the tv role. While most of his movies were forgettable the original tv series and Ironside and these last movies prove over and over again the great actor he really was. There. Really has not been a Perry Mason since Raymond Burr died, and there may never be another.
Raymond Burr was the perfect choice to play Mason. It is hard to believe that when the original series was casting, he actually was being considered for the District Attorney role. He had played a defense lawyer in the 1956 noir Pleas Murder Me where he gets Angela Lansbury found innocent of a murder, she did commit. That is when he first uttered the words - "No Questions" on the screen.
In this last one, he has several people working against him while defending a young woman he knows very well. As usual she has been framed. With Della and Sgt. Brock on hand it pretty much fits the formula for most of the Perry Mason movies. It takes a lot of leg work to uncover the blackmail scheme that really is the motive for murder.
Overall, a very satisfactory last movie for an actor who did a lot more work in movies than I realized prior to the tv role. While most of his movies were forgettable the original tv series and Ironside and these last movies prove over and over again the great actor he really was. There. Really has not been a Perry Mason since Raymond Burr died, and there may never be another.