Synopsis[]
Perry's client is menaced by a car driven by a hooded assailant, whom she shoots at with a revolver that was planted in her room. When the guy winds up dead from a bullet wound, Perry confuses matters by firing an identical revolver at the scene of the crime, but after the fact.
Gallery[]
Cast[]
- Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
- Barbara Hale as Della Street
- William Hopper as Paul Drake
- William Talman as Hamilton Burger
- Ray Collins as Arthur Tragg
Guest Starring[]
- Whitney Blake as Evelyn Bagby
- Ralph Clanton as Mervyn Aldritch
- Gloria Henry as Helene Chaney
- Vaughn Taylor as Louis Boles
- Jane Buchanan as Mrs. Boles
- Dick Rich as Sgt. Holcomb
- Grandon Rhodes as Judge Kippen
- Norman Leavitt as Mr. Redfield
- Helen Mayon as Mary Thompson
- Jack Gargan as Court Clerk
- Clark Howat as Policeman
- Lorraine Martin as Drake's Operator
- Bess Flowers as Woman Departing Magnum Studio (uncredited)
- Lee Miller as Plainclothesman/Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- When Tragg arrives at Perry's office the night of the murder, Perry is seated on his desk and you can see the actor's tape mark on the floor to the right.
- Though this is the first episode to broadcast on CBS, it is not the pilot episode for this series; The episode "The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink" would air twelve weeks later.
References[]
- Eucalyptus Grove Motel
- Riverside
- Brent Building
- Magnum Studios