After four Perry Mason’s Warren William dropped out of the role and was replaced by Ricardo Cortez – and there’s another new Della (she’s back to being just his secretary now and is played by an amateur hour actor) and a new Spudsy (back to being called Paul Drake).
William was never quite right as Mason but he’s better than Cortez who’s just this wet guy. (Raymond Burr is the one who licked the problem – play Perry Mason as earnest).
The plot involves a dispute over Henry Davenport’s will – amusingly, Mason represents the interests of a cat for a period. But the problem of this series was never the plots, they were always strong coming from such a good source, it was creating a family of characters that you looked forward to returning to time and time again.
Some decent support performances with the exception of a particularly insipid love interest pair, and this is the first Perry Mason film in the series where Mason is shown doing trial work – leading to a denouement consisting of a really, really long flashback scene.
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