"Matlock"
The Suspect (1991)

Director:

Harvey S. Laidman

Writers:

Anne Collins (writer)
Dean Hargrove (creator)

TV Series:

"Matlock" (1986)

Original Air Date:

29 November 1991 (Season 6, Episode 6)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Law Partner | Cult TV | Courtroom | Atlanta Georgia

Cast

Andy Griffith	...	Benjamin Matlock
Nancy Stafford	...	Attorney Michelle Thomas
Julie Sommars	...	Julie March, ADA
Clarence Gilyard Jr.	...	Conrad McMasters
Brynn Thayer	...	Roxanne Windemere
Mary Fanaro	...	Tanya Bergen
David Froman	...	Lieutenant Bob Brooks
Eric Pierpoint	...	David Houk
Pepe Serna	...	Walter Padilla
Constance Towers	...	Alice Windemere
Peter Van Norden	...	Nick Saddler
Harley Venton	...	Sonny Carlo
John DeMita	...	Hornsby
Michael Durrell	...	D. A. Lloyd Burgess
Carl T. Evans	...	John Windemere Jr.

Runtime:

Germany:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Trivia:

Brynn Thayer later played Matlock's daughter.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Matlock: Diary of a Perfect Murder (#1.1)" (1986)

Feminine wiliness in ruin

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The central image, of a woman played by Brynn Thayer as above average in her cunning and brought to utter ruin, goes about as far as one can. She takes up with a fellow who robs her well-to-do friends, then kills him, and finally has to stand up in a manner of speaking under Matlock's examining. One by one, every scrap of femininity and wiliness and dignity is stripped away or revealed as compromised, and there's nothing left but a woman with nothing left.

Now this is a great performance, and not to be missed, but the whole construction is of great and lively interest, with a counter-image of the case on at the same time for good measure.