7/10
Lethal Lifestyle Doesn't Need to Be Flamboyant ***
20 October 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Hal Holbrook has always been a wonderful actor but we don't need a flamboyant Perry Mason. Raymond Burr was so good at the part as he made you feel that he was a real attorney. Holbrook does not. Even his name Wild Bill immediately suggests a western dude who dabbles in the law.

The story line is good here. As always, there is someone who wants to make money off of wealthy individuals.

James Stephens is wonderful as the chess champ wrongly accused of the murder of a television fiend.

Diahann Carroll is memorable as a drug addicted actress attempting a comeback and Dixie Carter is marvelous as a basketball owner keeping her husband under wraps so that she can continue a clandestine love affair and run his enterprises.

William R. Moses proves once more that he is physically and mentally up to the part of Ken Malansky. He has the part down to a science, a good-looking, intelligent attorney ready to involve himself with the chicks.
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