***SPOILERS*** Taking advantage of his new and naive secretary Arlene Ferris, Andra Martin, her boss Loring Lamont Jr, Tony Travis, gets her to go to his secluded bachelor beach pad to do some overtime on legal papers that she's working on. Getting her drunk with shots of gin & whiskey that he very possibly tried to slipped some date drugs into Arlene realized what Lamont was up to and made a run for it with Lamont hot on her tail in his hopped up and jazzy sports car. Carjacking Lamont's car after he, affected by all the booze he gulped down, staggered out of it Arelne takes off for home. It's later that Lamont is found stabbed to death and Arlene being the last person to see him alive is arrested and booked for his murder.
With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr,taking on Arlene's defense he soon finds out that Lamont was living a secret life besides chasing women. He was deeply involved with the mob in his gambling and betting, on the horse, activities. In fact Lamont was stiffing everyone in sight in him getting the cash to pay off his bookies before he ended up in cement overcoat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But as Perry discovered it wasn't at all Lamont's gambling problem that did him in! It was in fact his womanizing! He just went too far and in the end he ended up paying for it big time: with his life!
***SPOILERS*** This is one Perry Mason episode that you pull for the killer to get off Scot free in that his or her victim deserved everything that he got coming to him. I would think that Perry would later take up the killers case. In that he would feel guilty not only in not defending him but being the man who had him convicted!
With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr,taking on Arlene's defense he soon finds out that Lamont was living a secret life besides chasing women. He was deeply involved with the mob in his gambling and betting, on the horse, activities. In fact Lamont was stiffing everyone in sight in him getting the cash to pay off his bookies before he ended up in cement overcoat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But as Perry discovered it wasn't at all Lamont's gambling problem that did him in! It was in fact his womanizing! He just went too far and in the end he ended up paying for it big time: with his life!
***SPOILERS*** This is one Perry Mason episode that you pull for the killer to get off Scot free in that his or her victim deserved everything that he got coming to him. I would think that Perry would later take up the killers case. In that he would feel guilty not only in not defending him but being the man who had him convicted!