A Perry lite episode. Maybe Raymond Burr was being burned out by his punishing work schedule. Here Perry only appears in several brief scenes as he gives advice from his hospital bed.
The heavy lifting is done by law professor Edward Lindley (Michael Rennie) who thinks that a trial lawyer is a cross between a parrot and a jackass.
His student Janice Norland tells Lindley that she killed her boyfriend and dance teacher Raul with a poker. When Lindley and Janice go to the apartment to take a look, the body is gone. There is no sign of a struggle taking place.
Raul and his accomplices planned to blackmail Janice who eventually receives a photo of her standing over Raul's body with a ransom demand.
Then Raul actually turns up dead in the apartment and Janice is accused of murder.
Despite having no seeming trial experience, the dry professor defends her as Perry is in hospital. Paul Drake who made an early call that this was all a blackmail attempt by a gigolo now needs to unearth some evidence to help out Lindley.
It was a pretty shoddy and boring episode. Poorly written and executed. The last minute confession by the actual killer was laughable.
If this was the quality of the television series, I think I will stick with the later glossier television movies.
The heavy lifting is done by law professor Edward Lindley (Michael Rennie) who thinks that a trial lawyer is a cross between a parrot and a jackass.
His student Janice Norland tells Lindley that she killed her boyfriend and dance teacher Raul with a poker. When Lindley and Janice go to the apartment to take a look, the body is gone. There is no sign of a struggle taking place.
Raul and his accomplices planned to blackmail Janice who eventually receives a photo of her standing over Raul's body with a ransom demand.
Then Raul actually turns up dead in the apartment and Janice is accused of murder.
Despite having no seeming trial experience, the dry professor defends her as Perry is in hospital. Paul Drake who made an early call that this was all a blackmail attempt by a gigolo now needs to unearth some evidence to help out Lindley.
It was a pretty shoddy and boring episode. Poorly written and executed. The last minute confession by the actual killer was laughable.
If this was the quality of the television series, I think I will stick with the later glossier television movies.