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Raymond Burr and R.G. Armstrong in Perry Mason (1957)

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The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde

Perry Mason

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Continuity

When Bobby Carter is standing on his house's front porch talking with Tony Davis, Bobby's shadow is over his left shoulder; however, in the very next scene the camera shot broadens to include Tony and Bobby's shadow is now clearly over his right shoulder.
Diana Reynolds is standing in front of Perry's desk at least 5 feet away from the wall when he has Della take the picture of her black eye. Yet when he shows the picture to Mr. Bartlett, she is standing with her back to the wall so close that even her shadow is cast on it.
When Della takes the photo of Diana she holds the camera so the picture is in the landscape (horizontal) orientation. When the picture is shown in the next scene, it is in the portrait (vertical) orientation.
Della takes a photo of Diana in Perry's office. Diana poses for the photo with her left hand under her coat collar, but her hand is not in the photo shown immediately afterward.
In the prologue scene, Marian Shaw is shown with her arms at her sides in one shot and her left arm outthrust in the next.

Factual errors

Revealing mistakes

The photo of the defendant shown in the newspaper was the one Mason had taken in his office. Mason would not have given that photo to the newspaper and would have submitted a more suitable photo of her.

Boom mic visible

At 50:15. just after Norma Carter gets into her truck, the camera switches over to a view of Lieutenant Tragg sitting in a sedan watching the conversation between Perry and Norma. Reflected in the window in front of him, and in the shadow on his forehead, is the boom mic.

Character error

Perry cross-examines the caretaker about seeing the women following the gunshot and digging the bullet from the wall, but never questions from which wall he dug out the bullet or on which side relative to each other the women stood. The bullet coming from any wall other than directly behind Marian would have supported Diana's claim of a wild shot.

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