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Milton Selzer in Perry Mason (1957)

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The Case of the Decadent Dean

Perry Mason

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Continuity

The car fleeing the botched break-in has high-beams on at night. After narrowly missing the girl, the car stops. Neither brake lights or tail lights are on.

Factual errors

During court testimony, Eddie Firestone's character is said to have maintained and cleaned the station wagon meticulously, yet in later testimony Burger elicits evidence of grease on the jack handle by Lt Anderson -- since the jack handle is specifically used only to operate the bumper jack, remove hubcaps and loosen/tighten lug nuts (and none of these operations involves grease or lubricants of any kind), there would be no reason for the handle to be greasy except as a plot device...

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In the first trial, Perry Mason opens a book and reads "evidence section 12 34". However, it is clear that he only opens the book to the first page.

However, law books are multi-volume sets; it's quite possible the book Perry held was a mid-volume book of a large set.

Revealing mistakes

The video re-enactment of the first killing shows Paul Drake (William Hopper) easily lifting and tossing a floppy-jointed dummy into the water. However, the next scene supposedly shows this same dummy falling into the water, but its body is now in a controlled head down, arms outstretched, steady dive. That, and the substantial water-entry splash, is consistent with a real human diving into the water.

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