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Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, and Lori March in Perry Mason (1957)

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The Case of the Posthumous Painter

Perry Mason

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Continuity

In the opening sequence, the note left on the car steering wheel is not what the character wrote. The first line (the 'To' line) should have been "Edna -' - the note attached to the steering wheel is missing the dash (the printing on the attached note is also much neater and straighter than the character's handwriting).
The "suicide note" that Jack Culross clips to the car's steering wheel is not in the same handwriting as seen when the deputy sheriff looks at it.

Factual errors

Perry and David use a thermocouple to determine the exact date that specific portions of a painting were executed. A thermocouple cannot date a painting that precisely.

Revealing mistakes

When the police stop Miller in his sister's car, it is supposed to be at night. But neither car has its headlights on, so the scene must have been shot during the daytime with a filter.
The door on Clint Miller's jail cell clearly sounds like a wooden prop when it is opened and closed.

Miscellaneous

When the policeman pulls over Miller in his sister's car, the light on the roof of the police car isn't flashing.

Crew or equipment visible

After Edna bites her husband's hand and knocks Jack out by pushing his head against the car one evening in the gallery's dark parking lot, she visits Mason in his office. The shadow of a crew member's head shows prominently on the edge of Mason's desk during their conversation. As Mason begins to rise from his desk, the shadow quickly moves off the desk.

Errors in geography

Perry Mason's plane from LA to Dallas is flying over the ocean.

Character error

In the epilogue, David Gideon asks Perry if the buyers of Culross' paintings were defrauded. Perry responds that they weren't, because they were genuine. Then Edna Culross mentions that her late husband's paintings are now worth more now that he is gone -- yet when Durrant sold the works, it was assumed Culross was already dead -- therefore the art pieces should not have increased in value from what Durrant sold them for...

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