****SPOILERS**** Jeweller Karl Addison, John Conte, has been fencing stolen jewelry through his bosses Old Man Charles Slade, George "Greedy" MacReady, jewelry exchange business for over a year while he was on vacation in Europe. With Slade now coming back to the states to check on how his business is doing Addison is desperate to check out of the country with his lover Slade's secretary the gorgeous blond Adele Bentley, Mary Anders, to South America before Slade finds out what he's been up to. At the same time Addison is scheduled to have an eye operation that he, in his unbalanced mind, plans to use as cover for his crime and intended escape from the long arm of the law. Addison plans to break into Slade's office apartment and steal the jewels while , after the eye operation, him being blind as a bat by practicing to do it blindfolded for weeks in advance to get the feel of the place. Now who can suspect a blind man to do something like that Addison as well as Adele rightly figures.
What they didn't figure is the hot under the collar James Kincannon, Jack Ging, who's mother's jewelry collection Addison is displaying and who's at the same time desperate for ready cash to make up a for $20,000.00 loss at his firm. The loss had to do with James covering for Charles Slade's son Harry who embezzled the money. Before Harry could pay James back the money he loaned or stole for him he himself was later killed in a car crash. Now it's the kind hearted and at the same time screwed James that's stuck with being charged with the crime. But things get even worse when Addison in trying to pull off his hair brained scheme of stealing Slade's jewels ends up falling or being pushed, blindfolded, to his death as he tried to break into Slade's apartment. It's there where Slade kept most of his business or jewelry. And just who gets the credit or blame for Addison's death or murder? The #1 fall guy in all this the luckless James Kincannon who just happened to have been seen leaving Slade's apartment at the time of Addidson's fall from grace or from the apartment patio!
***SPOILERS**** With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, defending James Kincannon he gets stuck in how to explain why a person so off the wall like Addison could have been murdered by his client even if he wanted to do it! When that lunatic Addison was doing a pretty job doing it himself! That by him walking or tip toeing over ledges three stories high totally blindfolded and with no sense of direction at all. The trick to Addison's murder is not what he saw which was nothing but what or who he heard! And by recognizing his potential murderer's voice who in fact at the same time was trying to raid Salde's jewelry box like Addison was that had him , by being pushed to his death, killed!
What they didn't figure is the hot under the collar James Kincannon, Jack Ging, who's mother's jewelry collection Addison is displaying and who's at the same time desperate for ready cash to make up a for $20,000.00 loss at his firm. The loss had to do with James covering for Charles Slade's son Harry who embezzled the money. Before Harry could pay James back the money he loaned or stole for him he himself was later killed in a car crash. Now it's the kind hearted and at the same time screwed James that's stuck with being charged with the crime. But things get even worse when Addison in trying to pull off his hair brained scheme of stealing Slade's jewels ends up falling or being pushed, blindfolded, to his death as he tried to break into Slade's apartment. It's there where Slade kept most of his business or jewelry. And just who gets the credit or blame for Addison's death or murder? The #1 fall guy in all this the luckless James Kincannon who just happened to have been seen leaving Slade's apartment at the time of Addidson's fall from grace or from the apartment patio!
***SPOILERS**** With Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, defending James Kincannon he gets stuck in how to explain why a person so off the wall like Addison could have been murdered by his client even if he wanted to do it! When that lunatic Addison was doing a pretty job doing it himself! That by him walking or tip toeing over ledges three stories high totally blindfolded and with no sense of direction at all. The trick to Addison's murder is not what he saw which was nothing but what or who he heard! And by recognizing his potential murderer's voice who in fact at the same time was trying to raid Salde's jewelry box like Addison was that had him , by being pushed to his death, killed!