***SPOILERS*** You need a score card to follow what's going on in this overly complicated and confusing Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, episode with all the screwing and back stabbing going on it with sleazy real estate operator Stuart Benton, Jason Evers, finally getting everything he deserves: Killed with his skull fractured. With one of Benton's many victims construction owner and operator Pete Mallory, Jeff York, being blamed for Benton's murder and having to stand trial for it. Benton had country surveyor the scardy cat Phil Edwards, excellently played by Joe De Reda, falsify the survey maps to trick Mallory into building an access road from the lake to the luxury Bentonville Park Devlopment. The trouble is that the road was being built through Jim Aims', Neil Hamilton, property without his knowledge or permission. With Benton getting up front money from both Mallory and the person who provided him with his earth moving equipment Edward Parker, Burt Freed, he now plans to check out leaving both of them out in the cold and in debt. That's when the courts decides that the project was illegally built on Aime's property!
With an enraged Mallory on his way to confront both Edwards and Benton it's the wetting in his pants Edwards who gets worked over by him but it's the oily as a snake oil salesman Benton who's later found dead with his brains beat in with a iron yard or road marker. With Perry defending Mallory it comes out that even if Mallory did in fact kill Benton the guy was so sleazy and despicable no jury would convict him! Still Perry had to find out who in fact murdered Benton since it was obvious to him that his client Pete Mallory didn't do it! And the person whom he uncovered on the witness stand as Benton's killer had to be baby talked by a totally kind concerned and out of character Perry Mason, to keep him from passing out and going into shock into admitting his role in Benton's murder!
***SPOILERS*** Here we get to see the tough as nails and take no BS Perry Mason use both kindness and a bit of armature psychology to get the killer to admit his crime without his usual brow beating and take no prisoner theatrics. As for the deceased or murdered Stuart Benton no matter what kind of a low life swine he was he still didn't deserved to get murdered. And as for Benton's killer, who in fact was in cohorts with him, he would probably get off with no more then a misdemeanor or a justified homicide acquittal if he's ever put on trial.
With an enraged Mallory on his way to confront both Edwards and Benton it's the wetting in his pants Edwards who gets worked over by him but it's the oily as a snake oil salesman Benton who's later found dead with his brains beat in with a iron yard or road marker. With Perry defending Mallory it comes out that even if Mallory did in fact kill Benton the guy was so sleazy and despicable no jury would convict him! Still Perry had to find out who in fact murdered Benton since it was obvious to him that his client Pete Mallory didn't do it! And the person whom he uncovered on the witness stand as Benton's killer had to be baby talked by a totally kind concerned and out of character Perry Mason, to keep him from passing out and going into shock into admitting his role in Benton's murder!
***SPOILERS*** Here we get to see the tough as nails and take no BS Perry Mason use both kindness and a bit of armature psychology to get the killer to admit his crime without his usual brow beating and take no prisoner theatrics. As for the deceased or murdered Stuart Benton no matter what kind of a low life swine he was he still didn't deserved to get murdered. And as for Benton's killer, who in fact was in cohorts with him, he would probably get off with no more then a misdemeanor or a justified homicide acquittal if he's ever put on trial.