****SPOILERS**** Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, does a little detective not legal work to trap the killer of art dealer Leonard Voss, John Holland, who was involved in a massive insurance fraud back in Rio de Janeiro Brazil six years ago. Voss ended up framing Claud Demay, Robert H. Harris, in an arson fire where a number of priceless artifacts including Pattermaker's tapestry "Theseus and the Minotaur" were destroyed. It was six years later that the long lost tapestry suddenly showed up at Perry Helton's pawnshop and bells started ringing all over the art world. Especially in Voss's head who thought that the priceless tapestry was gone forever.
As we and Voss soon find out the tapestry was a fake but copied by just released from a gulag like Brazilian prison Claude Demay who used it to smoke him out of his hole here in the states. That's to get Voss to admit that he in fact not only framed Demay but was responsible for the tapestry getting destroyed back in Brazil. Or that's what we as well as Voss and the person who's destroyed artifacts he had insured Nathan Claver, Conrad Nagel, thought! Of course being a Perry Mason episode someone has to get murdered and it's Voss who ends up being the lucky, so he came leave the show earlier and with a full paycheck, guy or victim. And of course it's everyone favorite fall guy Robert H. Harris as Claude Demay who ends up getting arrested and charged with Voss' murder. Perry feeling that Voss' murder was to cover up for an earlier crime that he was involved in goes back to square one, Rio de Janeiro, to solve it.
***SPOILERS*** As we soon find out that the fire that Voss set and framed Demay for had a lot more backstabbing and sleaziness to it then at first thought! Trying to get it, the insurance money and art pieces, both ways Voss in return got it right in the gut with a letter opener by the person, besides Claude Demay, that he ended up screwing! And it was Perry Mason's neat trick in the courtroom in revealing one of the so called destroyed art pieces, a brass Toa Kwan Buddha, that brought Voss' killer out into the open.
P.S Check out actor Percy Helton as the pawnbroker in this Perry Mason episode who also played the sleazy and greedy pathologist in the Mike Hammer classic "Kiss me Deadly". Percy in his greed was trying to shake down Hammer for a key he found in a woman's body that opened the door to the secret of "great what's it"; The thing that everyone in the movie was getting killed for. Percy instead ended up getting his fingers crushed by a gleeful Mike Hammer who just about had all he could take from him.
As we and Voss soon find out the tapestry was a fake but copied by just released from a gulag like Brazilian prison Claude Demay who used it to smoke him out of his hole here in the states. That's to get Voss to admit that he in fact not only framed Demay but was responsible for the tapestry getting destroyed back in Brazil. Or that's what we as well as Voss and the person who's destroyed artifacts he had insured Nathan Claver, Conrad Nagel, thought! Of course being a Perry Mason episode someone has to get murdered and it's Voss who ends up being the lucky, so he came leave the show earlier and with a full paycheck, guy or victim. And of course it's everyone favorite fall guy Robert H. Harris as Claude Demay who ends up getting arrested and charged with Voss' murder. Perry feeling that Voss' murder was to cover up for an earlier crime that he was involved in goes back to square one, Rio de Janeiro, to solve it.
***SPOILERS*** As we soon find out that the fire that Voss set and framed Demay for had a lot more backstabbing and sleaziness to it then at first thought! Trying to get it, the insurance money and art pieces, both ways Voss in return got it right in the gut with a letter opener by the person, besides Claude Demay, that he ended up screwing! And it was Perry Mason's neat trick in the courtroom in revealing one of the so called destroyed art pieces, a brass Toa Kwan Buddha, that brought Voss' killer out into the open.
P.S Check out actor Percy Helton as the pawnbroker in this Perry Mason episode who also played the sleazy and greedy pathologist in the Mike Hammer classic "Kiss me Deadly". Percy in his greed was trying to shake down Hammer for a key he found in a woman's body that opened the door to the secret of "great what's it"; The thing that everyone in the movie was getting killed for. Percy instead ended up getting his fingers crushed by a gleeful Mike Hammer who just about had all he could take from him.