***SPOILERS*** Very unusual or one of a kind Perry Mason Mystery Movie or even Perry Mason 1957-1966 black & white TV episode in that the body or corpse of the victim doesn't show up until the very end of the film! Up until then your not quite sure if there was or was not a murder in the fist place!
Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, recovering from a skiing accident and gaining some 50 to 75 pounds in the process takes his good friend and mentor's, who thought Perry everything he know, Walter,John Ireland,case in defending former tennis star Billy Travis, David Hasselhoff in the suspected murder by drowning of his filthy rich wife, who among other things owns the biggest and most productive coal mine in the sate, Sara Wingate-Travis,Dorer Clark.The fact that Sara's body was never recovered doesn't keep the local D.A from inditing Billy for her murder which is a bit unusual in real life or even in the movies!
Even though the case against Billy is weak the state prosecutor assistant D.A Michael Reston, David Odgon Stiers, who hasn't won a case yet when it comes to banging heads with Perry Mason in the courtroom gives it all he's got to prove that Billy murdered his wife Sara in order to get his hands on her million all but falls apart before the movie is even over. That's with it being proved by Billy's personal physician Dr. Everett, Michael Flynn, that with his severely injured right arm he couldn't possible have rowed a boat out in the middle of the lake and dumped Sara's body in it!
***SPOILERS*** It's in fact Perry's private investigator John Drake Jr, William Katt, who after being stymied by her at ever turn finally tracks down Billy's former girlfriend Lisa Blake, Liane Langland, who's suspected by Perry and everyone watching to be Sara's real murderer that the shocking truth finally come out to who not only "Murdered" Sara but was also behind the murder also by drowning, in the very same lake, of her twin sister Amy some 15 years ago!
Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, recovering from a skiing accident and gaining some 50 to 75 pounds in the process takes his good friend and mentor's, who thought Perry everything he know, Walter,John Ireland,case in defending former tennis star Billy Travis, David Hasselhoff in the suspected murder by drowning of his filthy rich wife, who among other things owns the biggest and most productive coal mine in the sate, Sara Wingate-Travis,Dorer Clark.The fact that Sara's body was never recovered doesn't keep the local D.A from inditing Billy for her murder which is a bit unusual in real life or even in the movies!
Even though the case against Billy is weak the state prosecutor assistant D.A Michael Reston, David Odgon Stiers, who hasn't won a case yet when it comes to banging heads with Perry Mason in the courtroom gives it all he's got to prove that Billy murdered his wife Sara in order to get his hands on her million all but falls apart before the movie is even over. That's with it being proved by Billy's personal physician Dr. Everett, Michael Flynn, that with his severely injured right arm he couldn't possible have rowed a boat out in the middle of the lake and dumped Sara's body in it!
***SPOILERS*** It's in fact Perry's private investigator John Drake Jr, William Katt, who after being stymied by her at ever turn finally tracks down Billy's former girlfriend Lisa Blake, Liane Langland, who's suspected by Perry and everyone watching to be Sara's real murderer that the shocking truth finally come out to who not only "Murdered" Sara but was also behind the murder also by drowning, in the very same lake, of her twin sister Amy some 15 years ago!