Men Have Died And Worms Have Eaten Them, But Not For Love
When talk show host Geraldo Rivera's tell-all memoirs are published, he soon winds up dead. The police arrest and commence the trial of one of his lovers, Amy Steel. Little do they suspect that she will hire Perry Mason. His clients are never guilty! The murderer will confess on the witness stand! And so forth.
Raymond Burr returns as Erle Stanley Gardner's lawyer/sleuth in one of the TV movies that rounded out his career. It's a typically good entry in the series, although the casting of Mr. Rivera as the murder victim must have been a popular choice,,, and stunt casting, given his standing as a serious TV-newsman (on Channel 7 in New York when I was young) into the king of tabloid journalists. His real-life memoirs, in which he claimed to have slept with over a thousand women, was clearly the inspiration for the character he plays here.
Raymond Burr returns as Erle Stanley Gardner's lawyer/sleuth in one of the TV movies that rounded out his career. It's a typically good entry in the series, although the casting of Mr. Rivera as the murder victim must have been a popular choice,,, and stunt casting, given his standing as a serious TV-newsman (on Channel 7 in New York when I was young) into the king of tabloid journalists. His real-life memoirs, in which he claimed to have slept with over a thousand women, was clearly the inspiration for the character he plays here.
- boblipton
- Feb 5, 2019