Raymond Burr has been so closely associated with the role that I'm not sure anyone would work. They tried it with Monte Markham and, as I remember, it sank pretty quickly.
Possibly, with a generation less familiar with Burr, it could work.
Maybe they could do a new version with a computer-generated Burr.
I've see this - and the other - old Perry Mason films, and though I thought they were pretty good, it's weird to see Warren William as Perry, especially when he puts on that straw boater hat.
I've always wondered about the cheesecake paintings on the covers of the novels while the series was always extremely chaste. I've never read Gardner. Were the Mason stories closer to the covers or the series or did it evolve over time?
They were chaste, all right. But I especially enjoyed the first book - The Case of the Velvet Claws. Perry is more hardboiled, chainsmokes through the whole story and never goes to trial. Other than that, I noticed no evolution.
Gardner was an exceptional writer. I wish a new version of Perry would return to the screens and return some spotlight to this marvelous author.
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr has been so closely associated with the role that I'm not sure anyone would work. They tried it with Monte Markham and, as I remember, it sank pretty quickly.
ReplyDeletePossibly, with a generation less familiar with Burr, it could work.
Lam and Cool might be a way to go.
Maybe they could do a new version with a computer-generated Burr.
ReplyDeleteI've see this - and the other - old Perry Mason films, and though I thought they were pretty good, it's weird to see Warren William as Perry, especially when he puts on that straw boater hat.
I've always wondered about the cheesecake paintings on the covers of the novels while the series was always extremely chaste. I've never read Gardner. Were the Mason stories closer to the covers or the series or did it evolve over time?
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They were chaste, all right. But I especially enjoyed the first book - The Case of the Velvet Claws. Perry is more hardboiled, chainsmokes through the whole story and never goes to trial. Other than that, I noticed no evolution.
ReplyDeleteYep, Burr will always be my Perry Mason.
ReplyDeleteThe graphics are lovely if a bit frivolous compared to Burr.
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