Tuesday, December 7, 2010

At the Movies: Perry Mason solves The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)








7 comments:

David Cranmer said...

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.

Randy Johnson said...

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.

Lam and Cool might be a way to go.

Evan Lewis said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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?

-Dan Luft

Evan Lewis said...

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.

Charles Gramlich said...

Yep, Burr will always be my Perry Mason.

pattinase (abbott) said...

The graphics are lovely if a bit frivolous compared to Burr.