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**SPOILERS** In case anyone missed it, the models in this episode are at least two classes behind Della. Stay tuned, Barbara fans. John Anderson drives a Ford station wagon with whitewall tires and a cardboard sign advertising his construction company?? The taxi stand that Loretta call for a cab from has the name of the company very crudely painted out (probably with housepaint so they could remove it easily. Props department gets a demerit for that flaw.

Loretta was driving a stolen car (Plymouth Savoy), did they investigate that? Nope. It just laid there. The party Loretta was hosting was a sex hook-up for modeling clients (terrible witnesses), everyone there would have denied being there. Barbara does a great job of tripping when they were running from the doberman guard dogs. Most of the time, it's a laughable stunt when the girl trips, so the hero can rescue her or the monster (or murderer) can get her;, but this was very realistic - she was wearing high heels, and George and Perry were already holding on to her arms. This part of the scene shows what a terrific actress Barbara was.

Right from jump street, Perry knew that Loretta and Frank (snake oil voice),were lying, and he gave them a warning; they didn't get it. The gun is NOT good evidence. There is NO connection between George and Dawn; it would have been thrown out as evidence against George. Blood? George told Perry that the suit hadn't been cleaned in a long time, and explained a possible cause of the old blood drops. If George had been in the service, his type would have been on his dog tags. No doubt THAT link was gone. The stolen car. The timing of the divorce and re-marriage did not fit. *SPOILER*

From this point, Perry systematically disassembles Loretta and Frank's testimonies, and clearly leads them into positively incriminating themselves. It was clear that he didn't just want to get his client off; which he could have done easily just using the evidence I've shown; but wanted to nail down the guilty parties. It was delightful. What about the paid-off building inspectors?? Borden was a conniving crook, and as we all know "Bad friends bring bad luck" (Don Vito Corleone).

One part I was very interested in was when Perry called Della as a witness. She confirmed some details, and Burger declined to cross-examine her. This is the second time that the story line in the case involves pin-up models. In this episode, as well as the other (I can't remember the name of the episode) the actresses are simply no where near as good looking as Beautiful Della. One point is that Barbara Hale was so pretty and accomplished that she herself had been a photographer's model. Gil Elvgren used her a couple of times; one I believe was called "Have a heart", a Valentine's Day work. She also modeled for several other major product lines, as well as being a representative for Amana corporation. I wonder whet SHE thought of the furor over any aspersions cast upon these models...

****SPOILERS**** Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, going out with his secretary Della Street,Barbara Hale, for a quite dinner at the D'Saul's restaurant is approached by George Andrews, John Andreson, of the Andrews Construction co, for help in a car accident he was involved in just about an hour ago. It's when Perry as well as Della shows up at the accident scene the woman who supposedly who was struck disappeared and was replaced by someone else who didn't have a single mark on her! On top of all that the person that Andrews was talking to prier to this strange accident Wliferd Borden, George Neise, was found shot to death in his office with him being the last person to see him alive now has Andrews, the guy involved in this bizarre car accident, being the #1 suspect not only in Borden's murder but in what is turning out to be a hit & run, by leaving the scene to get help, accident!

What you would, if you saw enough of them, expect in a Perry Mason episode in that Perry is as a cool as a cucumber in him just going through the motions in solving the case and getting his client-John Andrews-off. The case all boiled down to the women who was struck by Andrews who really was the person who was involved in kidnapping the driver who lost control of the car! That had Borden's killer who was being blackmailed him use all this confusion as cover in getting away with his crime that just had one hitch in it! The photos that Borden, who's am armature fashion photographer, took of the kidnapper didn't show the black & blue marks on her leg that she claims she got at the scene of her accident!

****SPOILERS***Perry Mason just goes through the motions here being both detective as well as lawyer for his client John Andrews in getting him off the hook in a murder case. As for the murder victim in all this Wilfred Borden he posthumously got justice done for him by photographing model Dawn Manning, Dolores Donlon, that in the end helped convict his killer Frank Fettridge, Dean Harens. Who used the excuse that he out cold drunk to sneak out of a party and do the guy in for attempting to ruin him financially!