Perry Mason (TV Series)

The Case of the Lost Last Act (1959)

Raymond Burr: Perry Mason

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• Perry Mason : Why didn't you like Royce, Mr. West?

  Jim West : The theater is something very special to me, Mr. Mason. It's been my family, my home; everything I've ever wanted. When I'm inside a theater, I'm in a church. When I see a great play, I hear angels singing. When I see great performances, I'm walking the streets of Heaven. Those streets are very clean and beautiful, Mr. Mason. They should be kept that way.

  Perry Mason : I repeat - why didn't you like Ernest Royce?

  Jim West : He was a litterbug.

• John Gifford : Time and again he tortured me with this gun. Put in my hand, defied me to use it. But he knew I couldn't kill. That night I came back to plead with him about the play. He taunted me again. And this time the gun spoke out for me.

  Lt. Tragg : Better give it to me, Mr. Gifford.

  John Gifford : This gun has limited vocabulary, speaks one short word. Everything that is, is suddenly revised. What is becomes what was, and what might have been, can never be.

  Lt. Tragg : Please, Mr. Gifford, the gun.

  John Gifford : It has one more word to speak...

  Perry Mason : It would be the wrong word, Mr. Gifford. A tragic ending to a play based on an old and sad mistake. You know as well as I, it was not you who killed Royce.