**SPOILERS** Perry Mason, Warren William, really has his work cut out for him in "The Case of the Lucky Legs". Not only does Perry have to find who murderer corrupt promoter Frank Patton, Craig Reynolds, but also find a square meal to keep himself from starving to death. Perry had been put on this crash/starvation diet by his quack doctor Dr. Croker, Olin Howland, who thinks that Perry, looking like he's already suffering from malnutrition, is vastly overweight.
Hired by her boss Mr. Bradbury, Portor Hall, to get promoter Patton to give his client the leggy Margie Clune, Patricia Ellis, the $1,000.00 first place prize that he owe her Perry ends up defending Margie in Patton's murder. Perry discovers that Margie's outraged boyfriend Dr. Bob Doray, Lyle Tabot, who's upset that Margie, in a skimpy bathing suite, would show her legs as well as body off in public was seen hanging around Patton's hotel room just minutes before his body was found. To make things even worse for Dr. Bob the knife, thats used in surgery, that killed Patton came from his personal doctors' bag!
With Dr. Bob later exonerated in Patton's death Margie, who was seen running from Patton's hotel-room, is now the #1 suspect in his murder. Perry Mason hiding Margie away at the far-off Oceanview Hotel soon finds out from another "Lucky Legs" winner, whom Patton stiffed, Eva Lamont(Anita Kerry)that he's being impersonated by the person who representing her! It's that individual who it later turns out murdered Frank Patton!
Juggling between getting a bite to eat and proving his client, Margie Clune, innocent of Pttton's murder makes things a lot harder for Perry in the movie. Perry in trying to keep from passing out, from starvation, goes around raiding Margie and her roommate another "Lucky Legs" contestant Thelma Bell's, Peggy Shannon, icebox as well as helping himself to Mr. Bradbury's five course dinner at a swanky restaurant. These weird actions, why didn't he just buy himself something to eat instead of stealing it, gives those of us watching the movie the feeling that Perry is nothing but a moocher not the well heeled, in table manors, and socially refined gentleman that were used to seeing on the both big and small screen.
Perry eventually proves Margie innocent of Frank Patton's murder in getting the murderer to be identified by,in his impersonation of Perry himself, his client whom the killer deal with as her lawyer! If it wasn't for Perry getting himself a well deserved meal, of chocolate cake and sardines, at Margie's place earlier in the film he may not have survived, dying of starvation, long enough to get her off from being charged with first degree murder.
Hired by her boss Mr. Bradbury, Portor Hall, to get promoter Patton to give his client the leggy Margie Clune, Patricia Ellis, the $1,000.00 first place prize that he owe her Perry ends up defending Margie in Patton's murder. Perry discovers that Margie's outraged boyfriend Dr. Bob Doray, Lyle Tabot, who's upset that Margie, in a skimpy bathing suite, would show her legs as well as body off in public was seen hanging around Patton's hotel room just minutes before his body was found. To make things even worse for Dr. Bob the knife, thats used in surgery, that killed Patton came from his personal doctors' bag!
With Dr. Bob later exonerated in Patton's death Margie, who was seen running from Patton's hotel-room, is now the #1 suspect in his murder. Perry Mason hiding Margie away at the far-off Oceanview Hotel soon finds out from another "Lucky Legs" winner, whom Patton stiffed, Eva Lamont(Anita Kerry)that he's being impersonated by the person who representing her! It's that individual who it later turns out murdered Frank Patton!
Juggling between getting a bite to eat and proving his client, Margie Clune, innocent of Pttton's murder makes things a lot harder for Perry in the movie. Perry in trying to keep from passing out, from starvation, goes around raiding Margie and her roommate another "Lucky Legs" contestant Thelma Bell's, Peggy Shannon, icebox as well as helping himself to Mr. Bradbury's five course dinner at a swanky restaurant. These weird actions, why didn't he just buy himself something to eat instead of stealing it, gives those of us watching the movie the feeling that Perry is nothing but a moocher not the well heeled, in table manors, and socially refined gentleman that were used to seeing on the both big and small screen.
Perry eventually proves Margie innocent of Frank Patton's murder in getting the murderer to be identified by,in his impersonation of Perry himself, his client whom the killer deal with as her lawyer! If it wasn't for Perry getting himself a well deserved meal, of chocolate cake and sardines, at Margie's place earlier in the film he may not have survived, dying of starvation, long enough to get her off from being charged with first degree murder.