Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr

Date of Birth: 21 May 1917

Country: Canada

Total Credits at Criticker: 86 (Actor)

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    Rear Window
    A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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    A Place in the Sun
    It really looks like George Eastman can at last have his place in the sun. A chance meeting with a long lost uncle has led to a job with a future and the beautiful and well bred Angela Vickers is just as infatuated with him as he is with her (imdb)
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    Airplane II: The Sequel
    A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track--again??? (imdb)
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    Out of the Blue
    A young girl whose father is an ex-convict biker and whose mother is a junkie has a difficult time coping with her parents' problems. (imdb)
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    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
    A 400-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex, woken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic bomb testing, attacks Tokyo. (imdb)
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    Godzilla 1985
    Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan. (imdb)
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    Delirious
    A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show. (imdb)
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    Bride of the Gorilla
    Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head? (imdb)
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    His Kind of Woman
    Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip to Mexico. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman... (imdb)
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    Great Day in the Morning
    After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town. (imdb)
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    Tomorrow Never Comes
    Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. In the course of fighting over this development, tensions between Frank and Janie escalate out of control until he is holding her hostage in a standoff with the police... (imdb)
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    Sleep, My Love
    Claudette Colbert wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue. (imdb)
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    Crime of Passion
    Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction... (imdb)
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    Peter and Paul
    Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts. (imdb)
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    The Blue Gardenia
    Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear John letter from him. Feeling despondent, she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office. He gets her drunk and leads her back to his apartment, where she resists his advances and bludgeons him in self-defense. She flees leaving behind the blue gardenia he bought her. The next morning, she's can't remember the details of what happened. (imdb)
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    Pitfall
    John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens... (imdb)
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    Adventures of Don Juan
    The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen. (IMDb)
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    Gorilla at Large
    At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath, "world's largest gorilla...cost the lives of 1,000 men before his capture." Barker Joey Matthews is about to enter the gorilla act, teamed with seductive mantrap Laverne, the owner's wife. Then a man is found dead of a broken neck. Was it Goliath or someone wearing Joey's gorilla suit? Detective Sgt. Garrison finds four interlocked romantic triangles among the suspects... (imdb)
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    Raw Deal
    Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) escapes prison with the aid of girlfriend Pat (Claire Trevor), but the break-out is a set-up from crime boss Rick (Raymond Burr). When justice worker Ann Martin (Marsha Hunt) is pulled into the escape, Joe is pursued by authorities, legal and underworld.
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    Borderline
    Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity. (imdb)
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    You\
    When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences. (imdb)
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    Love Happy
    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves. (imdb)
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    Desperate
    A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge. (imdb)
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    M
    In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children. (imdb)
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    Red Light
    Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. (imdb)
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    Ruthless
    Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.
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    Please Murder Me
    Attorney Craig Carlson confronts his best friend, Joe, to explain that Joe's wife, Myra, intends to divorce Joe to marry Craig. Joe is obviously upset and plans to "discuss" things with his wife. When Joe is found shot by Myra, Craig's problems begin as he represents Myra in court pleading self defense.
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    The Curse of King Tut\
    After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off. (imdb)
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    Aliens from Spaceship Earth
    Tries to prove that all great men of the past were actually aliens. (imdb)
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    The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena
    Documentary exploring such phenomena as astral projection, telekinesis, telepathy, voices from beyond the grave, ghosts/spirits, etc. (imdb)
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    Casanova\
    A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova... who's deeply in debt. (imdb)
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    A Cry in the Night
    A deranged man kidnaps the nubile daughter of a police captain. (imdb)
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    Station West
    Dick Powell stars as Haven, a government private investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen. Traveling incognito, he arrives in a small frontier outpost, where saloon singer Charlie controls all illegal activities. After making short work of Charlie's burly henchman, Haven gets a job at her gambling emporium, biding his time and gathering evidence against the gorgeous crime chieftain. (imdb)
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    Mara Maru
    An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
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    A Man Alone
    A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter. (imdb)
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    Black Magic
    A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court. (imdb)
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    Key to the City
    At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. (imdb)
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    Walk a Crooked Mile
    A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim? (imdb)
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    Horizons West
    Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas. (imdb)
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    Passion
    In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters. Overjoyed, he plans to formalize his "unofficial" marriage. But trouble brews; Melo's land is of unclear title and the new Don Domingo hopes to grab it for his own profit. Violence results. Without even knowing who survived, Juan rides for revenge, through spectacular pastoral and wilderness scenery. (imdb)
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    Tarzan and the She-Devil
    Ivory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured. Jane is also captured and believed killed, so the despairing Tarzan endures endless torture until he learns she is alive. He rises to the occasion and leads his elephants in the usual victory stampede. (imdb)
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    Centennial
    Centennial (1978) - TV Mini-Series
    The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s. (imdb)
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    Count Three and Pray
    A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War. (imdb)
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    Meet Danny Wilson
    Danny Wilson and partner Mike make a meager living singing in dives and hustling pool. One night they meet entertainer Joy Carroll, who gets them a job at racketeer Nick Driscoll's posh nightclub. But Nick wants a high price: half of Danny's future income. Danny's career skyrockets, but his position at the top of the heap, and his one-sided romance with Joy, prove extremely unstable. (imdb)
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    P.J.
    Private eye P.J. is reluctant when he gets a new job: he shall protect Maureen Preble, mistress of millionaire Orbeson, mainly from attacks by his wife and her greedy family. In truth Orbeson plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile P.J. falls in love with Maureen and Orbeson's money. (imdb)
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    Godzilla
    Having been rescued from the ruins, an American reporter recounts his strange story - a number of ships disappear in violent and bizarre accidents, leading to an official investigation and the discovery of the horrible truth. Torn from its undersea niche by the testing of hydrogen bombs is the towering behemoth, Godzilla. (wtf-film.com)
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    FBI Girl
    A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he's a convicted murderer, and that will come to light if the FBI does an investigative check on him. He goes to a local crime boss for help. The racketeer arranges for a low-level FBI employee to take the incriminating file from FBI headquarters, but then she is conveniently murdered. Two FBI agents investigating her murder begin to think that something isn't quite kosher. (imdb)
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    The Night the City Screamed
    Politicians, citizens, the mayor (Raymond Burr) and the police captain (Don Meredith) respond to a big-city blackout.
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
    An old flame of Mason's is one of those being considered to fill a vacated government position. Now, her husband's approached by a man who says he knows his wife's secret and that if this secret should ever get out, her appointment might not push through. (imdb)
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    Disaster on the Coastliner
    A vengeful employee of a computer-controlled railway arranges a head-on collision of passenger trains. Can it be stopped? (imdb)
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    The Whip Hand
    A reporter on a fishing vacation stumbles into a town where all the local fish have mysteriously died and the population is either too afraid to talk or is downright hostile. After some digging, the reporter discovers that a secretive group of men has bought a local lodge and apparently turned it into some kind of mysterious scientific laboratory. The reporter and the sister of the local doctor set out to discover exactly what is going on up there. (imdb)
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    The Magic Carpet
    Borrowing heavily from the Arabian Nights, this desert fantasy chronicles the exciting struggle of a deposed prince who rallies his raiders and rebels against the oppressive Caliph of Islam. He is assisted by a magic carpet and sexy harem dancer Lucille Ball. (allmovie.com)
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    Abandoned
    Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket. (imdb)
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    Affair in Havana
    Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife. (imdb)
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    The Bandits of Corsica
    Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness. (imdb)
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    The Brass Legend
    During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. (imdb)
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    Bride of Vengeance
    A female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim. (imdb)
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    Desire in the Dust
    A recently released prisoner seeks revenge when he returns home to find his girlfriend has married. He comes up against her father, who has political aspirations, a newspaperman who smells a big story, and the shadow of a crime that occurred six years earlier. (imdb)
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    San Quentin
    Television viewer seeing this for the first time: Gee whiz, it's in black-and-white and was made in the 40's and is about crime and...Eureka!...another "noir" film is discovered. (imdb)
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    Serpent of the Nile
    Filmed on sets left over from the Columbia superfeature Salome (and also using generous chunks of stock footage from that film), Serpent of the Nile is a quickie retelling of the Cleopatra-Mark Antony story. The Queen of Egypt is played by Rhonda Fleming, while Antony is essayed by Raymond Burr. Much of the crucial plot information is conveyed by dialogue (we never see Caesar's assassination, for example). (allrovi.com)
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    New Mexico
    Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted. (imdb)
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    They Were So Young
    A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market. (imdb)
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    Thunder Pass
    A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath. (imdb)
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    Unmasked
    The wicked editor of a prominent gossip tabloid allows a woman's weak-willed husband to take the rap for a murder he himself committed. (allmovie.com)
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    Fort Algiers
    In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers. (imdb)
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    Code of the West
    Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action. (imdb)
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    Fighting Father Dunne
    In 1905, a crusading priest tries to help poor newsboys. (imdb)
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    Khyber Patrol
    British officers battle bandits and guerrillas in India. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
    The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream. She's later killed and the formula missing. Her husband is arrested and Perry defends him. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
    Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
    David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason
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    Ironside
    Ironside (1967) - TV Series
    Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco. (imdb)
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    Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
    Busted pilot for a proposed NBC-TV series about Arthur Mallory (Raymond Burr), a once-great criminal attorney brought low after being accused -- and cleared -- of encouraging a witness to lie on the stand. In the pilot film, he unravels a case involving a young prisoner (Mark Hamill) who commits murder following abuse from a homosexual in jail. The lad claims he was unjustly imprisoned in the first place.
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    The Return
    Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
    Ken Malansky is a law student attending a class being taught by Perry Mason. When a friend tells him that his girlfriend was assaulted by a fellow student, Ken rushes to the university's mock courtroom to confront him and finds him dead. The murder weapon was Ken's own knife. Perry is reluctant to take on his case, especially since the victim was the son of a close friend. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
    A priest is murdered and the suspect is a nun. And it's been rumored that the two of them are having an affair. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
    Perry is sueing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
    In this episode Perry Mason has to defend the son of an old friend of his who is accused to have killed an ex-officer of the Nazi-SS. (imdb)
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    Grass Roots
    Grass Roots (1992) - TV Movie
    A respected lawyer/politician about to undertake a campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate is forced to defend a young white man for the brutal murder of a black activist.
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    Perry Mason Returns
    When his former secretary Della Street is accused of murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
    Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled. Mostly everybody hates Brett as Brett knows all the station workers secrets. He has also written a memo insulting all of the main station players - Vic St. John - the station manager, Twyla Cooper - the producer, Chuck Gilmore - the sports reporter, Gary Slate - the weatherman, Cassie Woodfield - the reporter and Gillian Pope.
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
    Thatcher Horton is owner of a Denver sports arena and a couple of sports teams. Bobby Spencer a friend of Ken was one of his hockey players. It seems that Horton verbally promised him that he would take care of him if he gets injured, which happened. Now it seems that Horton is reneging and he has asked Ken to represent him in his suit against Horton. Bobby threatened Horton and not long after that Horton was killed and the murder weapon was found in Bobby's possession. So Perry comes to help de
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    The Return of Ironside
    Chief Ironside has just retired and is looking forward to running his vineyard with his wife. But his retirement is interrupted when his old friend and colleague Ed Brown, who is now working for the Denver police department comes to him and asks him to fill in the vacancy left by the untimely death of the Chief. Ironside does so but with condition that it will only be temporary. But things are further complicated when Suzanne Dwyer the daughter of his old friend and colleague, Eve Whitfield is t
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    Unsolved Mysteries
    Reality based TV series that combines dramatic re-enactments with interviews to tell stories of REAL mysteries. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
    Horror writer David Hall reserves a hotel and invites his "friends" for the weekend. Each wants to sue him for some reason. Perry's friend Jordan is one of the guests. He is seen in the hotel's high tower when David is thrown to his death.
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