The greatest movie ever made..!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

***SPOILERS*** The made for TV movie "The Case of the Glass Coffin" seems to be the first case that defense attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, handled that he not only won which is like almost 100% of the cases he takes on but was actually an eye witness to!It's when world famous magician David Katz, Peter Scolari, did his flying coffin act at Denver's famous Paramount Theater that when the latch opened to show that no one was in it the coffin girl Kate Ford, Nancy Lee Grahn, suddenly popped out and fell some 30 feet to her death by breaking her neck! As things soon came out it was Kate who blackmailed David in getting her to be the coffin girl which may well have been the reason for him to do her in!Threatening to go public in David having an affair with her on a cold night back in Portland, after having one too many shots of Yukon Jack, Kate has the evidence in her being impregnated by him! Now with both his marriage to his faithful wife Judy, Kim Barden, as well as career in jeopardy David may well have been driven to murder Kate in order to keep her from talking! What ended up in saving David from taking a trip to the Colorado State death house was Terry Weidner, Kate Vernon, who secretly videotaped the entire glass coffin event that in the end proved that David was in fact innocent! ***SPOILERS**** Innocent in him not knowing that he was set up to take the rap by something who was part of the glass coffin act! Someone who had it in for Kate and waited eight years to get the chance to kill her for something she did back in her home town of Hasting when she was then known as Greta Eisner!It's both Perry's legman and human punching bag Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, as well as Terry who tracked down Kate's previous existence as Greta Eiseman and what it had to do with her being murdered as Kate Ford eight years later. Malansky for his part really gets worked over by some local homeboys for his snooping around in Hastings into business that Kate's pop Mr.Henry Eisner, Richard Jury, wants him to keep his nose out of! In the end the truth comes out in what exactly Kate or Greta did back there that had someone go so far as to get a job with David's magic show so that he or she can get their hands on her and put Kate in the local hospital morgue! Something that was covered up back in Hasting and kept from seeing the light of day until Malansky and Terry finally unearthed it!

Perry is literally up to his old tricks defending a magician accused of murdering one of his workers. What a motive he had. The woman told him that she was pregnant with his child.Naturally, there are others in the cast that can prove to be good suspects as well.Bill Moses, besides being a private investigator as well as an attorney, shows that he can get physical here. The guy is always making it with the chicks. However, he actually talks in an intelligent fashion.I was able to figure out who the real killers were right away. The killer and his cohort looked more like father and daughter rather than husband and wife. You just had to put the pieces together.The adoption scene was lovely at the end but was it really necessary to put in? Love should keep this couple together period.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin finds Raymond Burr defending David Copperfield/Rick Blaine like magician Peter Scolari from a murder charge involving one of his assistants. A trick involving a suspended glass coffin in midair goes awry and the body of Nancy Grahn comes a tumbling out.Nancy was one of six female assistants who work with the act and we learn two things about her. First in a moment of drunken weakness, Scolari got seduced by her and she claims she was impregnated. Secondly she is living under an assumed name and had a secret from her past.Billy Moses who probably never thought he'd be doing such rough stuff back in law school gets to tangle with a couple of good old boys when goes seeking the truth in Grahn's home town. A little more action than usual for Ken Malansky, he almost gets himself killed. One big flaw in this mystery is simple forensics. The medical examiner's report should have provided concrete evidence that the victim was killed in such a way that Scolari could not possibly have done the deed. The police should have been looking in a different direction for the killer. When you see who the killer is you won't blame the individual, but you'll also see how the investigating officer James McEachin got it wrong from the start. It kind of spoils this particular Mason film.

This babe has got to be the most appealing woman I have seen anywhere in a long time. I think she is just absolutely wonderful on the Matlock series. Thank goodness they are still running Matlock.. So wholesome, so exciting, such interesting stories.