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That was an excellent one.

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

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

About a year after actor Raymond Burr played silver-tongued Craig Carlson, Attorney-At-Law, in director Peter Godfrey's intriguing murder-mystery "Please Murder Me," he landed the role of a life-time as Erle Stanley Gardner's immortal defense attorney Perry Mason in CBS-TV's courtroom drama that lasted nine years. Later, Burr would renew his acquaintance with the role in a series of made-for-television movies. Mind you, Craig Carlson wasn't the only attorney that he played, Burr portrayed the prosecuting attorney in George Stevens "A Place in the Sun" (1951) with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Shelley Winters. Anyway, Carlson and his best friend Joe Leeds (Dick Foran of "Donovan's Reef") survived the life and death combat on Iwo Jima and became close friends. Eventually, a woman came between the two. Leeds married Myra (Angela Lansbury), but he spent too much time at work and left her alone to her own devices. The restless wife grew unhappy in her loneliness and sought a divorcee. She came to Carlson, and he fell in love with her through no fault of his own. Naturally, Leeds is considerably upset with this revelation of events. A couple of days after Carlson told him about Myra's decision to divorce him, Leeds said that he would think about it. During the thunderstorm, Leeds walked in on Myra and gunshots rang out. When the police arrive, Myra explains that she had to kill her husband in self-defense. Predictably, Carlson represents Myra as her attorney. No matter how iron-clad the prosecution plays the case, Carlson gets her off a murder charge. Not long afterward, Carlson discovers to his chagrin that Myra did in fact shoot her husband in cold blood. Cast as the treacherous wife, actress Angela Lansbury found herself on the wrong side of the law. Ironically, she would attain a fame equivalent to Burr's Mason during her 12-year run on the television series "Murder, She Wrote," where, she displayed her sleuthing skills each week as Jessica Fletcher. "Please Murder Me" is a contrived but clever courtroom melodrama, and Burr's Craig Carlson finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place. Riddled by feelings of guilt about getting Myra off the hook, Carlson sets out to build a file of incriminating evidence against her. Since she cannot be tried for the same crime twice, Carlson decides that the only way he can expose her as a murderess is to get her to kill him. The straightforward attorney hopes that Myra will pull the trigger on him, and he can leave the Prosecuting Attorney Ray Willis (John Dehner of "The Left-Handed Gun") with a tape recording of the event. Nobody gives a bad performance in this tightly directed, swiftly paced, 78-minute law & order yarn. This is one of those film noir films that lives up to its noir. Indeed, Craig Carlson dies, just as Edmond O'Brien died from an exotic form of poisoning in "D.O.A." (1949), another film noir thriller. The surprise ending is the only way that "Please Murder Me" could have concluded. This was British-born director Godfrey's last theatrical film, after having spent several years at Warner Brothers, helming such films as "The Woman In White," "Escape Me Never," "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Hotel Berlin," and "Christmas in Connecticut."

This is a pretty darn good crime noir. Angela Lansbury really had a fine performance here as Myra Leeds. Myra is a money hungry woman and will use men to get what she wants. Raymond Burr is super in this too as Myra's lawyer Craig Carlson, Craig is another man in-love with Myra and her attorney who helps to acquit her for murder of her husband. Once the trial is over things really pick up as Craig finds out more information, information that proves Myra is guilty of murder - yet she cannot trialed twice for the same murder. Craig feels guilty for her acquittal but what is he to do about it? You'll have to watch to find out and the title of the film will make sense then.This one I found worthwhile, really good and kept me interested from start to finish. I can easily recommend this film to fans of crime fiction and film noirs.8/10

Please murder me is a nice noir thriller on which the influence of Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity is clearly felt. It also is a film that could have been a lot better had their been no Code in place and with better casting of the lead. The issues here are straight out of Tennessee Williams.Raymond Burr is a respected defense attorney, upright and honest, but not as shrewd as the one he would shortly start playing on the small screen. His best buddy is Dick Foran who took a bullet for him in World War II and married Angela Lansbury in that order.Lansbury has apparently lost that zing in her marriage and shoots Foran and then gets Burr to get her off on self defense. He's got it bad for Lansbury, always has. But she's picked out hunky young artist Lamont Johnson for herself. That zing is where Tennessee Williams comes in. As for the casting I'd have rather seen someone like Gloria Grahame or Jennifer Jones in the lead here. Of David Selznick would never let his wife into a cheap independent like this one. Still Grahame or Jones would have been believable as a woman who Burr humiliates and destroys himself for.Not bad, but not Angela Lansbury.

Raymond Burr stars as an attorney caught up in the murder of his best friend (Dick Foran) thanks to his affection for his friend's wife (Angela Lansbury). This was a full year before he started doing Perry Mason, so the movie might be of particular interest to his fans if it was the inspiration for his casting.There isn't all that much else here that's interesting though. Lansbury is always good, but her character here is very one dimensional and the motives for her crime in the mystery are totally obvious. There's an interesting performance by Lamont Johnson as a painter who's also in love with the "femme fatale", but the Burr character is pretty straightforward. It's frankly bizarre to see an actor like Burr doing these romantic scenes with Lansbury, and his halting delivery does not match his character here very well as it does in most films I've seen him in. There's no mystery at all really, and the whole suspense is supposed to be around the title of the film and the way that Burr's character is setting up the Lansbury character to implicate herself (double jeopardy prevents her being tried again for the original murder, presumably). He does so with a very large tape recorder which she doesn't notice when she comes into the room I guess.A few perhaps unintentionally fun moments and basically the rest of the thing could have been done for TV.