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This asshole spent half of this episode running around in a tux and I couldn't even. Dear. God. No wonder William Hopper was half in love with Raymond Burr. I mean, COME ON.
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Thought you might appreciate a funny Cube guy spotted in the wild
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your man is hot but rectangular
The sexiest shape.
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Please Murder Me! (1956)
While I was sick last week, I finally watched the movie Please Murder Me!, starring Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury and I gotta say, it was worth the wait!
More (including spoilers!) below the cut!
It's both a textbook example of a B-movie film noir and an astonishingly proto-Perry Mason episode. Burr plays an attorney in love with Lansbury's character, despite her being married to his best friend. When she's arrested for her husband's murder, Burr gets her off on a self-defense plea only to learn after the fact that she really had killed him in cold blood and played Burr to make it possible.
Burr then vows to entice her into killing him because he's going to build up so much evidence ahead of time that she'll absolutely go to jail this time. He spends the movie needling Lansbury, building his case, pushing her buttons, and making threats. The tension builds and builds in perfect noir fashion.
The final denouement is perfect. Part of the beauty in well done noir, for me, is knowing from the beginning how it's going to end and yet still wanting to watch it play out.
Burr and Lansbury both needed this movie and they both shine. For Burr, it was really his first opportunity to play a leading man, to be the hero of the story instead of the heavy/villain. It's incredible to watch this after being so immersed in Perry Mason for so long because his character of Craig Carlson really is Perry by another name. He's a dedicated, clever, dogged defense attorney. He's determined and intense and has a commitment to Lady Justice above all else. I swear you could easily cut some scenes and drop them into a Perry episode and it'd be hard to tell them apart. It makes so much sense that he filmed this as he was auditioning for the role of Perry.
Lansbury was coming off a movie-making drought and needed the money. Her Myra Leeds is cold and calculating and utterly captivating. She turns from flirtatious vixen to ice queen in the blink of an eye and it's easy to see how she'd be cast as the evil mother in The Manchurian Candidate in just a few years.
All in all, this is a great movie and I highly recommend watching it!
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