The Case of the Betrayed Bride

People saying it's awful, have forgotten 1964, it's no more over the top than other storys on TV of the day, like Burke's law etc. Also always gotta kick out of Jeanette Nolan in a blond wig and cocktail party clothes on, a departure for sure. The young maid is really from Europe, Belgium to be exact. Neil Hamilton does a great job as the over the top Butler , Guy Stockwell did a good job, so did Dianne Foster and John Larkin. Perry is driving a very nice Lincoln Continental Convertible, that the maid steals. Not one of the best, but also not one of the worst. It's very 1964, I was a kid then but did watch evening TV .

Paul flying to Paris.

Bigamy.

What happens to the property?

What happens to anything?

Silly and not in a fun way.

How did they get the girl into the house?

What happened to the tape recorder to get blood on it?

In this Perry Mason episode everyone is concerned about dotty old Aunt Jeanette Nolan. After the death of her husband her two nephews John Larkin and Guy Stockwell are concerned about her dissipating the family legacy that they would inherit. Especially after she returns from Paris and has a new younger husband Michael Forest. Warning bells go off in everyone's head, most especially in butler Neil Hamilton's who hires a lovely French maid Annie Farge to put temptation in Forest's path.

When Forest is found dead in the pool though like William Holden in Sunset Boulevard the police the lovely Ms. Farge and Perry Mason who becomes her attorney shows some remarkable forgiveness as Annie fled the crime scene stealing Raymond Burr's car.

This was a really good episode with a lot of plot twists, the last one naming murderer quite a turn of events. Don't miss this episode at all.

This episode was poorly directed and acted. I can only guess that some focus group said that the Perry Mason series needed more emotion. This episode has it in spades. Melodramatic, overdone, unbelievable, and just plain bad. Couple that with a highly implausible story, and you have one of the worst PM episodes on record.

plot was fun,but this was EASILY the worst acted of any of the 200 plus episodes..and these were usually solid guest actors..bad accents,mugging for the camera,caricature instead of character..the series regular cast tried their best,but it came across as a middle school production..even the best of series has the occasional clunker,and this was one..guy stockwell in particular mugged with double takes and eyeball rolling more appropriate for the beverly hillbillies..director marks has to take most of the blame as these actors had no reputation for this..I also noticed that there seemed to be more incidental music than usual,and some rather insipid dialogue..meet me tonight..tonight? in the summer house..the summer house? LOL