Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

1987 · 100 min · ★ 7.4 · Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets

Directed by Christian I. Nyby II · Written by Anthony Spinner

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Raymond Burr Perry Mason
Barbara Hale Della Street
William Katt Paul Drake Jr.
Robert Guillaume Harlan Wade
Morgan Brittany Marianne Clayman
Eugene Butler Nick Moretti
René Enríquez Oscar Ortega
George Grizzard Dr. Clayman
Wings Hauser Capt. James Rivers
Yaphet Kotto General Sorenson
Susan Wilder Michelle Benti
David Ogden Stiers Michael Reston

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