***SPOILERS*** A bit over-plotted and lukewarm Perry Mason mystery movie despite an all-star cast of talk show hosts that includes Rigis Filbin as 98.4 KCDM around the clock radio talk show owner Winslow Keene and Gordon Libby as the super patriot pro-gun and survivalist advocate Clark Hunter as well as Montel William as former football great as well as now sport talk show know it all the recently retired, because or injuries, Boomer Kelly.
It turns out that on the air pseudo KCDM psychiatrist Sheila Carlin, Marielle Hartley, has been getting obscene phone calls over the last few weeks that escalated with her house being broken into and a mannequin left hanging in the middle of her living-room! Dr.Carlin gets in touch with her close friend Della Street, Barbara Hale, Perry Mason's, Raymound Barr, private secretary to help her out but Perry as well as the local police tell her that there's really nothing that they can do about it.
Shelia feels that her boss at KCDM Winslow Keene is behind all this in that he's been trying like hell to make her on the air life miserable by planning to change her daytime hours on the station into a 14 hour staggered schedule ending up in the wee hours, from midnight to 3:00 am in the morning. And whats worst of all not even being compensated, by working 14 instead of 3 hours a day, in pay for it! As it turns out Keene is not only about to change Shelia's hours on the station but the entire crew of talk show hosts as well by making KCDM and all day music station! A few days later after his big announcement Keene gets a late night delivery of flowers for what turned out to be hired hit-man Paul Turner, Eugene Butler, who in among other things he had in for him, like Keene not giving him a tip, ends up blowing Keene away!
Turner by leaving the murder scene and being identified in driving away in her car with the personal license plate "Shink" on it has a shocked and confused Shelia picked up by the police for Winslow Keene's murder. It also becomes obvious that a call that Shelia got on her show from Keene the night of his murder was in fact planted by her murderer in it being recorded, not live, by the person who murdered him planning to frame Shelia! That in making it look like she used it, the fake on the air phone call, as an alibi in not being at Keene's home the moment that he was killed! The call came in at 1.15 am three hours after Keene was actually killed at 10.00 pm that evening!
It should have been a no-brainer for the police and the court for them to see that Shelia was in fact set up but instead they went full-tilt in getting her arrested and indited in Keene's murder by overlooking a number of strong clues that contradicted her guilt! That all made the D.A's case so full of holes against Shelia that it was bound to be thrown out of court when, with the assistant of Perry Mason, they were to come to the surface.
With Keene's killer Paul Turner now out on the lamb he begins to get a bit edgy when the person who hired him doesn't come up with the $10,000.00 he was to pay him in whacking Keene. We have Perry who's now a bit too old to check out suspects going around town giving out subpoenas with the help of his leg man and assistant the take it on the chin Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, running down a number of leads that lead him straight to Turner at his moonlighting job as a neighborhood pimp!
***SPOILERS**** Getting the help of a Denver lady undercover vice cop Alex Patcher, Cathy Paxton, posing as a hooker Malansky tracks down Turner through his #1 lady of the evening Doris Lester,Tracy Ellis, who also happened to be a classmate of Alex in high-school.
Turner by having his cover blown and about to be arrested by the police is now more then determined to take out, gangland style, the person who hired him as well as welched on paying him his fee of $10,000.00 for knocking off Winslow Keene. And it's that person who's just about to take the stand in the Keene murder case when a crazed and completely out of control Turner, disguised as a plumber, opened fire in the crowded court-room that has him give himself away by reorganizing Turner and thus, in preventing from being shot, making a quick exit out of the place!
It turns out that on the air pseudo KCDM psychiatrist Sheila Carlin, Marielle Hartley, has been getting obscene phone calls over the last few weeks that escalated with her house being broken into and a mannequin left hanging in the middle of her living-room! Dr.Carlin gets in touch with her close friend Della Street, Barbara Hale, Perry Mason's, Raymound Barr, private secretary to help her out but Perry as well as the local police tell her that there's really nothing that they can do about it.
Shelia feels that her boss at KCDM Winslow Keene is behind all this in that he's been trying like hell to make her on the air life miserable by planning to change her daytime hours on the station into a 14 hour staggered schedule ending up in the wee hours, from midnight to 3:00 am in the morning. And whats worst of all not even being compensated, by working 14 instead of 3 hours a day, in pay for it! As it turns out Keene is not only about to change Shelia's hours on the station but the entire crew of talk show hosts as well by making KCDM and all day music station! A few days later after his big announcement Keene gets a late night delivery of flowers for what turned out to be hired hit-man Paul Turner, Eugene Butler, who in among other things he had in for him, like Keene not giving him a tip, ends up blowing Keene away!
Turner by leaving the murder scene and being identified in driving away in her car with the personal license plate "Shink" on it has a shocked and confused Shelia picked up by the police for Winslow Keene's murder. It also becomes obvious that a call that Shelia got on her show from Keene the night of his murder was in fact planted by her murderer in it being recorded, not live, by the person who murdered him planning to frame Shelia! That in making it look like she used it, the fake on the air phone call, as an alibi in not being at Keene's home the moment that he was killed! The call came in at 1.15 am three hours after Keene was actually killed at 10.00 pm that evening!
It should have been a no-brainer for the police and the court for them to see that Shelia was in fact set up but instead they went full-tilt in getting her arrested and indited in Keene's murder by overlooking a number of strong clues that contradicted her guilt! That all made the D.A's case so full of holes against Shelia that it was bound to be thrown out of court when, with the assistant of Perry Mason, they were to come to the surface.
With Keene's killer Paul Turner now out on the lamb he begins to get a bit edgy when the person who hired him doesn't come up with the $10,000.00 he was to pay him in whacking Keene. We have Perry who's now a bit too old to check out suspects going around town giving out subpoenas with the help of his leg man and assistant the take it on the chin Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, running down a number of leads that lead him straight to Turner at his moonlighting job as a neighborhood pimp!
***SPOILERS**** Getting the help of a Denver lady undercover vice cop Alex Patcher, Cathy Paxton, posing as a hooker Malansky tracks down Turner through his #1 lady of the evening Doris Lester,Tracy Ellis, who also happened to be a classmate of Alex in high-school.
Turner by having his cover blown and about to be arrested by the police is now more then determined to take out, gangland style, the person who hired him as well as welched on paying him his fee of $10,000.00 for knocking off Winslow Keene. And it's that person who's just about to take the stand in the Keene murder case when a crazed and completely out of control Turner, disguised as a plumber, opened fire in the crowded court-room that has him give himself away by reorganizing Turner and thus, in preventing from being shot, making a quick exit out of the place!