Perry Mason: The Case of the Cowardly Lion (1961)
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When a baby gorilla named Toto is stolen from a zoo, curator Tony Osgood (Fred Beir) begins questioning his employees. One of them, a visiting dentist named Dr. Braun (Leslie Bradley), accuses Tony's girlfriend Hilde (Carol Rossen) of stealing Toto. Not long afterward, Braun is found dead in the lion's cage--and once it is determined that lion didn't do it (hence the episode's title), suspicion immediately falls upon Tony. In his efforts to mount Tony's defense, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) unearths several unsavory secrets, among them the fact that the dead man was a bigamist--and that there's a drug-smuggling ring at the center of all the intrigue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Fred Beir - Tony Osgood
- Leslie E. Bradley - Dr. Walther Braun
- Betty Lou Gerson - Trudie Braun
- Paul Langton - Prosecutor Green
- Art Lewis - Immigration Clerk
- Eddie Quillan - Bookkeeper Keller
- Bert Remsen - Lt. White
- O.Z. Whitehead - Harry Beacom
- Paul Birch - Crawford
- Phyllis Coates - Frieda Crawson
- Warren Kemmerling - Boris Zelbowski
- Norman Leavitt - Crime Lab Technician
- Ralph Manza - Dr. Prince
- Bill Quinn - 2nd Judge
- Carol Rossen - Hilde Fursten Braun
- Mack Williams - 1st Judge
- Director(s):
- Arthur Marks
- Writer(s):
- Jonathan Latimer
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