Perry Mason: The Case of the Dangerous Dowager (1959)
Wealthy widow Matilda Benson (Kathryn Givney) rules over her children like a dowager empress, threatening to cut them out of her will for the slightest infraction. Even so, the children can't help but get involved with crooked gambler Danny Barker (Robert Strauss), who ends up murdered after threatening to bring scandal upon the Benson family. It is Sylvia Benson (Patricia Cutts) whom the police arrest for the crime, and it is Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) who rushes to Sylvia's defense. This episode is based on a 1937 novel by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner, which was previously adapted as the 1940 theatrical film Granny Get Your Gun--with Perry Mason written out of the story! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Buzz Kulik
Synopsis of Perry Mason: The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
Wealthy widow Matilda Benson (Kathryn Givney) rules over her children like a dowager empress, threatening to cut them out of her will for the slightest infraction. Even so, the children can't help but get involved with crooked gambler Danny Barker (Robert Strauss), who ends up murdered after threatening to bring scandal upon the Benson family. It is Sylvia Benson (Patricia Cutts) whom the police arrest for the crime, and it is Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) who rushes to Sylvia's defense. This episode is based on a 1937 novel by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner, which was previously adapted as the 1940 theatrical film Granny Get Your Gun--with Perry Mason written out of the story! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Perry Mason: The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
- Barry Atwater - Robert Benson
- Barry Brooks - Policeman
- Perry Cook - Old Man
- Patricia Cutts - Sylvia Benson Oxman
- Joey Faye - Walter Cobb
- Leo Gordon - Charles Duncan
- Robert Strauss - Danny Barker
- Shirley Monticue - Maid
- Gene Blakely - Frank Oxman
- King Calder - Dr. Ralph Caldwell
- Ellen Corby - Old Lady Gambler
- Michael Dante - Arthur Manning
- Kathryn Givney - Matilda Benson
- George E. Stone - Court Clerk
- Frederic Worlock - Judge
- Director(s):
- Buzz Kulik
- Writer(s):
- Milton Krims
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