Buddy Ochoa Movies
- 1976
This TV movie delves into the unhappy later years of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (here played by Jason Miller). Broke and virtually written-out by the late 1930s, Fitzgerald is compelled to accept screenwriting work in Tinseltown where he is frustrated that his work is extensively rewritten and revised -- if not rejected altogether. On a personal level, Fitzgerald must deal with his wife Zelda (Tuesday Weld), now sequestered in a North Carolina mental institution. Seeking some reason for living, Fitzgerald inaugurates an affair with Hollywood columnist Sheila Graham (Julia Foster). Not all that incisive, and saddled with an unsympathetic drunkard as a central character, F. Scott Fitzgerald is still superior to Hollywood's previous version of the Fitzgerald/Graham romance, Beloved Infidel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1963
A young lady calling herself Eva Griffin (Patricia Barry) calls upon Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) hoping that he will save her from a nasty scandal. Eva is really a married woman named Eva Belter, and she was photographed leaving a local gambling joint with prominent politician Harrison Burke (James Philbrook). If the photo is published in the lurid scandal sheet "Spicy Bits", Burke will be ruined and Eva will face a violent reprisal from her husband George (Richard Webb). Having an old score to settle with "Spicy Bits", Perry agrees to take Eva's case--only to find himself a murder suspect when Eva's husband George is shot dead! This episode is based on the very first "Perry Mason" novel written by Erle Stanley Gardner, which was previously adapted as a theatrical film in 1935 with Warren William as Mason (in the original film, the events took place while Perry was on his honeymoon with his new bride--Della Street!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
