Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

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

7.1

100 min

Cast

Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

Barbara Hale

as Della Street

William Katt

as Paul Drake Jr.

Robert Guillaume

as Harlan Wade

Morgan Brittany

as Marianne Clayman

Eugene Butler

as Nick Moretti

René Enríquez

as Oscar Ortega

George Grizzard

as Dr. Clayman

Wings Hauser

as Capt. James Rivers

Yaphet Kotto

as General Sorenson

Susan Wilder

as Michelle Benti

David Ogden Stiers

as Michael Reston

Ben Slack

as Frank Peterson

Wiley Harker

as Cyril Enright

Dennis Hayden

as The Animal

Philip LeStrange

as Collier Jennings

James McEachin

as Harry Forbes

Pam Ward

as Judge Eleanor Daniels

Ed O'Brien

as Lt. Peter Donahue

Dan Kopper

as Rick Conner

Pat Mahoney

as Colonel Macauley

G. Larry Butler

as Storyteller #1

Keith Williams

as Bar Customer

Bill Higham

as Reporter (uncredited)

Kerrie Keane

as (uncredited)

Victor Morris

as Policeman (uncredited)

Antonino Garcia Tony

as Reporter (uncredited)

Director

Christian I. Nyby II