Comedy takes over the minute the curtain rises and all you see are legs. No faces, just legs. This is a beauty pageant for gams, and nobody cares what the face looks like. I imagined the curtain rising on the winner of the best legs contest to find a face that only their mother could love. This contest is obviously fixed as the man with the money disappears and it is up to Perry Mason to find him.
While there is a murder, that is inconsequential to the brittle dialog, especially the rapport between Mason (Warren William) and his hard-working secretary Della Street (Genevieve Tobin), as well as Mason's assistant "Spudsy" (Allen Jenkins) and his tough-talking wife (Mary Treen). There's the typical line-up of an abundance of suspects, mostly red herrings, but all suspicious. Forget about all of that and just enjoy it for the witty banter. That's where the entertainment lies. Everything else is inconsequential.
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