***SPOILERS*** Pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr as defense attorney Craig Carlson is tortured by the fact that he's fallen in love with his best friend Joe Leeds', Dick Foran, wife Myra, Angela Lansbry. It was Joe who saved Craig's life during the bloody assault on Iwo Jima by almost ending up, with a Jap bullet in his lung, killed himself! Now Craig has to somehow break the news to Joe that he's been having an affair with his wife and want's him to give her a divorce so he can marry her! Joe for some strange reason is not at all feeling hurt that Myra want's to leave him but is very concerned that it's his best friend Craig that she's got her hooks into. Joe knows what Myra's like and doesn't want Craig to find out about her before it's too late for him!
With Joe showing up at his apartment to talk things over with Myra about their so to be break-up a shot is heard and before you know it Joe's on the floor as dead as a Mayfly in June! With Craig taking on the murder case as Myra's defense attorney he blows the jury away by proving to it's satisfaction that Joe was a violent person capable of murdering his wife who had no choice but to shoot him in self-defense! The biggest surprise,in fact his ace in the hole, in Craig's defense plan was to reveal that he was the other man who Myra was cheating on Joe with! With the jury verdict, Innocent, a forgone conclusion and Craig now free to marry Myra things come up that get Craig's very disturbed in not only his both love and defense of Myra but himself as well! We already see the condition that Craig's in when we first see him in the movie. With him going down to the red light district in town to buy himself a handgun and planning to use it on himself! What we later find out is the person he plans to use it on him is non-other then Myra!
***SPOILERS*** Craig had since found out that Myra was no good from a letter that Joe left but didn't mailed to him. At first thinking it was just sour grapes on Joe's part Craig soon finds out that Myra is already planning to dump him for artist Carl Holt, Lamont Johnson, whom she was already having an affair with while he was her lawyer defending her against murder charges murder in her husband Joe death! Troubled that he helped get a murderess off in the murder of his best friend Joe Leeds Craig could only make things right for himself by setting himself up to be murdered by Myra and having air-tight proof that she in fact murdered him! This elaborate plan is put into action at the very start of the movie "Please Murder Me" by Craig tricking Myra in that he got the goods on her! In that if it doesn't put her behind bars since she can't be tried twice for the same crime, the murder of her husband Joe Leeds, it will at least convince Carl Holt not to marry her. It's now up to Myra to see if she'll go so far as murder to keep the truth about her from getting to Carl and thus facing a possible life sentence if she does.
Unknown to Myra Craig covered all the bases in making sure that there's proof of her murdering him by giving her all the reasons as well as murder weapon to commit the crime. Craig is banking on Myra's sense of invincibility, in already getting away with murder, to go through with his plan. A plan to finally bring her to justice by using himself as bait.
With Joe showing up at his apartment to talk things over with Myra about their so to be break-up a shot is heard and before you know it Joe's on the floor as dead as a Mayfly in June! With Craig taking on the murder case as Myra's defense attorney he blows the jury away by proving to it's satisfaction that Joe was a violent person capable of murdering his wife who had no choice but to shoot him in self-defense! The biggest surprise,in fact his ace in the hole, in Craig's defense plan was to reveal that he was the other man who Myra was cheating on Joe with! With the jury verdict, Innocent, a forgone conclusion and Craig now free to marry Myra things come up that get Craig's very disturbed in not only his both love and defense of Myra but himself as well! We already see the condition that Craig's in when we first see him in the movie. With him going down to the red light district in town to buy himself a handgun and planning to use it on himself! What we later find out is the person he plans to use it on him is non-other then Myra!
***SPOILERS*** Craig had since found out that Myra was no good from a letter that Joe left but didn't mailed to him. At first thinking it was just sour grapes on Joe's part Craig soon finds out that Myra is already planning to dump him for artist Carl Holt, Lamont Johnson, whom she was already having an affair with while he was her lawyer defending her against murder charges murder in her husband Joe death! Troubled that he helped get a murderess off in the murder of his best friend Joe Leeds Craig could only make things right for himself by setting himself up to be murdered by Myra and having air-tight proof that she in fact murdered him! This elaborate plan is put into action at the very start of the movie "Please Murder Me" by Craig tricking Myra in that he got the goods on her! In that if it doesn't put her behind bars since she can't be tried twice for the same crime, the murder of her husband Joe Leeds, it will at least convince Carl Holt not to marry her. It's now up to Myra to see if she'll go so far as murder to keep the truth about her from getting to Carl and thus facing a possible life sentence if she does.
Unknown to Myra Craig covered all the bases in making sure that there's proof of her murdering him by giving her all the reasons as well as murder weapon to commit the crime. Craig is banking on Myra's sense of invincibility, in already getting away with murder, to go through with his plan. A plan to finally bring her to justice by using himself as bait.