The screenwriter of blade runner.
And he has a major part in this very interesting and relevant Perry Mason episode.
Very relevant to the time it was filmed, in comparison to the real life Kitty Genovese incident in New York.
And very relevant to today's world as well.
This was 1965. The world was rocking and rolling, the Beatles were still around. The Vietnam War was acting up.
And so Perry Mason was the Star Trek of its era. Every season was Rife with episodes steeped in social commentary. Very relevant social commentary which is still relevant to this very day in many cases.
This "case" here, involves the new police Lieutenant Steve Drumm, and his friend David. Played by the guy with the cauliflower ears from the Star Trek episode with the hippies. The guy is actually a brilliant character actor who played nemesis very well, here, he is the defendant, this is one of the first times I ever saw that actor play a nice guy.
This was before he played two evil guys in Star Trek.
But the interesting thing here is the kid "Hamp", would later pen one of the most popular science fiction films of all time and then 40 years later would pen a sequel to that.
Every Perry Mason episode has the defendant, the decedent, and then the actual murderer, which Perry manages to eek a confession out of in most of the cases. As far as I know, there were only three cases where Perry did not manage to reveal the actual murderer.
Perry. Mason scrutinizes every possible "angle", this was back when you were rented an apartment house, you were also renting the furniture and everything else in there. I remember those times, this was very common. This apartment complex was a small community, and as we go through the case and Perry interviews possible murderers, we get to see all kinds of people. In today's world, Hamp would have been a member of a punk rock band. As well as the other guys who were downing "goofballs" aka reds, or downers. And then there were actresses, a book maker, in today's world, this would be a guy with instead of three telephones, he would have three computers serving websites. And then the manager of the apartment who initially is getting around on a wheelchair but then later reveals she can walk just fine, Virginia Gregg, who was in many other perry Mason episodes.
Just like any other normal red blooded American community, heh?
In the end of the episode, Hamp gives us a court room outburst, which rings in our ears: doesn't anybody care? Will not anybody help?
Hopefully this does not happen as much in real life as it used to happen back when this episode was produced.
And he has a major part in this very interesting and relevant Perry Mason episode.
Very relevant to the time it was filmed, in comparison to the real life Kitty Genovese incident in New York.
And very relevant to today's world as well.
This was 1965. The world was rocking and rolling, the Beatles were still around. The Vietnam War was acting up.
And so Perry Mason was the Star Trek of its era. Every season was Rife with episodes steeped in social commentary. Very relevant social commentary which is still relevant to this very day in many cases.
This "case" here, involves the new police Lieutenant Steve Drumm, and his friend David. Played by the guy with the cauliflower ears from the Star Trek episode with the hippies. The guy is actually a brilliant character actor who played nemesis very well, here, he is the defendant, this is one of the first times I ever saw that actor play a nice guy.
This was before he played two evil guys in Star Trek.
But the interesting thing here is the kid "Hamp", would later pen one of the most popular science fiction films of all time and then 40 years later would pen a sequel to that.
Every Perry Mason episode has the defendant, the decedent, and then the actual murderer, which Perry manages to eek a confession out of in most of the cases. As far as I know, there were only three cases where Perry did not manage to reveal the actual murderer.
Perry. Mason scrutinizes every possible "angle", this was back when you were rented an apartment house, you were also renting the furniture and everything else in there. I remember those times, this was very common. This apartment complex was a small community, and as we go through the case and Perry interviews possible murderers, we get to see all kinds of people. In today's world, Hamp would have been a member of a punk rock band. As well as the other guys who were downing "goofballs" aka reds, or downers. And then there were actresses, a book maker, in today's world, this would be a guy with instead of three telephones, he would have three computers serving websites. And then the manager of the apartment who initially is getting around on a wheelchair but then later reveals she can walk just fine, Virginia Gregg, who was in many other perry Mason episodes.
Just like any other normal red blooded American community, heh?
In the end of the episode, Hamp gives us a court room outburst, which rings in our ears: doesn't anybody care? Will not anybody help?
Hopefully this does not happen as much in real life as it used to happen back when this episode was produced.