Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

1991
7.1| 1h40m| en| More Info
Released: 14 May 1991 Released
Producted By: Viacom Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website:
Synopsis

David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.

... View More
Stream Online

The movie is currently not available onine

Director

Producted By

Viacom Productions

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

All Prime Video Movies and TV Shows. Cancel anytime. Watch Now

Trailers & Images

Reviews

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The made for TV movie "The Case of the Glass Coffin" seems to be the first case that defense attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, handled that he not only won which is like almost 100% of the cases he takes on but was actually an eye witness to!It's when world famous magician David Katz, Peter Scolari, did his flying coffin act at Denver's famous Paramount Theater that when the latch opened to show that no one was in it the coffin girl Kate Ford, Nancy Lee Grahn, suddenly popped out and fell some 30 feet to her death by breaking her neck! As things soon came out it was Kate who blackmailed David in getting her to be the coffin girl which may well have been the reason for him to do her in!Threatening to go public in David having an affair with her on a cold night back in Portland, after having one too many shots of Yukon Jack, Kate has the evidence in her being impregnated by him! Now with both his marriage to his faithful wife Judy, Kim Barden, as well as career in jeopardy David may well have been driven to murder Kate in order to keep her from talking! What ended up in saving David from taking a trip to the Colorado State death house was Terry Weidner, Kate Vernon, who secretly videotaped the entire glass coffin event that in the end proved that David was in fact innocent! ***SPOILERS**** Innocent in him not knowing that he was set up to take the rap by something who was part of the glass coffin act! Someone who had it in for Kate and waited eight years to get the chance to kill her for something she did back in her home town of Hasting when she was then known as Greta Eisner!It's both Perry's legman and human punching bag Ken Malansky, William R.Moses, as well as Terry who tracked down Kate's previous existence as Greta Eiseman and what it had to do with her being murdered as Kate Ford eight years later. Malansky for his part really gets worked over by some local homeboys for his snooping around in Hastings into business that Kate's pop Mr.Henry Eisner, Richard Jury, wants him to keep his nose out of! In the end the truth comes out in what exactly Kate or Greta did back there that had someone go so far as to get a job with David's magic show so that he or she can get their hands on her and put Kate in the local hospital morgue! Something that was covered up back in Hasting and kept from seeing the light of day until Malansky and Terry finally unearthed it!
Thomas Sandman they decide to post a list of "special extras" - I just wanted to inform IMDb that I was the usher at the beginning of the movie. Pretty silly to mention, but hey - that's just 10 seconds of my 15 minutes of fame, and I'm not letting it go unmentioned. I was in Denver when they shot the earlier parts of the episode at the Paramount Theater in Denver, Colorado. Peter Scalari worked very hard on the magic sequences and it was quite entertaining for all who were lucky to be invited to "work" as the audience. Although I never got to see Raymond Burr in action that day (they shot his parts a few days later), he returned to shoot another of his movies I signed up to work on but it never came to see the light of television. I know this makes for quite the biased commentary on my view of the film, but I enjoyed watching every minute. (even all the other ones that I wasn't in.) Cheers! Tommy Sandman
edwagreen Perry is literally up to his old tricks defending a magician accused of murdering one of his workers. What a motive he had. The woman told him that she was pregnant with his child.Naturally, there are others in the cast that can prove to be good suspects as well.Bill Moses, besides being a private investigator as well as an attorney, shows that he can get physical here. The guy is always making it with the chicks. However, he actually talks in an intelligent fashion.I was able to figure out who the real killers were right away. The killer and his cohort looked more like father and daughter rather than husband and wife. You just had to put the pieces together.The adoption scene was lovely at the end but was it really necessary to put in? Love should keep this couple together period.
rew3211 This babe has got to be the most appealing woman I have seen anywhere in a long time. I think she is just absolutely wonderful on the Matlock series. Thank goodness they are still running Matlock.. So wholesome, so exciting, such interesting stories.