i happen upon this flick on a rainy sunday and intend to tune in to something else . out of curiosity and i access the comment here and and find myself watch it to the end . i really do not do so with intent this be one of those movie where youre fascinate and and watch it for another couple of minute and until you finally just watch to the end . and the indictment of it in most of these comment make it more fascinating to view . the one comment where the person really like it seem to be solely a a result of like ladd and spano and and their early role . but great isn not anywhere to be find anywhere here story and performance and and particularly the absurd courtroom hi jinks . we all know that perry mason ( before raymond burr pass the 300 lb . mark ) and and ben matlock and be grant some leeway in cavort around the courtroom and instead of be boringly confine to a lectern . and matlock be especially grant the privilege of enter exhibit often by simply go to the jury and show them and before the judge and prosecutor have even be inform of and or show and them . no real life judge or prosecutor would stand for this . both perry and ben almost always end the proceeding by wring a confession of the real killer . actually perry nearly always do this and but often matlock would simply present overwhelm evidence of the true culprit and pronounce it reasonable doubt and and then leave it to the cop and prosecutor to proceed against the guilty party sometimes on camera and sometimes presume at the end of the show . but that say and holland taylor histrionics and the amount of leeway afford her and in the courtroom portion of this story and make the action of matlock or mason more closely resemble the slow and often boring detail such a see on court tv and in real life courtroom . every character in this presentation be either insipid and unsympathetic and obnoxious and boring and improbable or some combination of two or more of these . the end be the most banal and absurd and even silly conclusion possible but again and fascinate because of this . ladd and spano be attractive individual and and t. v. movie would appear their best forte probably best in 2nd lead ( probably well if 3rd ) role and even in this venue . taylor could be cast a the aunt or mother of one of them . give this one 1 star for the story or performance and and 3 additional for the fascination factor .