James McEachin
Biography: James McEachin was born on May 20, 1930 in Rennert, North Carolina. At the age of 18 he joined the US Armed Forces and served in the Korean War earning many medals of valor to include the Purple Heart and Silver Star. After leaving the military he spent time as a policeman and then fireman before moving to California and becoming a record producer. After a short stint in the music industry McEachin went into acting and spent many years in film and television. Not yet content he took time away from acting to become an award-winning author and maker of audio books. In 2005 McEachin was appointed as a US Army Reserve Ambassador and spends his free time speaking to soldiers, veterans and America. In late 2006 he produced the film-short Old Glory, a film short for the soldier, veteran and patriot in us all. In 2008 McEachin opened his one-man play, Above the Call; Beyond the Duty at the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC and his since played Casa Manana, Ft. Worth, TX, Brentwood Theater, Los Angeles, CA, and Merle Reskin Theatre, Chicago, IL. McEachin is married with three grown children and resides in So Cal.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 20, 1930
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
2010
1984-12-06
2010
Overview: While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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Fuzz
1972-07-14
Fuzz
Overview: Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-14
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Buck and the Preacher
1972-03-17
Buck and the Preacher
Overview: A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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The Dead Don't Die
1975-01-14
The Dead Don't Die
Overview: In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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Play Misty for Me
1971-10-01
Play Misty for Me
Overview: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972-12-02
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972-06-12
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Overview: A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been badly injured and claims to have lost his memory entirely. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between investigator Tuxan, the mystery intruder Welles and the people who sent him on the mission.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-12
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Allison Sydney Harrison
1983-08-19
Allison Sydney Harrison
Overview: The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
1990-12-23
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
Overview: The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town eccentric (Mulligan) and confides in him that he is from another planet.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972-01-30
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Overview: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-30
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The Alpha Caper
1973-10-06
The Alpha Caper
Overview: A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-06
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That Certain Summer
1972-11-01
That Certain Summer
Overview: The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Deadlock
1969-02-22
Deadlock
Overview: The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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Coogan's Bluff
1968-10-02
Coogan's Bluff
Overview: Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971-01-11
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Overview: D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-11
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O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971-04-02
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Overview: Suddenly widowed by an accident, a deputy sheriff from the Midwest becomes a customs agent and cracks a narcotics ring. Pilot movie for the series "O'Hara, U.S. Treasury."
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Short Walk to Daylight
1972-10-24
Short Walk to Daylight
Overview: Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-24
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Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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True Grit
1969-06-11
True Grit
Overview: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Gridlock
1980-10-02
Gridlock
Overview: A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Sworn to Vengeance
1993-03-22
Sworn to Vengeance
Overview: 3 kids have been brutally murdered. Sergeant Stewart gets the job investigating this macabre case. He is very determined to solve the case and he even listens to a woman that had a vision about the murders.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-22
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If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968-10-08
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Overview: James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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The Undefeated
1969-10-04
The Undefeated
Overview: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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The Neon Ceiling
1971-02-08
The Neon Ceiling
Overview: A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968-06-19
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Overview: When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-19
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Honeyboy
1982-10-17
Honeyboy
Overview: Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not all it's cracked up to be when he loses sight of his goals. He becomes romantically involved with his attractive publicist, and then he has to prove himself in the ring after learning that his biggest victory was rigged by his shady, mob-connected, promoters.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-17
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Lawman Without a Gun
1979-05-30
Lawman Without a Gun
Overview: During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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The Black Klansman
1966-06-01
The Black Klansman
Overview: After his daughter is killed by the KKK, a black man seeks revenge by passing as white and becoming a Klansman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Samurai
1979-04-30
Samurai
Overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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Uptight
1968-12-28
Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Every Which Way but Loose
1978-12-16
Every Which Way but Loose
Overview: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
1986-05-29
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Overview: A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-29
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
1987-11-15
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Overview: Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
1988-02-28
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Overview: Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-28
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The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970-09-17
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Overview: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Double Exposure
1994-04-16
Double Exposure
Overview: White collar crime, a crooked PI and a top notch homicide forensics team come together in this low-budget erotic thriller about a wife killed while in a hotel room with her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-16
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1989-04-09
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Overview: A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-09
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Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
1989-11-09
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
Overview: A hockey player of friend of Ken Malansky's is accused of murdering a team owner. Perry takes the case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990-01-21
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
Overview: The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-21
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990-05-20
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Overview: Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-20
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
1991-01-06
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
Overview: Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled. Mostly everybody hates Brett as Brett knows all the station workers secrets. He has also written a memo insulting all of the main station players - Vic St. John - the station manager, Twyla Cooper - the producer, Chuck Gilmore - the sports reporter, Gary Slate - the weatherman, Cassie Woodfield - the reporter and Gillian Pope. Brett is shot dead with Gillian's gun and therefore is arrested for the crime. Gillian calls in Perry, Della and Ken to investigate. As Della and Perry set out to solve the mystery, Ken gets close to Cassie but she is a suspect and when it appears that somebody is trying to kill her, the mystery deepens..
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-06
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991-05-14
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
1992-03-01
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
Overview: A painter, believed to be dead, returns to make allegations that a gallery owner is selling counterfeits of his work. Later, the artist is murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992-05-05
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
Overview: Sleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and embarrasses several very prominent women. One of them, actress Roxanne Shield, loses her composure during an interview and winds up making a televised death threat. Of course, when Ted is murdered, she is arrested. Witnesses claim they saw Roxanne outside his apartment that night and police later find the murder weapon in her car. Renowned defence attorney Perry Mason accepts the challenge of defending her in court.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-05
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994-05-10
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Overview: A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-10
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993-12-17
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Overview: Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who wants to shoot a photo featuring his former models. The tricky thing is that all of his former models are also his former wives. But Dee knows Anthony can convince them to do it which he does. And David shoots them. Later Dee catches David it what appears to be in an inappropriate situation with his assistant. They have an argument and she leaves. Later David is found dead and she's arrested and Anthony defends her. And he suspects it could have been one of the wives
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-17
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1992-10-30
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Overview: Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this is a case for Perry Mason.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993-02-19
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Overview: The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream. She's later killed and the formula missing. Her husband is arrested and Perry defends him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-19
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995-04-10
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Overview: Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
1993-05-21
Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
Overview: Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone. On the theory that it could be somebody that she works with at a radio stations she arranges Perry to be interviewed by Winslow Keene who is also the station's owner. Winslow enrages the rest of the talk show hosts on the station by informing them of changes that he is making to their time slots. That night, Winslow is shot by a hit man hired by someone at the station and Sheila is set up for the murder. She calls in Perry and as usual Perry, Della and Ken swing into action to find out who really did it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
1993-11-29
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
Overview: On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she'll 'kill him before she leaves the show', she makes herself the prime suspect when Stratton is murdered by someone poisoning him. As an old friend, Perry Mason comes to the help of Kris and agrees to defend her. Meanwhile Ken goes in search of information with the help of fan of the show.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-29
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Crosscurrent
1971-11-19
Crosscurrent
Overview: Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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The Lawyer
1970-03-10
The Lawyer
Overview: Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968-08-21
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Overview: A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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