Hibi wrote: ↑Yesterday, 4:34 pm

Right. And why be jealous if Cook was gay? Unless he was to dumb to notice!

I doubt he thought much about Cook one way or the other. He was just
a guy that Tierney could use for his own purposes. As bad as Trevor is,
she kind of blends into the background compared to Tierney.

Fedya wrote: ↑Yesterday, 6:08 pm
Did they stuff twenties down the car's waistband too?

Same word, somewhat different definition.

That was a funny scene! I loved the monster cars Perry drove....... Yeah he liked those old "yachts." Perry had a big carbon footprint and a big footprint all around. Paul often tooled around in a T-Bird. I bet I watch no more than 15 or 20 channels in my DirecTV lineup. They are now requ...

LOL. That one is really bad! (The wannabe rock star). I'm not sure I get FETV. I'll need to check the schedule. Even though the kid is a no talent, the episode is pretty funny. You'll do everything the Clete Hawley way or else. I only get DirecTV. Lately there have been ads for a channel called FCM...

I've seen the color episode on MeTV too, as it's the only channel on which I've ever watched PM. The distributor withheld the color episode from the syndication package for many years, for some reason. I don't get MeTV but I have seen it on FETV. I laugh a bit when Perry comes back with Della to fi...

I think the relationship was more one sided on Cook's part. Tierney used him to clean up his messes. As his reward, Tierney let him worship him. Although there seems to be some homoerotic longing going on, you'd think if Cook ever acted on it, why would Tierney go off on Cook after he left Trevor's...

I think there were a handful of jazz nightclub type episodes. Unsure which one I'm remembering. Yeah, suddenly Perry is on 3 or 4 cable channels now with marathons on wknds on one of them. And starting earlier on weeknights too. Yeah, I just noticed tonight that PM is also on another channel in add...

The first murder points to a variation on the old saying about bringing a knife to a gun fight. If he had a gun he could have shot Tierney with nothing to worry about. Of course it would have been a much shorter movie. Yes, Sam Wilde is one of the most cold-blooded killers in noir and one of the mos...

I think I vaguely remember that episode now, at least that Bobby Troup was in it. (unless he was in another one) I'll watch out for it! :D Yeah, Bobby played the beatnik piano player with the hard to fathom monologues. I think he was in a couple other episodes, maybe the one where James Drury playe...

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Perry Mason strikes again. Who should turn up tonight but Frank Silvera, the killer from
The Killer's Kiss which was just on TCM a few nights ago. And yep, he was the guilty
party in PM too.

The beatnik episode that Andree is referencing is "The Case of the Jaded Joker", in which Big Sleep gal Martha Vickers plays Sheila Hayes. This was from season 2 in 1959. I must have seen it 20 times and it is a hoot. There are a few pot references in this one and as well as two coffee ho...

Guys and Dolls makes the original West Side Story look like a
neo-realist movie.

LMREO!!!!!!! I must've missed that one! I always get a kick out of it, no matter how many times I've seen it. It's at the very end just before the credits. I likely forgot a few words of Tragg's whole beatnik speech. IIRC, Bobby Troup played the beatnik pianist and Frankie Laine was the comic. Beat...