... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4Xn42xQIQ

Raymond Burr in training for the Perry Mason TV show (1957) and he doesn't lose this case either! There's just one little problem ... THE DEADLIEST PACT EVER MADE! You Are Going to Commit Another Murder ... The strangest request you have ever heard makes the most startling picture you have ever seen! Trivia: Raymond Burr, in the lawyer role in this 1956 film rehearses the Perry Mason role he would assume for TV the following year -- except for the ending! 2nd billed Raymond Burr found his career-defining role the following year in Perry Mason (1957). Top-billed Angela Lansbury was to wait 18 years for her greatest fame in the light mystery program Murder, She Wrote (1984). Raymond Burr originally auditioned for the role of Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason (1957), but was chosen for the title role instead. Perry Mason (1957) producer Gail Patrick initially had William Hopper playing Mason, but after Raymond Burr impressed her so much auditioning for Hamilton Burger, she cast Mason in the title role and demoted Hopper to the Paul Drake role. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M536u3Tp8XE

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrbWiwXBU0

Starring: Basil Rathbone Bela Lugosi Anne Gwynne Gale Sondergaard Alan Ladd (bottom billed) Quotes: 56:18 Basil Rathbone: "Unquestionably." Broderick Crawford: "He thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." 48:11 Bela Lugosi: "Here kitty, kitty, kitty." (worth a watch just for that!) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3xvuhc7pg