The Case of the Stuttering Bishop 1937  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel, Linda Perry, Craig Reynolds, Gordon Oliver, Joseph Crehan, Helen MacKellar, Edward McWade, Mira McKinney
Donald Woods takes on the role of Perry Mason in this final, and weakest, entry in the series. A bishop asks Perry to take the case of finding the real heir to a rich man's estate, contending that the current heir may be an impostor. After the rich man is murdered, Perry's job grows more difficult.
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Delinquent Parents 1938 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Helen MacKellar, Morgan Wallace, Terry Walker, Theodore von Eltz, Richard Tucker, Carlyle Moore Jr., Marjorie Reynolds, Harry Hayden, Betty Blythe, Byron Foulger
Following World War I, Edith (Marjorie Reynolds) was dumped by her husband (Carlyle Moore Jr.), and, finding it impossible to raise their baby, Edith placed Carol up for adoption. Years later, Carol (Doris Weston) learns that she was adopted, leaves home, and finds work. But, she gets in trouble with the law, and the court judge set up to handle Carol's case is an older and wiser Edith (Helen MacKellar), her birth mother. By story's end, both Carol and Edith win.
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Two Against the World 1936  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: One Fatal Hour
Director: William C. McGann
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts, Linda Perry, Carlyle Moore Jr., Henry O'Neill, Claire Dodd, Helen MacKellar, Hobart Cavanaugh, Harry Hayden, Robert Middlemass
A radio show uses murder as its theme in this not-too-successful remake of 1931's "Five Star Final."
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| 1. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
2. Delinquent Parents (1938)
3. Two Against the World (1936)
aka: One Fatal Hour
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