Pre-Perry Burr

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PLEASE MURDER ME!-1956-A DA Graig Carson (pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr) tells his friend Joe Leeds (Dick Foran) that he's in love with Joe's wife, Myra (Angela Lansbury) and wants him to grant her a divorce. Joe rather nonchalantly tells Carson he'll have to think about it. A few days later Joe goes home. He seems angry. Before you know it, Joe is dead, shot by Myra who claims it was self-defense. She's arrested and put on trial, defended by Carson. 

Later after Carson gets Myra off, he reads a letter Joe wrote saying Myra is no good and is in love with another man, not Carson. He meets the guy, an artist (director/actor Lamont Johnson) and learns they are in love and are going to be married. When Carson threatens to expose her, Myra kills him but he gets some post death revenge via his tape recorder in this entertaining film noir directed by Peter Godfrey (THE TWO MRS, CARROLLS (1944)). Also with John Dehner, Denver Pyle, Madge Blake and Russell Thorson. Music by Albert Glasser. Burr was also in the US edited version of GODZILLA the same year.

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