Based on a play by John Mortimore (Rumpole of the Bailey). Peter Sellers as a failed attorney assigned the task of defending wife-killer Richard Attenborough.
Attenborough had taken in a male lodger hoping his wife would run away with him and, in flashback, this doesn't seem unreasonable.
The case is pretty open and shut and the lawyer has no real experience. They have no realistic defense and the unrealistic ones aren't funny. You have to remember that the British freely executed people back then. Even if you didn't want the guy walking around free, you didn't necessarily want him hanged.
Something you don't think that much about watching Perry Mason is how many people he no doubt sent to their deaths in prison. It's nice that he got his clients off, but how many people did he kill to do it?
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