So, I Watched Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989, Dir. by Christian I. Nyby II)


Ken (William R, Moses), who is now a lawyer, is representing a hockey player (Jason Beghe) in his contract negotiation with a tyrannical team owner (Pernell Roberts).  When the owner is murdered, the player is arrested and Ken turns to his mentor, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), for help in winning his first murder case.

This was pretty forgettable.  The mystery wasn’t interesting, there weren’t enough suspects to keep me guessing, and even the wrongly accused player was unlikable.  Amy (Alexandra Paul) returned to help out Ken and was annoying as ever.  I don’t understand the Amy/Ken relationship.  They’re in love.  They’re getting married.  But they always act like they hate each other.  Give me sex addict Paul Drake, Jr, any day!  I read that this was Amy’s final appearance in the series and I hope that’s true.

This movie also features some of the worst courtroom dialogue of the series.  Poor Bruce Greenwood plays Pernell Roberts’s son and gets stuck with the worst lines.  Deidre Hall plays Pernell Roberts’s unfaithful wife, which is appropriate because this movie was just a bad soap opera.