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#219: The Case of a
Place Called Midnight
Original Airdate: 11/12/64

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
This is a most unusual Mason episode. Della and Paul do not appear. There is no defendant, and therefore no trial. Although Perry is in France on other "business," he nevertheless manages to get embroiled in an adventure involving Nazis, hidden treasures, and not one but two murders.

Perry is in Paris when he gets a call from prominent American Frederic Ralston II. Ralston wants Perry to go to Germany and check up on his son, Frederic III. Freddy, who is a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers, has been courting a German singer, Greta Koning, and plans on marrying her. But when Perry arrives in the German lakeside village he is quickly involved in a murder. Freddy is found standing over the dead body of an army captain who was investigating a report of Nazi treasure hidden at the bottom of the lake. But Perry soon learns that the only thing at the bottom of the lake is another body.

Werner ("Hogan's Heroes") Klemperer, who's made a good living playing Nazis and such, appears as Inspector Hurt.

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Cast

Gerald Mohr as Alan Durfee
Harry Townes as Colonel Owens
Robert Emhardt as Frank Appleton
Werner Klemperer as Hurt
Eddie Firestone as Phil Morton
Susanne Cramer as Greta Koning
Fred Vincent as Frederic Ralston
Robert Cornthwaite as Duval
Jim Davis as Joe Farrell
Ivan Triesault as Dr. Kleinman
Eva Soreny as Madame Jurgen
Peter Mamakos as Juan Carlos Ramirez
Monique LeMaire as Stewardess
Peter Hellmann as Max
Jean Bartel as Helga
Will J. White as M.P. Sgt.
Jan Arvan as Swiss Bank Clerk
Werner Reichow as Mechanic
Charles Stroud as Policeman
Ike Ivarson as Swedish Sailor
Ken Willer as Juggler

Trivia Edit

This episode may have been inspired by real events that occurred in 1959 and 1963 involving Nazi loot found in Lake Toplitz. More here and here. Submitted by Steve Fox, 12/26/04.

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