A bedridden eccentric millionaire, anticipating his own murder, hires Mason to help him rewrite his will, and the lawyer ends up defending the caretaker's cat..

If you have an hour and ten minutes to spare tonight and love old-school detective yarns where people wear giant trousers, The Case of the Black Cat is absolutely worth your time.Cozy mystery fans will eat this up. But if you can't stand old movies where characters explain the entire plot in a rushed three-minute court...


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"If you have an hour and ten minutes to spare tonight and love old-school detective yarns where people wear giant trousers, The Case of the Black Cat is absolutely worth your time.Cozy mystery fans will eat this up. But if you can't stand old movies where characters explain the entire plot in a rushed three-minute courtroom scene at the end, you should probably skip it.This isn't your grandma's Raymond Burr Perry Mason. Here, Perry is played by Ricardo Cortez, who looks like he just stepped out o..."

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