Excellent but underrated film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I was enjoying this, but Tivo failed to record the big reveal! I liked the scenes in the club, and the young fans of "Kaitlynn". 1992 fashions are also worth a look. Linda Blair is good as one of the suspects. And Kaitlynn's fiancé (a soap opera actor) comes good as he channels Al Pacino to thwart some Bad Men. I'm from the UK, so I was frustrated at the way many of the actors dropped their voices and mumbled so I missed the dialogue. Had to look up IMDb to find out what the victim was called (Warren Fox? Lorne Hox?). Perhaps the sound quality wasn't terribly good. Another high point - the over-the-top decor in the office of the record company exec. One weird note: the exec, and many of the dodgy or music biz characters, wore tiny, lame pony tails.

***SPOILERS*** Trying to have everything go right for his teenage daughter rock music superstar Kaitlynn Parrish's, Heather McAdam, wedding honcho talent agent to the stars Max Parrish, Ronny Cox, gets the shock of his life when his mentally disturbed former business partner and the groom's Gary Hawke, Adam Storke, uncle Alonzo Hawkes, Beau Starr, burst into the wedding hall and crashed the party making a complete jerk of himself in public. The very disturbed and unpredictable Alonzo, also known as Lou, had been in the state pen for a criminal assault conviction for the last three years! Unknown to Max as well as Alonzo's savagely beaten, by him, niece Hannah, Linda Blair, who's a guest at the wedding Alonzo had been given an early release by the appeals court!Frantically waving an envelope and accusing Max of every crime in the book including embezzling his talent agency Alonzo is immediately belted in the jaw and knocked out cold by one of the wedding security man Dave Tyanan, Michael McGrady,and then taken away unconscious to an outer room away from the wedding ceremony. It's later when Max goes into the room to check on Alonzo's condition he finds him stabbed to death with his daughter,the bride,standing over him with her snow white wedding dress and gloves covered with Alonzo's blood and a bloody knife at her feet.Perry Mason,Raymond Burr, a guest at the wedding and the bride Kaitlynn's favorite uncle gets on the case right away by him and his private secretary, also a wedding guest, Della Street, Barbara Hale, finding a false reporter ID pass on the floor that belonged to a Kaitlynn Parrish groupie Suzy Richards, Merle Kennedy, who tried to crash the wedding party. As things turned out in all this confusion Suzy was hiding in a closet and very possibly saw whoever murdered Alonzo Hawke!The movie starts to get really complicated, if it wasn't complected enough already, with its story going into a number of unrelated incidents involving the late Alonzo's unsavory past in him stealing $250,000 worth of bootleg audio tapes, of Kaitlynn latest album, from the mob. Mistaking Perry's leg man and private investigator Ken Malansky, William R. Moses, for Alonzo almost has him knocked off by the mob who seemed to have not heard or read the latest news reports on Alonzo's murder! That's even after Malansky proved to the mob hit-men, who obviously weren't provided with a photo of Alonzo, that he wasn't the person whom they were after!***SPOILERS*** Things start to look real bad for the accused Kaitlynn Parrish when her father Max is forced to admit in court that he's under investigation in the embezzlement of some $250,000.00 from his talent agency giving his daughter who said in public that she would do anything to keep her father's name from being dragged through the mud by a creep like Alonzo a perfect motive for his murder! Perry uncovers a complected plan of stealing $250,000.00 from Max's talent agency and then having him framed for it! The plan falls apart when one of the conspirators gets a bit too greedy for his own good by grabbing all the loot, after knocking off Alonzo, at the expense of his partner! what Alonzo's killer never expected was that the stolen cash was secretly marked with invisible dye, that's seen under ultraviolet light, that he unknowingly ended up marking himself with. It's later after he got his greedy hands on the money that he ended up cooking his goose when Perry shined the light, ultraviolet light, of truth on him in a hushed up and darkened courtroom!

A really nasty tempered drunken individual in Beau Starr crashes the wedding of his nephew and confronts the father of the bride over some ancient grudges. He gets cold cocked and put to rest on a coach. But later on Starr is found with a knife in his chest and the would be bride, Heather McAdam standing over him.Heather's a reigning pop star like Jessica Simpson and she's marrying her own Nick Lachey in Adam Storke. But there's a whole host of suspects. However she's got one thing in her corner an 'uncle' who's a well known attorney and who never loses a case.This is one of the few times where we get a hint of a relationship with Perry Mason and someone else. This never happened in the hour television series back in the day. Of course he's not a biological uncle, but you can draw your own conclusion as to what happened way back when with Raymond Burr and McAdam's parents, Ronny Cox and Diane Baker.I found this film, one of the weaker Perry Mason stories. Had it not been for the bride and her fame and the fact that she was found with the body, the real motive of the crime would have been apparent from the start and the police in the person of James McEachin would have focused their attention in the right direction.Still I do love my Perry Mason stories so.

Perry Mason is invited to the wedding of his niece, a famous popstar. During the wedding ceremony things are disrupted by the bride's uncle threatening her father. Security overpower him and take him into a side room, but later he is found dead with the bride standing over him. She is arrested as evidence is found that the bride's father, Max Parrish was being investigated for extortion. Perry takes up the case while Ken goes after a young fan who had sneaked into the wedding and may have seen the murderer.Mason films usually suffer when they try to shoe-horn the lawyer into the case rather than just having him being taken on by a client. However this doesn't suffer as bad as some of the other ones, although it does make things a little more difficult than they should be. The personal involvement in the plot makes things a little more complex and awkward rather than upping the emotion (as was the hope I guess). However aside from this it moves along at the usual pace for these films. Malansky's bit is not as good as usual and only the `side-kick' being a soap actor makes it a little amusing, but Mason does make good use of the emotional involvement in his courtroom presence.Burr is good but seems a little at odds having to deliver a more involved performance this time around. Hale has little to do but tries to up the hinted romance by being possessive and such. Moses is good but has less to do. The support cast are interesting with Ronny Cox and Linda Blair being the well-known faces.Overall a passable but not great entry in the series. A good ending that isn't too much of a blue-sky twist and a reasonable plot make for solid fare for those of us who enjoy this type of thing.