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A woman named Eva Griffin enters the law office of Perry Mason (Warren William). She seeks Perry's Mason's help in suppressing an embarrasing story that a scandal sheet is about to print, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George Belter is in charge of the paper. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.

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A woman named Eva Griffin enters the law office of Perry Mason (Warren William). She seeks Perry's Mason's help in suppressing an embarrasing embarrassing story that a scandal sheet is about to print, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George Belter is in charge of the paper. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.









* PlotAllergy: In the 1936 adaptation, various people appear to catch the flu during the course of the investigation, but it turns out to be caused by a fur wrap.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The 1936 adaptation features a marriage between Perry and Della, with strife about balancing work and personal time being brought up throughout. This marriage is not present in the other adaptations, nor is it mentioned in other Perry Mason films released around that time.

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* PlotAllergy: In the 1936 adaptation, various people appear to catch the flu during the course of the investigation, but it turns out to be caused by a fur wrap.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The 1936 adaptation features a marriage between Perry and Della, with strife about balancing work and personal time being brought up throughout. This marriage is not present in the other adaptations, nor is it mentioned in other Perry Mason films released around that time.
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''The Case of the Velvet Claws'' is a story in the Perry Mason franchise. Originally, it was the first of the Perry Mason novels from Erle Stanley Gardner, written in 1933. In 1936, it became the fourth Perry Mason story to receive a film adaptation, starring Warren William as Perry Mason. The story was adapted again in 1963, with Raymond Burr as Perry Mason.

Though aspects of the story vary in each adaptation, there are key story beats that remain the same: a woman named Eva Griffin seeks Perry's Mason's help with a scandal, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George Belter is in charge of the paper publishing it. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.

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''The Case of the Velvet Claws'' is a story in the Perry Mason franchise. Originally, it was the first 1936 film directed by William Clemens. It's an adaptation of the Perry Mason novels from Erle Stanley Gardner, written in 1933. In 1936, it became the fourth Perry Mason story to receive a film adaptation, starring Warren William as Perry Mason. The story was adapted again in 1963, with Raymond Burr as Perry Mason.

Though aspects of the story vary in each adaptation, there are key story beats that remain the same: a
Gardner Franchise/PerryMason novel, ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheVelvetClaws''.

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woman named Eva Griffin enters the law office of Perry Mason (Warren William). She seeks Perry's Mason's help with in suppressing an embarrasing story that a scandal, scandal sheet is about to print, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George Belter is in charge of the paper publishing it.paper. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.
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Fourth Perry Mason movie, also the fourth and last time Warren William played Perry Mason. The story was adapted again into a 1963 episode of the Raymond Burr ''Perry Mason'' series.

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Though aspects of the story vary in each adaptation, there are key story beats that remain the same: a woman named Eva Belter seeks Perry's Mason's help with a scandal, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George is in charge of the paper publishing it. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.

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Though aspects of the story vary in each adaptation, there are key story beats that remain the same: a woman named Eva Belter Griffin seeks Perry's Mason's help with a scandal, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George Belter is in charge of the paper publishing it. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.



* AndTheAdventureContinues: The 1936 adaptation ends with Perry promising Della not to let anything else interrupt their honeymoon...only for a man to ask a taxi to go to the lodge they planned on visiting next.



* RomanticPlotTumor: The 1936 adaptation features a marriage between Perry and Della, with strife about balancing work and personal time being brought up throughout. This relationship is not present in the other adaptations, nor is it mentioned in other Perry Mason films released around that time.

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* PlotAllergy: In the 1936 adaptation, various people appear to catch the flu during the course of the investigation, but it turns out to be caused by a fur wrap.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The 1936 adaptation features a marriage between Perry and Della, with strife about balancing work and personal time being brought up throughout. This relationship marriage is not present in the other adaptations, nor is it mentioned in other Perry Mason films released around that time.
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''The Case of the Velvet Claws'' is a story in the Perry Mason franchise. Originally, it was the first of the Perry Mason novels from Erle Stanley Gardner, written in 1933. In 1936, it became the fourth Perry Mason story to receive a film adaptation, starring Warren William as Perry Mason. The story was adapted again in 1963, with Raymond Burr as Perry Mason.

Though aspects of the story vary in each adaptation, there are key story beats that remain the same: a woman named Eva Belter seeks Perry's Mason's help with a scandal, but does not immediately reveal that her husband George is in charge of the paper publishing it. When George later ends up murdered, Eva accuses Mason of the crime. Additionally, there is some dispute about inheritance between Eva and George's nephew Carl, who is somehow being pressured by George's housekeeper Ms. Vickers into marrying her daughter Norma.

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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Ms. Vickers saw Carl committing murder, and uses it as leverage to force him into marrying Norma]].
* BusmansHoliday: The 1936 adaptation has Perry taking on the case during his honeymoon with Della.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: [[spoiler:When Carl asked George about Eva's murder attempt, the uncle only realizes after getting into the same position as before that he's about to be killed]].
* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler:Carl murdered George after learning he's supposed to be the sole inheritor of his uncle's possessions]].
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Eva's shot did not kill George, but she fled before checking his body]].
* RomanticPlotTumor: The 1936 adaptation features a marriage between Perry and Della, with strife about balancing work and personal time being brought up throughout. This relationship is not present in the other adaptations, nor is it mentioned in other Perry Mason films released around that time.

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