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TVMovie #5: The Case of the
Sinister Spirit
Original Airdate: 05/24/87
Summary Edit
A horror author is murdered during a meeting that he has called with business associates at a "haunted hotel." Perry's friend is charged with the crime while Paul tracks down a ghost that is trying to scare away a witness, the hotel's assistant manager.
Credits Edit
Opening
Perry Mason
The Case of THE SINISTER SPIRIT
Starring
Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
Barbara Hale as Della Street
William Katt as Paul Drake, Jr.
Guest Stars
Robert Stack as Jordan White
Dwight Schultz as Andrew Lloyd
Kim Delaney as Susan Warrenfield
Dennis Lipscomb as Michael Light
Jack Bannon as Donald Sayer
Leigh Taylor-Young as Maura McGuire
Matthew Faison as David Hall
and David Ogden Stiers as (D.A.) Michael Reston
Music by Dick DeBenedictis
(Original Perry Mason Theme by Fred Steiner)
Director of Photography
Arch Bryant
Art Director
Paul Staheli
Editor
David Solomon
Supervising Producer
Joel Steiger
Produced by Barry Steinberg
Teleplay by Anne Collins
Story by Dean Hargrove & Joel Steiger and Glenn Benest & Timothy Wurtz
Based upon characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner
Directed by Richard Lang
Trailing
Executive Producers
Fred Silverman & Dean Hargrove
Associate Producer
Jeff Peters
Co-Starring
Percy Rodrigues as Dr. Froman
Featuring
Ed O'Brien as a police lieutenant
Burt Douglas as Rich the maintenance man
Richard Jury as the Judge
Michael K. Osborn as Atty. Harold Parsons
Kathryn Christopher
Uncredited Actor
Antonino Garcia Tony as Lawyer
Casting by Reuben Cannon & Associates C.S.A. & Carol Dudley
Unit Production Manager
Barry Steinberg
1st Assitant Director
Jim Weatherill
2nd Assitant Director
Bob Metoyer
Costumes by Ronn Rynhart
Women's Wardrobe
Judith Scheurwater
Make-Up
Dee Sandella & Patti Dallas
Hair Stylists
Judee Guilmette & Brenda Moen
Construction Coordinator
Dean Brown
Stunt Coordinator
Roy E. Harrison
Transportation Coordinator
Robert Benjamin
Set Decorator
Anne Sammons
Property Master
Susan (MacDonald-Peterson) MacDonald-Petersen
Production Sound Mixer
James Emerson
Gaffer
Brad Lipson
Key Grip
Fred Vickeral
Camera Operator
Dan McKinny
1st Camera Assitant
Douglas O'Kane
Script Supervisor
Jeff Glasser
Production Auditor
Norman Webster
Production Coordinator
Kathryn Cole
Production Secretary
Tina Bennett
Legal Advisor
Dennis Smith
Director of Post Production
Brad Blake
Main Title Design
Wayne Fitzgerald
Post Production Supervisor
William S. Kerr
Assistant Editor
Carter DeHaven IV
Production Executive
Donna Colabella
Sound Effects Editorial
Echo Film Services, Inc.
Supervising Sound Editor
Michael Graham
Re-Recording by Modern Sound
Re-Recording Sound Mixers
Chris Haire C.A.S & Doug Davey C.A.S & Jerry Clemans C.A.S
Music Supervisor
Ted Roberts
Music Editor
Stan Jones
© Copyright MCMLXXXVII Viacom Productions, Inc
Executive In Charge of Production Mike Moder
Trivia Edit
To add to our Courthouse Collection: an establishing shot of the El Paso County Courthouse is used, which is the county in which the actual hotel used here (Broadmoor) is located. (So what-in-the-Hell is the same DA we saw in Denver - and New York !! - doing down there ??) Notcom 060622.
Many of the "practical jokes" - an exploding fireplace, a runaway shower - as well as the basic plot - unrepentant people invited to an isolated location - appeared in the movie The Legacy. Notcom 060622.
Comments Edit
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