Movies starring Raymond Burr

Station West (1948)

87 mins Thriller, Western

Take a bunch of actors who had appeared in a bunch of film-noir thrillers and have them play similar characters except place them in the Wild West rather than a damp city street and you end up with "Station West". It is a cur...

Borderline (1950)

88 mins Crime, Drama, Romance

Why is it that any movie which is in black & white and features a crime story with a dangerous gangster has to be called film noir? It is one of my pet hates as if that was the case a lot of movies made before 1960 would be c...

A Place in the Sun (1951)

117 mins Drama, Romance

"A Place in the Sun" is it has to be said an impressive movie with an intelligent story, brilliant performances from Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters and despite it's age is still remarkably engrossing. ...

His Kind of Woman (1951)

120 mins Comedy, Crime, Drama

"His Kind of Woman" starts as one thing, a mysterious thriller, a piece of film-noir but then by the end and with Vincent Price intentionally hamming it up as an actor it borders on being a comedy. For me it doesn't work and ...

The Whip Hand (1951)

82 mins Action , Adventure , Crime

The Whip Hand: a secretive group of men at a lake depleted of fish cause a reporter on holiday to stick his nose in to what is going on...

Horizons West (1952)

81 mins Western

The best thing about "Horizons West" is that director Budd Boetticher knows that the storyline is not that amazing and so delivers a western which trots along at a reasonable pace delivering one dramatic scene after another u...

Rear Window (1954)

112 mins Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

In the 2nd of their 4 movies together James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock give us the fascinating "Rear Window". James Stewart stars as L.B. Jefferies who is confined to his apartment having broken leg, forced to pass time by ...

A Man Alone (1955)

96 mins Western

Ray Milland started his movie career back in 1929 but it wasn't until 1955 that he tried his hand behind the camera making his directing debut with western "A Man Alone". Now "A Man Alone" is not a bad western but it does hav...

Great Day in the Morning (1956)

92 mins Western

Movie Review - Great Day in the Morning (1956) Robert Stack stars as Own Pentecost who finds himself not only torn between two women, Ann Merry Alaine (Virginia Mayo) and Boston Grant (Ruth Roman) but in the minority in a Uni...

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

85 mins Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

It has to be said that "Airplane" is one of the greatest spoof movies ever made, it was completely daft but also amusing and it worked. Sadly "Airplane II: The Sequel" doesn't match up as it ends up rehashing pretty much ever...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986)

100 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986) when Father O'Neil is murdered and Sister Margaret is charged with his murder she finds herself with Perry Mason as her lawyer...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987)

95 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) when a friend of Della's wife is murdered it turns out the woman was once a madam whilst Perry comes to the defence of the accused man...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)

91 mins Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988) Perry Mason takes on the case of Kevin Parks having 18 months earlier been on the panel at the appeals court who rejected his appeal against a murder charge...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988)

95 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988) Perry Mason comes to the aid of a former tennis star who is accused of murdering his wife at the lake where as a teen her twin sister was killed during a kidnapping...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989)

95 mins Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

Having only recently come to be a fan of the "Perry Mason" movies I am far from being an expert but can easily spot the significance of "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson" as it was the movie to introduce as to the c...

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989)

96 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989) Perry Mason comes to the aid of an injured hockey star charged with the murder of a sports team owner...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder (1989)

100 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder (1989) Perry finds himself in theatre land after a detested director is murdered with many having motive for doing the dastardly deed...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter (1990)

100 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

"Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter" is the first Perry Mason I have ever watched and two things immediately come to mind. The first is that as a fan of made for TV movies which feature murder mystery/crime solving...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990)

90 mins Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

As I sat down to watch "Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer" knowing full well I would review it I was already trying to come up with a way to try and write something different. I say that because "Perry Mason: The C...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)

90 mins Crime, Drama, TV Movie

The set up to "Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception" is classic Perry, a man with motive found standing over the dead body and ending up needing Perry Mason's help to prove him innocent. But whilst "Perry Mason: T...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Raymond Burr as one of the principle cast members.