For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent adaptation.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The Perry Mason series of mysteries from the 1930s are some of the best mysteries one could watch. One needs to pay attention to details throughout the film to follow the twists in the plot. The movies closely follow the Erle Stanley Gardner mystery novels on which they are based. The Case of the Lucky Legs holds one's interest from beginning to end as Perry Mason cleverly addresses the case of a murder committed by someone involved in a beauty contest in which girls are judged solely on the looks of their legs. Warren William is a pleasure to watch as Perry Mason, and Genevieve Tobin expertly plays Perry's faithful, flirty and efficient secretary, Della Street. The witty repartee between Perry Mason and Della Street is similar to the banter between Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man series. There are so many wisecracks and humor in this offering, the movie is categorized equally as a comedy as well as a mystery. If you are a fan of old, intriguing mysteries, you won't be disappointed with this gem.

The best portrayer of Perry Mason and the best Della Street in the same movie...Mason is portrayed in the same manner as in Gardener's books. He's playful, shrewd, irreverent and kind of a jackass. Definitely NOT the stodgy inert lump of good looks that Raymond Burr was.The man gets in people's personal space, jokes, tickles and even raids refrigerators of the people he's questioning. He is, for want of a better word, "wacky".The plot is kind of fun: A con man is killed and the main suspects are everybody. Mason, as usual, keeps one step behind the murderer and two ahead of the police. One of the cops is played by Barton MacLaine, a standard in thirties detective movies, later to become General Peterson on I Dream of Jeanie...

THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS (1935) is a delightful entry into the Warren William "Perry Mason" series. It's a breezy murder-mystery that's full of silliness. William is great as the unorthodox attorney and Genevieve Tobin is simply wonderful as his trusty secretary Della Street.William brings levity to the Perry Mason character, pulling the strings and solving the case while having a blast. Tobin is a comedic revelation in her turn as Della Street. Her performance is flirty and witty and daffy and hilarious as she handles Mason's office while he's away. Tobin is a great comedienne, and lovely, too. (She calls to mind that other great comedienne, Joan Blondell. Something around the eyes, I think.) Each "Perry Mason" film brought a new actress to play Della Street opposite Warren William, but Tobin really makes an impression in this entry.The mystery starts with a "Lucky Legs" competition racket and soon involves a murder and several suspects. Pretty young Warner Bros. contract player Patricia Ellis plays the latest winner of the "nicest legs" scam, who (along with doctor boyfriend Lyle Talbot) might be the murderer in question. Perry Mason is on the case, along with his associate on the street, Spudsy (Allen Jenkins). The supporting cast also includes familiar faces like Porter Hall, Olin Howland, Barton MacLane, and Henry O'Neill.With the plot built around a "nicest legs" competition, you can bet there'll be a lot of gams on display and Warner Bros. does not disappoint. The opening scene at the Lucky Legs finals features a parade of anonymous shapely limbs. Perry Mason is even shown Ellis's neck-down contest submission photo, allowing him to later identify the girl by her $1000 legs.THE CASE OF THE LUCKY LEGS is a quick murder-mystery programmer, but the writing and the performances are so much fun that I couldn't help but give the movie a 7/10.

Case of the Lucky Legs, The (1935) ** (out of 4) Third film in Warner's series has Perry Mason (Warren William) investigating a racket where a man holds a hot legs contest but instead of paying the winner the money he runs out of town. Mason is able to track him down but it's too late because someone has murdered him so Mason must try to crack the case and save his client. Sadly William spends a lot of time playing William and that means he's back to whistling at women and tracking them down. There's way too much female flirting going on and this takes away from the mystery, which isn't too good to begin with. The supporting cast doesn't offer up any good performances except for Allen Jenkins but he doesn't have too much to do. The film gets a tad bit slugish towards the end but the solving of the case makes for some slight entertainment. Certainly the weakest of the first three films.