- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Release: 1990-03-11
- Director: Christian I. Nyby II
- Writers: George Eckstein , Erle Stanley Gardner
- Language: English
- Stars: Raymond Burr , Barbara Hale , William R. Moses , Ian Bannen , Ian McShane , Yvette Mimieux , Terry O’Quinn , Marcy Walker , Teresa Wright (I) (1918–2005) , Paul Freeman (I)
- Runtime: 90 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Perry Mason: Crimini di guerra (Italy) , Perry Mason: El caso del engaño terrible (Spain) , Перри Мейсон: Дело о вынужденном обмане , Perry Mason und der falsche Tote (Germany) , Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception , Perry Mason: The Case of the Paris Paradox (United States of America) , Перри Мейсон: Дело о вынужденном обмане (Russian Federation) , Perry Mason: Desperackie oszustwo (Poland) , Perry Mason: A francia kapcsolat (Hungary) , Perry Mason: Epätoivoinen yritys (Finland) , Perry Mason - Nostalgie Meurtrière (France, French Republic) , Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (United States of America) , Perry Mason e o Caso da Grande Desilusão (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Обман от отчаяния (Russian Federation)
- Plot: American marine, David Berman, manages to get himself transferred to Paris in order to search for a hidden Nazi, Krugman that had killed his grandparents and crippled his mother. He managed to find a witness but just after she talks to David, she is run over and killed. That night, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organisation and told that Krugman is hiding under a new identity of Felix Altmann. David goes to a health spa and meets Altmann but Altmann is shot and David framed for the crime. As a old friend of the family Perry and Ken goes to France to help out but now Perry must not only free David he must find out secrets that have been kept hidden for over 45 years, secrets that certain people are still certainly willing to kill for...
- IMDB:tt0100350
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception Cast · · · ALL
Christian I. Nyby II
Director
Raymond Burr
Perry Mason
Barbara Hale
Della Street
William R. Moses
Ken Malansky
Teresa Wright
(I)
(1918–2005)
Helene Berman
Yvette Mimieux
Danielle Altmann
Ian Bannen
Otto Rosen
Ian McShane
Andre Marchand
Terry O’Quinn
Curt Mitchell
Marcy Walker
Marie Ramsey
Paul Freeman
(I)
Carl Meyerhoff
Mickey Knox
Col. Butler
Tim Ryan
Capt. David Berman
Kim Thomson
Cathy Bramwell
Jeremy Hawk
Felix Altmann
Paul Maxwell
(I)
(1921–1991)
Capt. Calvelli
Richard D. Sharp
Major Fletcher