Watch Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 12: The Case of the Brazen Bequest Online

	IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 from votes
	Release: 1961 / Perry Mason / Season 5 / Episode 12
	Genre: Crime \| Drama \| Mystery
	Director: Arthur Marks
	Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper
	Synopsis: The new president of Euclid College, Dr. Charles Cromwell, is doing his best to ensure that a major donor to the college isn't offended in any way. James Vardon is going to receive an honorary degree at the upcoming commencement exercises and has promised the college a donation of $1 million. As a result, Cromwell is walking on egg shells and pretty well letting Vardon's assistant Robert Haskell, walk all over him. Cromwell is shocked when a woman arrives at he college in a taxi looking for someone named Curly. She is literally falling down drunk and the taxi whisks her away. She's soon in the hospital and it's revealed that Cromwell is the old friend she is looking for. He had met her long ago and she has left him a small bequest in her will. He visits Perry Mason worried that the will may become public and the impact it would have if Vardon or his assistant should ever hear about it. When Haskell is found dead however, Cromwell is charged with murder.