One Bad Turn

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=1 style="border-right: 1px solid #555555;" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1293" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 206 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="15010ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="15020ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="15030ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#330000 WIDTH="477"><bR> <div> Run For Your Life</div> <div> Starring Ben Gazzara</div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ben Gazzara Episode Guide to Run For Yo">Homepage</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Episode:</div> <div> One Bad Turn</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1285" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#330000 HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="797"><bR> <div>           <A HREF="videos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Video List">List of Videos</A>           <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/"> Paul Bryan's Journal</A> (and Chronology of Events)</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="477"><bR> <div> To contact us, click Homepage link above</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1109" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 172 WIDTH="653"><div> Synopsis:  A casual remark to Deputy Sheriff Potter (Warren Oates) in a small American town leads Paul facing a certain 15-year prison sentence. With Anne Helm as Molly Pierce, Bert Freed as Sheriff Jed Parsons, Strother Martin as Holly Amberton, Michael Mikler as Link Slocum, Walter Brooke as  Richard PhillipsJon Lormer as Judge Wallace Barnes, Norman Leavitt as  Gas Station Attendant, Monty Whitney as Linus, Steve Cory as Tate, Vince Howard as the 1st Officer</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Episode 77</div> <div> Season 3 - #17</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> January  10, 1968</div> <div> Teleplay by Paul Mason</div> <div> Story by John Thomas James (Roy Huggins)</div> <div> Directed by Ben Gazzara</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> SEE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS OF ENTIRE CAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/5_10september66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/5_10september66.h"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1179" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 6188 ><NOBR><div> Creative Team</div> <bR> <div> Producer</div> <div>      Robert Hamner</div> <div> Supervising Producer</div> <div>      Jo Swerling Jr.</div> <div> Associate Producer</div> <div>      Steve Heilpern</div> <div> Music</div> <div>      Pete Rugolo</div> <div> Director of Photography</div> <div>     Walter Strenge A.S.C.</div> <div> Art Director</div> <div>      Henry Larreco</div> <div> Film Editor</div> <div>      Richard Bracken</div> <div> Unit Manager</div> <div>      Donald Baer</div> <div> Assistant Director</div> <div>      John C. 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HREF="exchange.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Exchange">The Exchange</A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="819" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1504902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Monty Whitney, Warren Oates and Steve Cory in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The deputy knocks two boys heads together</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot</div> <bR> <div> While filling up his tank at a service station in rural America, Paul is disturbed to observe two sheriff's deputies being violent with a couple of youths who are suspected of stealing a wallet.</div> <bR> <div> He casually and gently remarks, “now look, officer, if you think they're guilty, arrest them. Banging their heads together isn't going to get you anywhere.”</div> <bR> <div> Deputy Potter suddenly turns his attention from the boys to Paul.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1505902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Warren Oates in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Deputy Potter accuses Paul of interfering with an arrest</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He accuses him of interfering with an arresting officer, and despite Paul's protests, takes him along with the two suspects to the sheriff's office.</div> <bR> <div> When they get there, it turns out that the wallet had merely been lost by the owner, and was meantime found under his table at the restaurant where the suspects had been seen hassling him.</div> <bR> <div> Sheriff Parsons points out to the youths that their general behavior had made the police go after them, and they should think about how they carry on in the future.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1506902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed, Ben Gazzara and Warren Oates in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Potter goes tumbling when he tries to hit Paul</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Then he turns to Paul with a much less charitable attitude.</div> <bR> <div> Deputy Potter, who turned on Paul at the service station, repeats the accusation about interfering with an arrest, and when Paul shouts, “you're a liar,” Potter goes to strike him, but he ducks and hits back, causing Potter to nearly land on the floor, to the total mirth of the other officers, most especially Sheriff Parsons.</div> <bR> <div> But when his laughter dies down, the sheriff tells an incredulous Paul that he is under arrest. He is then frisked and put in a cell.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1507902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Michael Mikler in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul suggests they plan to kill Peralta</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Later, Potter goes to Paul's cell with a truncheon, and in vengeance for the way he was made a laughing stock with his colleagues when he'd earlier tried to strike Paul, Potter begins beating him mercilessly.</div> <bR> <div> Eventually, Paul manages to retaliate, and even get the upper hand, to the point where Paul ends up hitting Potter with vicious violence until he is unconscious. Paul then goes rushing out into the office, and rings for an ambulance.</div> <bR> <div> Paul now stands accused of trying to escape and felonious assault.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 306 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="150990180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Bert Freed, Ben Gazzara and Jim Lormer in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sheriff Parsons tells the judge Paul shouldn't be released</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> A hearing is held before Judge Barnes. Paul describes the beating he received at the hands of Deputy Potter, and Deputy Slocum says he's lying, and that he caught Paul trying to escape. The judge says that there is no proof that he wasn't trying to escape, and sets a trial date for felonious assault, pointing out that the sentence will likely be 10-15 years. Paul's friend Richard Phillips in San Francisco contacts a local lawyer, and Hollingsworth Amberton visits the jail, and tells Paul that there's not much he can do for him. Paul suggests trying to get the $25,000 bail amount lowered.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="150a902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Strother Martin and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Holly says that at best, Paul will serve 18 months</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> On the basis that Paul is a member of the legal profession with abundant references, Holly is able to get the bail reduced to $5,000, but the sheriff offers a stark warning as they leave the hearing.</div> <bR> <div> At a hotel Holly also tells Paul that he is likely to be convicted, either in this town or any other in the state.</div> <bR> <div> Holly tells him that his only chance is to plead guilty, reckoning that he'd get a sentence of no more than five to seven years, and probably be out on parole within 18 months.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="150b902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The sheriff says he's impounded Paul's car</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul shouts back angrily that he can't afford 18 months.</div> <bR> <div> When he goes to find his car, despite the fact that his bail conditions allow him to drive anywhere in the county, it is locked up in the police garage. Moreover, two deputies are on constant guard outside his hotel window.</div> <bR> <div> Despite this, in the night, Paul manages to climb out the window, and use a drain pipe to give him access to the roof of the hotel, and makes his way to the highway where he hitches a ride, and gets a plane back to San Francisco.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 306 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="150d90180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Walter Brooke and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul tells Richard that he wants to clear his record</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> At the home of Molly Pierce, sister of his former fiancée Kate, Paul explains what happened to Richard Phillips, an extradition specialist who says that Paul is quite safe now. But Paul counters that he doesn't want a record somewhere that criminal charges are hanging over him along with bail jumping. He adds that, having set this time aside for traveling, he might wish to visit neighboring states in the south, particularly a friend on the Mississippi Gulf coast. There would  always be a possibility that a local sheriff might be a friend of Parsons, and get him extradited.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 283 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="150f90ff0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="255" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Warren Oates in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> With a gun to his head Potter gets Paul into a van</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Telling Richard that it was difficult to explain, Paul says, “the time I've set aside, I want it to be as free as possible.” Listening on, and knowing of his illness, Molly flinches. Richard considers what Paul has said, and promises to work on the case.</div> <bR> <div> The two men leave, and are discussing where they'll go for a drink, when they are jumped by Deputy Potter and two other men who knock Richard out, and bustle Paul at gunpoint into a van, nearly running Richard over as they drive away at speed.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 304 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1511900e0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="270" ALT="Strother Martin and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Holly discussing charging Potter with kidnapping</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Back in the same cell as before, Paul is visited by Holly who says that he looked into getting him released on the grounds that Paul was kidnapped.</div> <bR> <div> But he explains that kidnapping is not a federal offence unless a reward nor ransom are sought. Politically, Paul will get no help from the local Governor who will not free him on the basis he was kidnapped, nor allow Potter's extradition to California.</div> <bR> <div> Dejected, Paul tells Holly that he can leave the case if he wants.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 310 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1513901d0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="285" ALT="Bert Freed and Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Molly comes to visit Paul in jail</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But the lawyer says that he'll stick with Paul to the bitter end, a choice of words which Paul notes ruefully.</div> <bR> <div> He then asks Holly to get in touch with Molly Pierce, and gives him some notes for her, especially that she should sign the hotel register as being from Texas. </div> <bR> <div> Molly shows up at the jail with a southern accent, and goes to see Paul. They say little of consequence, mindful that they might be overheard, which is indeed the case. He hands her a paper, and she leaves tearfully.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1514902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Warren Oates and Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Molly says her father will do anything to free Paul</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> That night she appears in the local nightspot, and offers to buy Potter a drink. He is totally suspicious of her, but Molly is open about doing whatever she can to get Paul out of jail.</div> <bR> <div> Dressed in diamonds and furs, she tells him that she's the grand daughter of a famously wealthy Texan, and that her still wealthier father would do anything to avoid the embarrassment of having a future son-in-law in prison.</div> <bR> <div> Potter gets up and tells Molly that he can't be bought.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1515902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Molly makes the deal irresistible</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But when she mentions $50,000, he sits down again.</div> <bR> <div> For that amount, she wants him to admit that he started the altercation and the whole incident was his fault.</div> <bR> <div> “and Deputy Potter would be ex-Deputy Potter,” he replies, laughing, and Molly corrects him to say, “he would be rich Deputy Potter.”</div> <bR> <div> She says that her father wants to see Potter, and make sure that he'll do what they're paying him for.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1516902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Warren Oates, Vince Howard and Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Potter is arrested on the tarmac</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> However, she will give him $5,000 just to fly to Dallas to talk over the deal.</div> <bR> <div> She hands him the money, and the next day, the two of them are in a private jet.</div> <bR> <div> They're met on the tarmac by three men, and after one asks the deputy if he's Laverne Potter, their next words are, “you're under arrest.” He's advised of his rights, and told that he's being held for kidnapping.</div> <bR> <div> Potter says that he's never been in Texas before, but finds out that he's actually in California. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 306 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="151890180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Warren Oates and Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Molly says the bribe money is marked</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> When he says that he was tricked into coming into the state, the officer says that it doesn't matter to him, and he can use that in his defense. But Molly chirps up and declares that it matters to her, adding that Potter came to California as the result of a bribe. She states that the $5000 bribery money is in his pocket, and she wants it removed as evidence. Presenting a search warrant, the officer reaches to take the cash from Potter's jacket. He resists, saying that they have no right to take his money, but Molly points out that it's marked, and she can prove it's part of a bribe.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1519902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul says that Potter's in for a long sentence</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Back at the jail, the sheriff says that he can't figure how Potter ended up in California, and that he suspects Paul's involvement.</div> <bR> <div> “Right up to the hilt,” replies Paul, pointing out that his kidnapping was witnessed, and Potter was heading for St. Quentin Prison. He says that the sheriff's rotten system is going to fall apart when he loses the loyalty of his deputies. Later Sheriff Parsons comes back to Paul's cell, saying that it was true that he didn't want the trial in California any more than Paul wanted to spend 15 years in prison, so he was ready to make a deal.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="151a902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The sheriff offers to drop the charges against Paul</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> “What can we trade?” asks Paul smugly, “I'm holding all the cards.” With the main witness against Paul in a California jail, the sheriff has no case against him. Parsons suggests that if he dropped all the charges against Paul,t hen Paul would be able to go back to California, and drop the kidnap charges against Potter.</div> <bR> <div> Paul asks Parsons if he has the authority to make that kind of deal, and the sheriff confirms that he can.</div> <bR> <div> “You drop the charges, and we'll get going to California,” Paul responds.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="151b902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed, Walter Brooke, Anne Helm and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Molly and Richard meet a free Paul in San Francisco</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> “You're a reasonable man,” says Parsons, and Paul replies, “as a reasonable man, I will reason,” promising to finish the William Lloyd Garrison quote for him another time.</div> <bR> <div> An hour later the two leave for California, Paul a free man with no charges against him, and they fly to San Francisco.</div> <bR> <div> Richard and Molly meet him at the airport, asking if all the charges have been dropped. The sheriff impatiently says that they need to get a taxi to go out to Potter, but Paul replies that while a visit might be nice, he's on his way to Lake Tahoe at the moment.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="151c902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Bert Freed and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul offers a quote about dealing with tyrants</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Parsons points out urgently that he and Paul had a deal, but Paul says they didn't, adding, “I don't owe you anything - no truth, no honor, no ethics, no moral code ….”</div> <bR> <div> The sheriff interrupts him, repeating that they had a deal, but Paul replies that Parsons only thought they had a deal, Paul, in fact, having never offered or promised anything.</div> <bR> <div> “By the way,” Paul adds, “here's the rest of that quote by Garrison, `with reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; with the tyrants I will give no quarter or waste arguments.'”</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="14a1281e0.png" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="14a1281e0.png" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Notes & Comments: It does get a bit gruelling to watch Paul be subjected to untold misery and harassment every time he enters a small US town. The anti-Middle America bias of the series would have been better served by just eliminating such locations from the schedule.</div> <bR> <div> But though the physical and psychological violence was unpleasant to have to deal with for the umpteenth time, this really did pan into an outstanding piece, even if one had to stretch credibility at many turns in the cause of dramatic licence.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/5_10september66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/5_10september66.h"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="903" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="151f99dc0.jpg" border=0 width="153" height="220" ALT="Warren Oates in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Warren Oates as</div> <div> Laverne Potter</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="152097dc0.jpg" border=0 width="151" height="220" ALT="Anne Helm in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Anne Helm as</div> <div> Molly Pierce</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="15219bdc0.jpg" border=0 width="155" height="220" ALT="Bert Freed in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Bert Freed as</div> <div> Sheriff Jed Parsons</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1522a4dc0.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="220" ALT="Strother Martin in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Strother Martin as</div> <div> Hollingsworth  Amberton</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="15239cdc0.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="220" ALT="Michael Mikler in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Michael Mikler</div> <div> as Link Slocum</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="1040" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1524a5dc0.jpg" border=0 width="165" height="220" ALT="Walter Brooke in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Walter Brooke as</div> <div>  Richard Phillips</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1525a9dc0.jpg" border=0 width="169" height="220" ALT="Jon Lormer in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jon Lormer as</div> <div> Judge Wallace Barnes</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1526a4dc0.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="220" ALT="Norman Leavitt in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Norman Leavitt as</div> <div>  Gas Station Attendant</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="152799dc0.jpg" border=0 width="153" height="220" ALT="Monty Whitney in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Monty Whitney</div> <div> as Linus</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="152895dc0.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="220" ALT="Steve Cory in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Steve Cory</div> <div> as Tate</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="152999dc0.jpg" border=0 width="153" height="220" ALT="Vince Howard in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Vince Howard as</div> <div> the 1st Officer</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  Next Episode:  <A HREF="rapeoflucrece.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Rape of Lucrece">The Rape of Lucrece</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0dc96450.png" border=0 width="150" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>