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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
The Company of Scoundrels
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Synopsis: Paul investigates the death of his friend who headed a committee for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw gambling. With Pat Hingle as Frederick Huffschmidt, Ford Rainey as General Andrew Douglas, Robert Yuro as Tony Cupid, Lou Frizzell as the Gas Station Attendant, Dean Harris as Ames Farley, Kermit Murdock as Senator Strohm, Bob Kaliban as Arthur Cort, Len Wayland as Lieutenant Omar Blix, Julian Burton as Egan, Barry Williams as Stanley, Shelly Novack as the 2nd Trucker, Lew Palter as the 1st Trucker, Donald Foster as Committee Chairman, Stuart Nisbet as the Man
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Episode 66
Season 3 - #6
First broadcast on
October 18, 1967
Teleplay by Howard Browne
Story by John Thomas James
(Roy Huggins)
Directed by Michael Ritchie
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Creative Team
Producer
Paul Freeman
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
William Margulies A.S.C.
Art Director
Robert MacKichan
Film Editor
Nick Archer
Unit Manager
Donald Baer
Assistant Director
Norman Cook
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Robert C. Bradfield
Sound
Melvin M. Metcalfe Sr.
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Technicolor
Editorial Dept. Head
Richard Belding
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costume Supervisor
Vincent Dee
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Assistant to Producer
Steve Heilpern
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Paul testifies before a US Senate hearing
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The Plot
When his friend Dwight Sinclair is killed on the road, Paul takes over the former San Francisco mayor's position as head of a committee for a constitutional amendment to outlaw gambling throughout the United States.
Testifying against gambling before a US Senate committee, Paul presents evidence he uncovered, indicating Dwight Sinclair's motor accident was actually murder.
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The police lieutenant is dubious, but encourages Paul
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Suspecting that Sinclair's death was no accident, Paul began his personal investigation into the incident by consulting the police lieutenant who handled the case. he indicates that there were no suspicious circumstances apparent.
Lt. Blix nevertheless encourages Paul to do his own investigation, and an interview with witnesses turns up a clue in the form of a hat ornament sported by the driver of another car they saw near Sinclair's vehicle at the time of the accident.
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Finally an attendant remembers the hat
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Paul asks in countless service stations about the quirky item without success.
He finally gets lucky when an attendant recalls it, and even produces a credit card receipt that gives the name Vincent Pielow,, his company and the fact that the car had Michigan plates (when the ones seen by the witnesses were local).
Paul asks a private investigator in Detroit to find Pielow, but the man just gets the address in a phone book and charges Paul $25 for this, but also reveals Pielow's company makes gambling machines.
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The private detective looks up Pielow in the phone book
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But when Paul asks for further investigation of Vincent Pielow, the detective says that he's too busy, and recommends another firm. After his client leaves, however, he makes a phone call, describing Paul, the nature of his inquiries, and giving the name of his hotel.
As a result of what he's found, Paul goes to see retired General Douglas, now head of an electronics firm, who is interested in the work of the anti-gambling committee. Paul tells him that he thinks it may be possible to prove that Sinclair was killed by an organized crime syndicate.
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The General's security man says Paul is being followed
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Late that afternoon Vincent Pielow is gunned down near his home.
An hour later, as Paul is about to make a critical inquiry , a man holds him at gunpoint in an elevator, but turns out to be General Douglas' security chief, observing whether Paul is being followed. He tells Paul that he is under constant surveillance by a team of cars owned by a firm who's offices are in Washington, D.C.
From then on, Paul starts watching out for one of the vehicles described by General Douglas' head of security .
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Paul catches the man who's been following him
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The next day he manages to trap one of the drivers, and finds he's working for a detective firm with 80 branches across the US.
Paul goes to see it's head, Frederick Huffschmidt, and accuses him of trying to prevent Paul from testifying at the Senate hearing the following Monday, but declares that nothing will stop him.
Back in Detroit. a boy in Pielow's neighborhood gives Paul a hat he found with the distinctive ornament described by the witness to Sinclair's car crash.
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Paul gets Tony Cupid to sign a confession
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Via fingerprints on the hat and with a massive input from the General's contacts, Paul is able to locate the man, Tony Cupid, and with an offer of $25,000 to get him out of the country before the mob kills him too, induces Cupid into telling the story of how Sinclair was killed, and putting it on paper.
Huffschmidt then contacts Paul, and in a last-ditch effort to keep him from testifying before the Senate committee, announces that he's discovered that Paul has a terminal illness that he'll do anything to keep secret.
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Huffschmidt threatens to reveal Paul's secret
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Confident that he'll stop Paul, Huffschmidt declares that if Paul appears at the hearing, that information will appear in the press. If he doesn't, the secret will be kept.
But Paul does appear at the Senate on Monday, and calls Huffschmidt aside before the hearing begins, telling him that the anti-gambling team has rooted out important information about Huffschmidt. If the facts about Paul's illness are published, he will provide the press with documented evidence that will put the investigation boss out of business, if not behind bars.
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Paul gives the General a tip
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Paul then advises the General that Huffschmidt can be bluffed .
At the hearing Paul offers in evidence the confession of Tony Cupid, the cohort of Vincent Pielow, that the two men were responsible for the death of Dwight Sinclair, whom an organized crime syndicate wanted removed over his campaign to outlaw gambling.
When the committee goes into recess, General Douglas tells Huffschmidt that he is taking over chairmanship of the Committee For The 26th Amendment.
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Pat Hingle as
Frederick Huffschmidt
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Ford Rainey as
General Andrew Douglas
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Robert Yuro as
Tony Cupid
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Lou Frizzell as the
Station Attendant
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Dean Harris
as Ames Farley
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Kermit Murdock
as Senator Strohm
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Bob Kaliban
as Arthur Cort
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Len Wayland as
Lt. Omar Blix
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Julian Burton
as Egan
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Barry Williams
as Stanley
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Shelly Novack as
the 2nd Trucker
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Lew Palter as
the 1st Trucker
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Donald Foster as
Committee Chairman
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