Down With Willy Hatch

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With Robert Donner as Sheriff Hinkleman, Clarke Gordon as Darrell Decker, Lou Wagner as Austin, James Anderson as Roy Potter, Robert Sorrells as the Deputy, Mary Jo Kennedy as Mary Jo Potter, Brett Pearson as the Farmer, Charles Tapley as the Ambulance Attendant</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Episode 68</div> <div> Season 3 - #8</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> November 1, 1967</div> <div> Written by Richard Baer</div> <div> Directed by Richard Benedict</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> SEE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS OF ENTIRE CAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/9_20june66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/9_20june66.htm"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> and watch a video from this episode on the same page</div> <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= 5423 ><NOBR><div> Creative Team</div> <bR> <div> Producer</div> <div>      Paul Freeman   </div> <div> Music</div> <div>      Pete Rugolo</div> <div> Director of Photography</div> <div>     William Margulies A.S.C.</div> <div> Art Director</div> <div>      Howard E. 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TITLE="Life Among the Meat Eaters">Life Among the Meat Eaters</A></div> <div> <A 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= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136290180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Don Rickles and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Willy is thrilled to see Paul</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot</div> <bR> <div> When Paul reads in a newspaper that a comic he first met at San Francisco's hungry i has been jailed on a morals charge, he goes to visit the man for whom he acted as lawyer when Willy Hatch had his own TV show.</div> <bR> <div> Sheriff Hinkleman informs Paul that the comic is charged with statutory rape for having had consensual sex with a girl under age 18, but he doesn't even know the girl's age.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1363902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Don Rickles and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> When Willy tells his story, he starts to cry</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> They haven't met for six years, and though he clowns around constantly with Paul, Willy's career has been one continuous downward spiral since their last meeting. The comedian says that he never answered Paul's calls out of embarrassment. And when he describes the  way he failed in the big nightclubs, and things went from bad to worse, Willy begins to cry.</div> <bR> <div> As for the accusations against him locally, he tells Paul that he never even met the girl, and the trumped up charges are the result of insulting jokes he made about the town in his show.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 285 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136990040.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="260" ALT="Don Rickles, Lou Wagner and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The boy rides around Willy calling him names</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The sheriff calls the visit to an end, but Paul is able to bail Willy out, and when they leave, a local boy on a bicycle goes shouting down the street that everyone should beware - especially young women - now that Willy Hatch is out of jail.</div> <bR> <div> He follows their car all the way to a local hotel, calling out over and over that Willy is a dirty old man, and continues to harass the comedian right up to the entrance steps of the hotel where the youngster managed to draw a small crowd.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136b902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Donner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The sheriff is defensive about a doctor's report</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> After settling Willy in the hotel, Paul goes to the home of Mary Jo, the girl with whom Willy was supposed to have relations. Her father, Roy Potter, is unfriendly, and says that he's sent his daughter out of town. When Paul begins asking him questions, he knocks him down, then comes out wielding a fireman's axe, and Paul leaves. </div> <bR> <div> At the sheriff's office, he asks for a copy of a doctor's report on Mary Jo, and discovers that she was never examined. The deputy even goes as far as indicating that they “took care of” Willy Hatch as they did any other trouble makers in town.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136c902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Don Rickles and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Willy knocks Paul to the floor in a mock football tackle</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul goes back to the hotel, and Willy clowns around, taking a long time to let him into their room, then giving him a football tackle. When Paul gets up off the floor to close the door, Willy thinks he may be leaving him. Paul asks when Willy's wife will be arriving, and he replies that she's making arrangements for someone to look after their children. Willy says that he's afraid of the people in the town, and Paul tells him that he's done nothing wrong, and shouldn't let them intimidate him, and a good way would be to go back to working at the Poop Deck where he had the problems with the audience that led to the false charges.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1370902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Clarke Gordon, Don Rickles and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Decker agrees to put Willy on stage again</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul says it would be great legal strategy to show that Willy is innocent, and though the comic expresses fear, they go to see Darrell Decker, owner of the Poop Deck. Decker is friendly, but a few patrons in the bar are the opposite, one purposely spilling drink on Willy. Concerned about how his patrons would take the idea of Willy on his stage, Decker is uncertain about re-employing him, but Paul says only a Communist would refute the American principle that a man is innocent until proven guilty. He agrees, and asks Willy to go on that night for the same fee as before, one that is half what Willy had told Paul he was making.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="137290180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Clarke Gordon and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Decker explains about the town's sensitivity</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Though Willy is unhappy leaving on his own, Paul gives him the keys to his car, and tells him to go back to the hotel and rest, while he has another beer and chat with Decker who tells Paul that people were enjoying Willy's act until he started to make fun of them.</div> <bR> <div> With great sincerity Decker explains to him that the town's population had gone from 40,000 to 17,000, and the citizens were naturally sensitive about the failings that had caused their community to fade, and didn't thinks his jokes about them were funny.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="137590220.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="290" ALT="Don Rickles and Mary Jo Kennedy in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Willy invites Mary Jo into his room</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> When Willy gets to the hotel, Mary Jo is waiting for him on the staircase, having escaped from her aunt's home.</div> <bR> <div> It turns out that she and Willy were acquainted after all, and she tells him how greatly she's been missing him, and that she wants to talk to him. He's wary about being seen with her in the hall, and  he lets her into his room.</div> <bR> <div> After their chat Decker drives Paul to the hotel, leaving the place to his bartender, none other than Mary Jo's father, a widower who lost his son in Viet Nam.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="137a90180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Don Rickles and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul  tells Willy all's well if he didn't like about Mary Jo</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul finds Willy packing to jump bail and leave the town. When Paul reminds him that Trudy is coming, Willy admits that his wife divorced him three years earlier, and they haven't spoken in the meantime.</div> <bR> <div> Paul asks if he was also lying about Mary Jo, and when Willy says he wasn't, Paul says that's all that matters. As he is telling Willy that it would be idiotic to lie to him as his lawyer, the sheriff and Mary Jo's father burst in. Roy Potter attacks Willy, and Paul pulls him away, the sheriff telling Mary Jo's father to leave things to the law.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="137c90180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Don Rickles, Ben Gazzara and Robert Donner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The sheriff asks where Mary Jo is</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Sheriff Hinkleman looks in the closet, and then asks where Mary Jo is. Paul and Willy deny she is there.</div> <bR> <div> The sheriff then notices the suitcase, and looks inside. Though Paul claims it's his, the sheriff recognizes it from the jail, and warns Willy about skipping bail.</div> <bR> <div> He suggests going back to the Potter home to look for Mary Jo, but her father tells Willy that if he finds out there's something between him and his daughter, he declares that he'll kill Willy.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="137e90180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara, /and Robert Donner and James Anderson in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul challenges Roy Potter's remark</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul counters, and asks what Potter means by “if” there is something between them, adding that statutory rape doesn't leave any room for ifs, but the father just leaves.</div> <bR> <div> Jubilant, Paul goes to Willy saying that the father as much as admitted the comedian's innocence, and that he'll file a motion for dismissal of the case the following day. Willy suggests that he then won't have to keep the appearance at the Poop Deck, but Paul asserts that he must - to prove to the town and to himself what Willy Hatch is made of.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138090180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Mary Jo Kennedy in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mary Jo says that Willy loved her</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> In the parking lot of the club that night Paul is approached by Mary Jo who wants to get a message to Willy. She makes reference to a sweater of Paul's to prove she was in their hotel room, and informs him that she and the comic were in love, but had to keep it secret because of the difference in their ages.</div> <bR> <div> She admits that Willy didn't tell her that he loved her, but says that he asked her to elope with him. Mary Jo says that she met Willy the first afternoon he was in town, and he let her watch his show from backstage, after which she went to his dressing room. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138290180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Mary Jo Kennedy in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> She says her father made the sheriff arrest Willy</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> After that, the teenager explains, she saw him every night until her father caught the pair, and angry that she was in a man's room made Sheriff Hinkleman arrest Willy, even though he knew that nothing physical had happened between them.</div> <bR> <div> Though she wanted to tell people that Willy was innocent, Mary Jo tells Paul that her father hid her at aunt's home where she couldn't. Her plan was to send the sheriff a letter from New York, where she now expects to go with Willy, believing that he will propose on the bus.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138490180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Mary Jo Kennedy in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mary Jo tells of plans to elope with Willy</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul asks her why she thinks that Willy is in love with her, and she answers that he told her that she was pretty and sweet, and that she could be an actress, if she applied herself.</div> <bR> <div> She adds that Willy told her she was the nicest thing to happen to him in three years.</div> <bR> <div> Paul says that he's sure that Willy likes her, but Mary Jo interrupts, and insists that Willy loves her, adding that they would talk for hours, and that he didn't want her to leave him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1385902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Don Rickles in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> No one laughs at Willy's jokes</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> She then tells Paul that Willy earlier tried to commit suicide twice - because no one laughed at his show. Mary Jo said that she always laughed at his jokes and antics, and Willy had said that it was the first real laughing he'd heard in 20,000 miles.</div> <bR> <div> When Willy comes on stage that night, no one laughs at his jokes, and he takes umbrage, and goes into the audience, individually questioning patrons as to why they're not laughing.</div> <bR> <div> Finally, he grabs one woman, and hollers, “laugh!” </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138890180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="James Anderson, Mary o Kennedy and Robert Donner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The sheriff insists on driving Mary Jo home</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Others in the audience pull him off, and he attacks them back, but is eventually driven to the floor.</div> <bR> <div> The sheriff clears the crowd, and Paul goes to Willy. Mary Jo screams, but when her father says that he'll take her home, the sheriff intervenes, and insists on driving the girl there himself.</div> <bR> <div> As Paul bends over him Willy raises his head, and lets out a terrible roar.</div> <bR> <div> After that he doesn't communicate at all. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 285 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138990040.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="260" ALT="Clarke Gordon, Don Rickles, Ben Gazzara and Robert Donner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul says he should have given Willy rest</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul tells Decker that he should have known that Willy was having a breakdown, citing the crying, the fear of being left alone and the lies, adding that he ignored all the evidence, instead of giving him what he needed most - rest.</div> <bR> <div> “You have to help friends on their terms, not on yours,” Paul says gravely, as the sheriff appears.</div> <bR> <div> He says that he's spoken to Mary Jo, and the case against Willy has been dropped.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="287281e0.gif" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="287281e0.gif" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Notes & Comments: Well-paced and interesting episode with a few morals thrown in.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/9_20june66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/9_20june66.htm"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="874" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="13679ddc0.jpg" border=0 width="157" height="220" ALT="Don Rickles a in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Don Rickles</div> <div> as Willy Hatch</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="13669cdc0.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="220" ALT="Robert Donner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Donner as</div> <div> Sheriff Hinkleman</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136f9ddc0.jpg" border=0 width="157" height="220" ALT="Clarke Gordon in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Clarke Gordon as</div> <div> Darrell Decker</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136893dc0.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="220" ALT="Lou Wagner in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lou Wagner</div> <div> as Austin</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136aa6dc0.jpg" border=0 width="166" height="220" ALT="James Anderson in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> James Anderson</div> <div> as Roy Potter</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="754" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1365a7dc0.jpg" border=0 width="167" height="220" ALT="Robert Sorrells in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Sorrells</div> <div> as the Deputy</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1376b0dc0.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="220" ALT="Mary Jo Kennedy in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mary Jo Kennedy</div> <div> as Mary Jo Potter</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="136e92d40.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="212" ALT="Brett Pearson in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brett Pearson</div> <div> as the Farmer</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138a9bdc0.jpg" border=0 width="155" height="220" ALT="Charles Tapley in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Charles Tapley as</div> <div> Ambulance Attendant</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Next Episode:  Next Episode:  <A HREF="nakedhalftruth.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Naked Half Truth">The Naked Half Truth</A></div> <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>