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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
The Edge of the Volcano
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Synopsis:Just before a government assault Paul aids Abby Powers (Katherine Crawford) to reach a Latin American rebel camp where her father is writing about the leader. With John Dehner as Eliott Powers, Alejandro Rey as Mario Cudero, Edmund Hashim as Colonel Sientos, Don Diamond as the Cab Driver, Ruben Moreno as the Tall Soldier, Len Wayland as Daniel Fulton, Mike Abelar as Manuel, Pepe Callahan as 1st Rebel Officer, Tony Palma as Lieutenant Garcia, Abel Franco as the Federal Officer
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Episode 37
Season 2 - #7
First broadcast on
October 24, 1966
Written by Ed Waters &
Paul David Moessinger
Directed by Leo Penn
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Creative Team
Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Paul Freeman
Theme
Pete Rugolo
Music Score
Benny Carter
Director of Photography
Lionel Lindon A.S.C.
Art Director
Frank Arrrigo
Film Editor
Robert Watts A.C.E.
Unit Manager
Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director
Jack Doran
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Perry Murdoch
Sound
Richard Tyler
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Pathe
Editorial Dept. Head
David J. O'Connell
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costumes by Burton Miller
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Stunts
Charlie Picerni
Links to Other Episodes
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Abby asks Paul how to find Cudero
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The plot:
Marlin fishing in Latin America, Paul encounters Abby Powers who starts a confrontation with some soldiers of the dictatorial regime that causes Paul to be beaten up by them when he comes to her aid in a bar.Later she comes to his room, saying she's a free-lance writer, and wonders if Paul has any ideas on how she might meet the elusive leader of the rebel guerrillas in order to do a story about him. Paul says if she travels in the direction of the mountains, Cudero will find her.
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Paul decides it's not a man she's looking for
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Paul accompanies Abby in the direction of the mountains by taxi as far down the road as government soldiers will allow. At that point they begin hiking their way up tuntil dark when they make a camp. Paul is suspicious that Abby is not a journalist, and when he challenges her with a few questions, she admits as much, but Paul doesn't ask her what her real business is with the rebel leader. While they are taking a break the next day, Paul kisses Abby, and by her response, decides it's not over a lover that she is looking for Cudero. But she says, it is a man - her father, novelist Eliot Powers, who is living with the rebels
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Cudero believes Paul to be a spy
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Abby says that she's going up to ask her father to come down, and as they speak, there is the sudden sound of vehicles - convoys of soldiers and equipment driving up the restricted mountain road. After they've passed,Paul and Abby continue on their journey, eventually to be captured by the rebels. She immediately asks to see her father, but while the rebel leader knows that she can easily be identified, he is more interested in Paul. Believing him to be a spy from the government, he is taken away bound, with the possibility of being shot.
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Powers has no interest in the job Abby tells him about
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While Cudero is interrogating Paul, Abby is reunited with her father, and tells him that a friend of his is dead, and the man's editorial post is being offered to the novelist. But her father insists that he is a writer, and has no interest in being an editor.
Cudero thinks Paul is an informer until he provides the observations on the troop movements. The rebel leader says if Paul's information checks out, he can go free. Cudero tells Paul he is striving for a constitutional democracy, and they part on good terms.
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Powers says Paul must get Abby away immediately
Paul asks Powers about Cudero
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Eliot Powers sits down to speak with Paul, and says he must get his daughter off the mountain immediately. Paul agrees that it is crawling with federal troops, but Powers says he's staying with Cudero. Later he says that one of the men is scouting a path down to make sure it is safe for them. He gives Paul the identification of an American journalist named Fulton, saying to use it would grant him safe passage by the government whom Fulton was neutral about in one of his reports, as opposed to others who praised Cudero. Paul wonders how the rebels will survive an attack by the troops, but Powers says he's been preparing for it two years, and has many of the people on his side.
Powers adds that the government can't get a big gun into the mountains, but that the rebels have already covered it with land mines. Paul asks Powers how he would feel if Cudero turned out to be as big a liar as Castro, but Powers says he's only here to observe, and though he thinks and hopes the rebels win, he is really a neutral who wants to write a book about the man, adding that if he loses his aesthetic distance, he'd be nothing more than a propagandist, not a novelist.
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They are introduced to the real Daniel Fulton
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As they make their way down the mountain Paul and Abby are intercepted by government troops. Paul presents the Daniel Fulton identification, but it turns out the real Fulton is on the scene, and he quickly recognizes Abby as Eliot Powers' daughter (not Paul's photographer as had been claimed). The ruse exposed, Colonel Sientos asks Paul to go back up to the rebel camp and bring Eliot Powers with him. The plan is to annihilate the rebels, and the government doesn't want headlines going around the world that they killed a famous novelist. Sientos holds Abby as hostage to make sure Powers comes.
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Paul proposes a simple game
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Paul returns to Cudero, and delivers the message that Abby will be killed if Powers doesn't leave the rebel camp. Cudero tells the novelist to endure pain before telling the agreed lies. When Powers asks if the rebel leader is sure he will, Cudero answers that he'll wager his life on it. As they go down the mountain, Powers continues to express his neutrality about Cudero, but Paul has become committed to him. Abby and her father are reunited at the government camp, and as soon as he is back, to Powers' complete surprise, a giant gun is exposed, the one he thought could never be brought up the mountain.
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Powers disables the government cannon
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The federal forces begin bombarding the rebels with the giant gun, while troops and rebels begin moving up and down the mountain. The three Americans manage to overcome their guards, then shoot the men manning the cannon, Powers rigging it so that it blows up.
From the pattern of firing, Powers notes that the government forces are retreating, and the fight is now on the rebels' terms. He tells Abby that he'll be taking the editorial job, and they make their way quickly down the mountain to get away from the fighting.
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Notes & Comments: A poverty of a thin and unrealistic plot with cardboard characters and appalling dialogue is compounded by bad acting.
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Katherine Crawford
as Abby Powers
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John Dehner as
Eliott Powers
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Alejandro Rey
as Mario Cudero
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Edmund Hashim
as Colonel Sientos
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Don Diamond as
the Cab Driver
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Ruben Moreno as
the Tall Soldier
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Len Wayland as
Daniel Fulton
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Mike Abelar
as Manuel
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Pepe Calllaha as
1st Rebel Officer
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Tony Palma as Lieutenant Garcia
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Abel Franco as the Federal Officer
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