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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Fly By Night
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Synopsis: Paul acts as a catalyst to expose the killers responsible for the murder his friend Garrett Hamilton (Jason Evers) is suspected of. With Felicia Farr as Alita Greenley, Andrew Duggan as James Seabourne, Don Stroud as Jim Hammack, Richard McMurray as Ralph Phillips, Jo Ann Harris as the Girl, Bruce Glover as Tweed Murcott, Lindsay Workman as the Doctor, Maralee Foster as the Little Girl
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Episode 75
Season 3 - #15
First broadcast on December 22, 1967
Teleplay by Robert Foster
& Philip De Guere, Jr.
Story by John Thomas James (Roy Huggins)
Directed by Richard Benedict
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Creative Team
Producer
Paul Freeman
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
Ray Flin
Art Director
Robert MacKichan
Film Editors
David Eric Rawlins
Unit Manager
Donald Baer
Assistant Director
Frank Losee
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Robert C. Bradfield
Sound
Earl Crain Jr.
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Technicolor
Editorial Dept. Head
Richard Belding
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costume by Burton Miller
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Assistant to Producer
Steve Heilpern
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Paul goes to see Jim Seabourne
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The Plot
Paul has returned to San Francisco to support an old friend, Garrett Hamilton, accused of murdering his wife and her lover. He escapes indictment at a preliminary hearing, but with his reputation nevertheless in tatters, that night he attempts suicide.
Paul rushes to the hospital, but it looks like there's a chance that Garrett will survive, and at midnight, Paul goes to talk about the case with his old friend on the San Francisco police force, Lieutenant Jim Seabourne.
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Paul says he believes Garrett to be innocent
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They go out for a late night meal, and talk about the case.
While Jim is still convinced that Garret is guilty, Paul believes that to be impossible.
Jim points out that Garrett went off to a lake fishing the weekend of the murders, something everyone considered uncharacteristic, and although this gave him a sort of alibi, at least a dozen people heard a plane taking off and landing in the area at 10 pm and 2:30 am, and a dry lake would have accommodated such a flight that coincided with the time of the killings.
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Jim says the case is closed
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Jim explains that the reason they couldn't indict Garrett was that they couldn't connect him with the stolen plane that was probably used for the flight.
Though Jim declares the case to be closed because there's no place to go with it, Paul wants to look into it, and find holes in the theory that Garrett was guilty, but clever enough to get away with the crime. Otherwise, Paul theorizes, his friend will try to kill himself again. Knowing of Paul's illness, Jim says it's not worth his time, but admits that the lover's estranged wife might be a place to start.
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Paul questions Alita Greenley
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Alita Greenley knew about her husband's affair with Garret's wife, but was ambivalent, as the couple only stayed married for financial reasons.
When Paul visits her, everything she says sounds reasonable, but she admits being suspicious of him, and is not terribly cooperative as a result.
When Alita leaves the room to answer a phone call, Paul looks around and notes an aviation magazine, but when she returns, Alita says that she didn't like flying, but her husband was a pilot.
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Jim Seaborne provides the name of the man following Paul
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Though Paul leaves with no particular suspicions, his object had not been to obtain information, but to make Alita Greenley nervous, and the tactics appear to have worked, as Paul's car is followed after he leaves the Greenley home.
He reports this to Jim Seaborne who gives him the name of the driver, and after changing his rental car, Paul tails the man who'd been following him, Jim Hammack.
After the musician went to a rock club, he took a girl home, and Paul waited until 4 am before driving away to see if she left.
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Paul tells Alita about following Hammack and the girl
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The next day he goes to see Alicia again. He describes his activities of the previous evening, but she denies knowing Hammack or that she had Paul followed. She threatens to call the police if Paul bothers her again, and he tells Alita that when he left her house the previous day, he had no suspicions, but since being followed, he now knows he's going in the right direction with the investigation. That night he breaks into Hammack's house, and sees Alita's number written on the cover of the phone book. But Hammack and fellow musician Tweed Murcott have heard him moving about downstairs, and knock him out.
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Tweed and Hammock watch Paul waking
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When Paul regains consciousness, in a marijuana-induced friendliness, Hammack quizzes him about being in the house, but denies having followed him the previous day.
He does, however, threaten Paul with a breaking-and-entering charge, but Paul maintains that Hammack probably won't go to the police, as they are looking for a licensed pilot in the Greenley-Hamilton murder investigation. Hammack states that there are a half million licensed pilots in the country, and continues to deny Paul's accusations, but says the only reason he won't report him is the drugs in the house.
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Jim calls for a search warrant on Hammack's house
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When he asks how Paul knew he was a pilot, Paul answers that he didn't, but Hammack confirmed his hunch. Angered by this, Hammack starts to strike Paul who fights back, but after a bit of a brawl, ends up unconscious on the floor again.
When Paul takes his findings to Jim about the man who followed him being a pilot, Jim proposes Hammack might have been hired by Garrett to facilitate the murders.
But when Paul mentions Alita's number on Hammack's phone book, Jim applies for arrest and search warrants.
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Jim and Paul examine the new phone book
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But when Paul and Jim arrive at Hammack's home, not only has the phone book been replaced, but all trace of drugs are gone from the house. Hammack protests that it is Paul who should be arrested, but Jim brings him in for questioning.
Paul visits the hospital, and learns that Garrett's condition is much improved. Jim reaches Paul there and advises that, not only was he unable to find any grounds to hold Hammack, but the musician is threatening to file a breaking-and-entering charge against Paul, so he probably shouldn't lean too heavily on Hammack.
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Paul tells Alita that Hammack has been arrested
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So he goes back to Alita Greenly, and tells her that Hammack had been arrested, adding that the police know that he has a pilot's license and no alibi for the night of the murder.
When Alita again denies knowing Hammack, Paul tells her that, although the musician has been released, he's still under investigation, and has agreed to come to Paul's hotel over an offer of money for information.
Alita doesn't see why Hammack would implicate himself, but Paul tells her that he might implicate her.
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Paul suggests that Alita listens in
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She should therefore come and hear what the musician says, because she might be in a position to turn evidence against him and get clemency for herself.
Alita says that if she goes with Paul, it's a virtual admission of guilt, but he replies that he already thinks that she's guilty. In the end she agrees to go with him as a lark, and out of curiosity over what he's up to.
As Alita listens in the bedroom, Hammack displays disinterest when Paul says that he's a suspect in the murder investigation.
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Hammock considers Paul's offer
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Paul says that he can offer him both immunity and $25,000 for evidence that there was no one else in the plane he flew to Diamond Lake, that he made the flight to frame Garret Hamilton, and protect the person who killed his wife and her lover.
Hammack appears to be considering the proposition seriously, and Alita looks more nervous as she senses this.
But then Hammack laughs loudly, and says that he was not involved in the killing, and even if he were, he'd be a fool to fall for Paul's ploy.
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Alita listens to Hammack and Paul
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He says that he doesn't go around killing people, nor would he get involved with someone like Alita, whom he refers to as “that Greenley thing.” Paul jumps on the remark as an admission that Hammack knows Alita, but he says that he only saw her picture in the newspaper.
Hammack goes on to deride Alita's type and her lifestyle, and refers to the blonde that Paul saw him with as what was his type of chick.
He leaves, and Alita re-enters the living room of the suite.
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Hammack bids Paul a glib farewell
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She asks Paul caustically if there is anything that he does well, and declares that he's desperate, but Paul says that Hammack is too clever to make a deal at this stage, but says that he'll return when the police start putting pressure on him.
Alita threatens that she'll definitely get Paul arrested if he bothers her again, and splashes him with the drink he'd given her as she leaves.
Paul goes to bid a farewell to Jim who says that he'd re-open the case if there were anything more to go on.
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Jim bids Paul good luck
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Paul tells Jim that he's leaving for London later in the day after paying a visit to Garrett who is expected to recover completely.
At the hospital Garrett remains in despair over how the frame up has ruined his good reputation, and Paul tells him that he's discovered that the murders were committed by Alita Greenley and her boyfriend.
He admits that there's no evidence yet, but that the police are prepared to re-open the case.
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Paul says he knows what Garrett's gone through
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Garrett understands that the situation is still not hopeful, and wonders how he's going to be able to go on living when everyone believes him to be a killer.
But Paul tells him that he can learn to live with anything, if he just gives it some time, and when Garrett turns away dubious, Paul adds that he's been there, and knows what he's talking about. Garrett asks him what he means, and Paul says that a little over a year earlier, something had happened that made him wonder whether it was worth going on living, and that he spent a whole night with a loaded .38 revolver in his hand.
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Paul tells of the longest night of his life
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“It was the longest night in my life,” he admits, and Garrett is amazed that Paul never told him.
“I never told anyone,” Paul replies. Garrett wants to know what happened, but Paul says that it doesn't matter now, because he never used the gun, and he thanks God ever since that he didn't.
Paul tells Garrett that he was in too much of a hurry when he made the suicide attempt, and Garrett, dejected, says that Paul makes it sound so easy to give oneself time.
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Paul wishes Garrett well
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Paul responds that it isn't easy, but there is more to Garrett than just what people think of him, and Paul thinks there's a lot more. “Time is the answer,” he adds, “no matter how hard it is to live it out.”
He leaves then, and as he is waiting to board his flight to London, Jim calls from Hammack's house to tell Paul that the musician is dead, stabbed by a knife from his kitchen, and there is an arrest warrant out for Alita Greenley. Jim says that he needs to apologize, but Paul tells Jim to make it to Garrett Hamilton
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Notes & Comments: Unfortunately, a total emptiness.
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Felicia Farr as
Alita Greenley
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Andrew Duggan as
James Seabourne
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Jason Evers as
Garrett Hamilton
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Don Stroud as
Jim Hammack
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Richard McMurray
as Ralph Phillips
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Jo Ann Harris
as the Girl
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Bruce Glover as
Tweed Murcott
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Lindsay Workman
as the Doctor
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