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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
A Girl Named Sorrow
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Synopsis: On their sail-planing vacation Paul remains in the dark about the actions of secret Israeli agent Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) as she tracks down a Nazi war criminal In the Arizona desert . With David Opatoshu as Dave Kafka, William Boyett as the Deputy, Charles Wagenheim as the Hobo, Eric Braeden as David Navan
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Episode 10
First broadcast on
November 22, 1965
Written by Judith & Robert Guy Barrows
Directed by Leslie H. Martinsont
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SEE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS OF ENTIRE CAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
part 1
and part 2

Creative Team
Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Paul Freeman
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
John L. Russell A.S.C.
Art Director
Frank Arrrigo
Film Editor
Carl Pingitore A.C.E.
Unit Manager
Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director
Henry Kline
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Perry Murdoch
Sound
Corson Jones
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
Links to Other Episodes
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Lisa reacts dramatically to Kafka's tatoo
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The plot:
Paul is having a romance with Lisa Sorrow, and advising her as she practices gliding over Juan les Pins in France, and they proceed to Arizona where Dave Kafka runs a flying school.
Kafka is unimpressed with Lisa's gliding, and says she won't be good enough to enter a meet the following week.
When she reacts strongly to the concentration camp tattoo on Kafka's arm, Paul remarkss about it.
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Kafka overcomes his attackers
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In the evening Lisa makes a phone call, and gives a coded message.
When he goes to town, Kafka is attacked by two men and abducted. However, Kafka has a gun, and as they are driving along,
he overcomes his attackers, and kills them, then shoots a tramp who accidentally sees him disposing of the bodies.
When she sees Kafka return the next day, Lisa becomes very agitated.
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Lisa overhears Kafka trying to get cash urgently
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Paul asks if there is anything he can do, but she says that she just wants to lie down in her room. There, she makes another phone call, and says that units sent didn't work, and need to be replaced. She takes a gun from her suitcase, and goes outside.
Lisa sneaks up to Kafka's window, and discovers him making a call, trying desperately to get a loan on the hotel, even accepting a high interest rate on the free-and-clear property if he can get the money in cash tomorrow or the next day from the lender.
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Lisa appeals to Paul to help her follow Kafka
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However, Paul observes Lisa eavesdropping, and takes her inside, telling her to put away her gun.
Paul asks her what's going on between herself and Kafka, but she refuses to say.
Then he asks her how much of the eager girl in France, dying to learn to soar, was real.
She replies that, as far as Paul was concerned, all of her - that was genuine, even if the enthusiasm for gliding was a lie.
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They drive behind Kafka's truck with lights off
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Paul suggests calling the police, but she says that won't work, that Kafka is about to make a run for it. Paul remains puzzled, and questions who would put Lisa to go after this wanted criminal. She explains that she was only to observe and report, but Kafka had become suspicious, and she needed to find out where he went, so Paul starts walking into the nearest town to buy or rent a car, since neither have transport.
Kafka apparently gets his money, and sets off in his truck after nightfall, with Lisa and Paul driving behind him at a safe distance, without lights.
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Lisa tells Paul about her life
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However, a policeman spots them, and issues Paul a ticket for driving without lights. Despite the delay, they remain on Kafka's trail, as he's not turned off, but continued on the same straight road.
All they need to do is drive a little faster now.
Then, all of a sudden, shots ring out. They are not hit, but their radiator is disabled. Lisa jumps out of the car and fires three shots, each one accurately hitting Kafka's fuel tank.
Now, all parties have to proceed on foot.
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Paul says that he might kill Mannheim himself
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As they've been shot at, the time has come for Lisa to do some explaining about herself and Kafka.
She removes her bracelet and reveals a concentration camp tattoo from the time she was three years old. Her father was executed, and after the War, her mother, who'd survived the camps, simply died.
Lisa grew up in Israel, went into the army, and eventually received the assignment to follow Kafka whom she reveals to be a notorious Nazi official. Paul is clearly struck when he hears the name.
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They follow Mannheim's footprints
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Lisa explains that the real name of the man they are tracking is Ernst Mannheim, who created an identity for himself at the end of the war to make it seem like he too was a Holocaust victim, but the Israelis have tracked him down via his great passion for gliding.
Paul doesn't understand why they don't let American authorities arrest and try him, but Lisa says that the United States would merely extradite Mannheim to Germany, “who would not sentence him to death,” Paul adds with understanding.
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They find Kafka's abandoned truck
Her gun pointing at him, Paul walks ahead of Lisa
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Paul adds with passion, “because I'm not one of you doesn't mean that I don't feel the same. He probably should be tried in Israel, but I can't help you kidnap him, and I can't let you go after him alone, so I'm going to help you all I can - to find him, and turn him over to the American authorities - if I can resist the urge to kill him myself.”
They search the barren brush landscape, and eventually find the abandoned truck. But Lisa then hits Paul on the head, and takes the gun from him, telling him to let her go on alone while he walks in the other direction as far as she can see him. She says Ernst Mannheim is about history, and it would be better to let him get away than to kill him, because the Israelis would catch up with him again later.
But Paul refuses to leave her, and so he goes on ahead of her at gunpoint, and she says she'll still shoot him if need be. They eventually find Mannheim's tracks which indicate he is not far ahead of them, Paul leading the way.
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Lisa is wounded when Mannheim shoots at them
Lisa screams at Paul in a frenzy
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Then, suddenly, shots ring out. Lisa suffers a minor flesh wound, and Paul rips his shirt to dress it, as she surmises Mannheim must be desperate for water, or he wouldn't have stopped.
After giving her some water, Paul gently takes the gun from Lisa, and she begs, that no matter what happens, Paul shouldn't kill Mannheim. Paul carefully maneuvers in the direction the shots came. Lisa follows at a distance. Then more shots ring out.
But what Paul discovers is Manheim dead with the rifle in his hand. Lisa goes into a frenzy of anger, screaming and lashing out at Paul with her fists.
He subdues her and points out that he did not kill Mannheim as she has surmised.
Paul says that Mannheim apparently died of natural causes, possibly from exhaustion or lack of water. But Lisa is crestfallen not to bring the man to justice, and leaves the scene in despair.
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Review: There may have been the possibility of a good story here, but it certainly failed in the execution. This tale is full of the irrational with so many disbelieving whys. Why would the Israelis put someone so obviously from their nation on the trail of the Nazi war criminal.
Why wasn't Lisa's partner another from the team, and not stranger Paul? Why didn't she have a car? Why didn't Mannheim simply hide behind his truck and shoot Paul and Lisa when they came into view?
How could Lisa possibly hope to keep on Mannheim's trail? How could they survive in the desert-like environment with so little water. After a day trudging in the sun, neither looked worse for wear, including Paul's sportsjacket.
The holes in the story are too numerous to detail
That Mannheim died of natural causes seemed unlikely, the way the body was, especially since, only a couple minutes before, he'd fired his rifle. More likely, he took some kind of suicide capsule.
When Run For Your Life gets into wide open spaces (as “Our Man in Limbo”), it's unrealistic locations and props let it down seriously.
part 1
and part 2
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Ina Balin as
Lisa Sorrow
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David Opatoshu
as Dave Kafka
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William Boyett
as the Deputy
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Charles Wagenheim
as the Hobo
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Eric Braeden as David Navan
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