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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Journey into Yesterday
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Synopsis: When searching for a friend missing in the New Guinea jungle Paul and his guide Carl Hague (James Forrest) are captured by the Bosavis tribe after accidentally shooting one of their young people. With Ken Renard as Warago, Anthony Chazlo, Sr. as the Native Chief, Chief Sua as the Medicine Man, Napoleon Whiting as the Uncle, Harold Fong as Harold, Steven Baron as the Hotel Manager, Gerald Lynch as the Young Native
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Episode 14
First broadcast on
Cecember 27, 1965
Teleplay by Lou Shaw
Based on the Story by Marc Norman
Directed by Richard Benedict
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Creative Team
Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Paul Freeman
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
William Margulies A.S.C.
Art Director
Howard E. Johnson
Film Editor
Carl Pingitore.
Unit Manager
Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director
John Clarke Bowman
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Perry Murdoch
Sound
Edwin S. Hall
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Pathe
Editorial Dept. Head
David J. O'Connell
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costumes Supervisor
Vincent Dee
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Links to Other Episodes
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Paul pays over Hague's fee
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The Plot:
The episode begins with Paul at a desk writing a letter to Judge Haynes about his journey to New Guinea (the content of which serves as a narration throughout), where he met his jungle guide Carl Hague.
Paul is searching for his friend Doug Haynes who went missing there, and though Hague tells him Doug is probably dead, he accepts the same large fee that the judge (Doug's father) gave Hague when searching himself.
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Their problems begin over a meal
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They charter a plane, and fly into the jungle where they get a truck and proceed onwards with much native assistance until they reach unprotected territory where head hunters have recently killed patrol guards, to the point where Judge Haynes was no longer able to continue. From there they go on foot with two native bearers. While eating, they hear a bird call, and locate wild turkey eggs. When they return to their camp, they find it destroyed. Thinking it's a wild boar on the rage, when he hears a noise in the bushes, Hague mistakenly shoots a young native boy,.
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Warago asks why they shot the boy
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Paul tries to administer first aid instead of fleeing, and within moments they are set upon by tribesmen and imprisoned. The boy is still alive, and one of their captors who speaks some English, Warago, asks them why they shot the boy.
The tone is reasonable, but when Hague answers that he thought he was shooting at a wild boar, Warago says, “you thought boy fella pig?” Hague offers to give a compensation of some shells, and Warago takes the message back to his chief.
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Hague hopes his offering of shells will set them free
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Hague tells Paul that the shells cost him only 17 cents, but are considered valuable by the natives, and Paul asks why they don't just take the shells, Hague replies that this would not be within their moral code, implying that “civilization” has not yet corrupted them, and they have strict laws.
But Warago comes back and says that the chief will not accept the compensation offering, and wants to know which one of them fired the shot. Hague freely admits being the guilty party, and Warago goes back for a consultation.
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Hague finds a letter to Paul about his diagnosis
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In hope that saving the child will help, Hague suggests Paul offer medical assistance, but this is rejected. They are allowed to walk freely in the camp, but always accompanied by a spear-carrying guard.
A debate ensues among the natives about what to do with the men, their form of a trial. While it's going on, Hague rifles through Paul's things, trying to find some kind of weapon to defend them, and comes across a letter from a clinic confirming that a cure for Paul's disease is not expected before his time is up.
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Paul makes his escape from the pit
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That evening Warago informs them that the boy has died, that Hague must give his life tomorrow for the shooting, and that Paul may leave.
Paul proposes an escape, and has a look around the camp to consider the possibilities. With a plan in mind, they overcome the two men guarding their tent, and then another two men, before making their way into the jungle, where they promptly fall into a pit trap. Though Paul is able to stand on Hague's shoulders and get out, they are quickly discovered by tribesmen.
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Hague says Paul should claim to be the killer
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Back where they started, Hague tells Paul that he's learned of his diagnosis. Pointing out that Paul wouldn't be able to make it out of the jungle on his own, whereas Hague could - and probably go on to live another 30 years, he asks Paul to claim he shot the boy, so Hague could go free. Paul responds with vehemance that what little is left of his own life is as important to him as Hague's. Hague tries a gentler ploy, speaking of his wife and children. Paul is obviously skeptical that they exist, questioning Hague intensely - and even with passion, but obviously moved by the familial circumstances.
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Paul tells disbelieving chief that he killed the boy
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The next day both men are walked at spear point to a place outside the encampment. At the last minute, moved by Hague's situation, Paul claims he is the one who killed the boy. But the chief does not believe him, and reveals that the boy told them this before he died. Then, suddenly, Hague makes a run for it, and the tribesmen race after him. After a fierce chase, Hague jumps into the river and disappears. The natives return to Paul and tell him that Hague is dead, and solemnly, the party walk back to their camp.
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Warago takes Paul to the grave of his friend
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Then Warago takes Paul to a grave where he finds an ID bracelet attached to the cross. Warago says that the young man died, and he dug a grave for him in the manner he had seen for “GI fella.” Paul asks if he may take the bracelet, obviously seeing Doug Haynes' name on it. Meanwhile, Hague has actually been swimming below water to a point where he can safely reach land, and struggles ashore.
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Paul finds Hague who leads him out of the jungle
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Paul leaves the native camp amicably, and is promptly lost in the jungle until he hears a noise in the trees. It is Hague, much the battered for wear. Paul tends to some of his wounds, and Hague declares he's leaving jungle guiding for good, and might just settle down to marry and have those children he claimed when trying to get Paul to give his life in place of his own.
They make the long trek to civilization, and when he returns home, Paul writes to Judge Haynes of his journey, and encloses Doug's ID bracelet.
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 Review: While adventurous locations were an abiding feature in Run For Your Life, they were mostly of the glamorous sort, making Journey into Yesterday definitely offbeat.
Unfortunately, the technique of Paul writing a letter to narrate the events didn't work, mostly because of his tone which didn't befit the conditions and danger he and his guide were in. His voice was just too distant, and only when he spoke his name as a signature did he reach the manner appropriate to the letter in question.
Ken Renard playing Warago created an enormously sympathetic character, and did much to give the production authenticity and interest.
Again we see Paul stepping out of character from his courteous self, delivering quite a number of gratuitously sarcastic lines that really didn't become him. Even his farewell to Warago that he could get him a job as translator at the UN seemed awfully snide to someone who had been so reasonable in the circumstances.
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James Forrest
as Carl Hague
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Ken Renard
as Warago
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Anthony Chazlo,Sr.
as the Native Chief
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Chief Sua as
the Medicine Man
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Napoleon Whiting
as the Uncle
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Harold Fong
as Harold
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Gerald Lynch as the Young Native
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