Rapture at Two Forty

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=1 style="border-right: 1px solid #555555;" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1287" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 206 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="13a00ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="13a10ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="139f0ac80.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#330000 WIDTH="477"><bR> <div> Run For Your Life</div> <div> Starring Ben Gazzara</div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ben Gazzara Episode Guide to Run For Yo">Homepage</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Pilot Episode:</div> <div> Rapture at Two Forty</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1285" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#330000 HEIGHT= 56 WIDTH="797"><bR> <div>   <A HREF="videos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Video List">List of Videos</A>           <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/"> </A><A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/">Paul Bryan's Journal</A> (and Chronology of Events)</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="477"><bR> <div> To contact us, click Homepage link above</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1116" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 219 WIDTH="648"><div> Synopsis: When lawyer Paul Bryan learns that he has a terminal illness and less than two years to live, he decides to retire from his practice, and takes off for the French Riviera. There he meets Leslie Thurston (katherine Crawford) and her father Robert (Michael Rennie), and takes on her hazardous lifestyle to win “an indestructible” woman, only to find she has fallen in love with him. With Antoinette Bower as Gillian, Miguel Ángel Landa as Henri, Marcel Hillaire as The Taxi Driver, George Conrad as the First Sailor, S. John Launer as Dr. Manson, Stella Garcia as Risa,  Sergio Mendes Brasil 66 as The Combo, Joan Gibbs as Hennid, Albert Carrier as the Ambulance Attendant</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="457"><div> Pilot Episode</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> "Kraft Suspense Theater"</div> <div> April 15, 1965</div> <div> Teleplay by Luther Davis</div> <div> Story by Jo Swerling Jr.</div> <div> Directed by William A. 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<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= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138e90290.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="297" ALT="Ben Gazzara Marcel Hillaire in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> With the sneering cab drive<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >r</FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot:</div> <bR> <div> After a doctor confirms that he might have as little as nine months to live, Paul travels to Antibe on the French Riviera, and is immediately challenged by the taxi driver as an “American tourist.”</div> <bR> <div> A fellow passenger is dropped off, and Paul spots Leslie Thurston bantering with a sports car racer.</div> <bR> <div> Paul immediately decides to try and meet her by joining the scuba diving party she's going to.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="138f902b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="299" ALT="Ben Gazzara Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul sets a challenging depth for himself</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Quite ill-prepared, the next day Paul takes a chance of being accepted, and  swims out with others in Leslie's party to the diving boat, claiming to be a friend of the owner.</div> <bR> <div> A pool has been set up among the divers, and Leslie says she'll get to a challenging 220 feet, so Paul, a complete amateur, says he'll go 20 deeper.Having caught her attention in this way, Paul asks Leslie to have lunch with him on shore before they dive later in the day.At the restaurant hey dance and dine to Brazilian music. Paul admits that he isn't a friend of the owner,and that he only went to the boat to meet Leslie. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 308 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="477901a0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="282" ALT="Katherine Crawford Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Leslie advises sky diving</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> She suggests that he try sky diving, and quotes Nietzsche's advice about living dangerously.</div> <bR> <div> Her father enters the restaurant, and Leslie tells Paul how he was clawed hunting tigers with a spear. After lunch, they learn that Henri, who also set Paul's challenging depth of 240, has died in the attempt, but Leslie is going to do her dive anyway, and her father tells Paul that he encourages her.  His son was a race driver, and Leslie is trying to live up to her brother's feats.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 218 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1391c0bc0.jpg" border=0 width="192" height="188" ALT="Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1392d5bc0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="188" ALT="Michael Rennie & Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> They all think about Leslie's dangerous dive</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Despite the tragedy earlier in the day, Leslie makes her dive, and everyone becomes tense, especially her father -  when she reaches the depth where Henri got in trouble. </div> <bR> <div> But she is successful, and Paul begins his own descent while Leslie is stopped in the water decompressing, and they meet on his way down. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 181 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1396569b0.jpg" border=0 width="86" height="155" ALT="Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1397939b0.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="155" ALT="Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1398a69b0.jpg" border=0 width="166" height="155" ALT="Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul hallucinates on his dive</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div>  After a while, as Paul dives deeper and deeper, he begins to experience sensations of drunkenness.</div> <bR> <div> The change in oxygen levels causes him to hallucinate, visualizing Leslie in the water dancing erotically, but he still manages an impressive depth of 250.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1399902b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="299" ALT="Ben Gazzara Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Leslie says she's never been in love</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> That evening, they dance, but Leslie rejects Paul's romantic overtures, admitting she's never been in love.</div> <bR> <div> He asks her what she has against men, and she replies that she hasn't known any.  Paul suggests her father is a real man, and than adds "and me."</div> <bR> <div> Later Paul contemplates his impossible situation, and writes in his journal that, instead of hunting pleasure, as had been his plan on this trip, he's resolved to salvage the hidden woman in Leslie Thurston.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="139a902b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="299" ALT="Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul contemplates his situatio<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >n</FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul is still in the initial stages of coming to terms with his terrible diagnosis.</div> <bR> <div> He faced the second turning point, and made the decision to give up his law practice - and the life that went with it. Now he is coming to a third. </div> <bR> <div> Paul must decide just what direction to take with the time he has left, whether to simply enjoy himself and take a long vacation seeing all the sights and experiences his work kept him from - or to devote whatever is left to him in the service of others. He decides to become a "working playboy."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="139b902b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="299" ALT="Katherine Crawford Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> About to jump from the plane</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Leslie persuades Paul to go sky diving, an experience he approaches with great ambivalence.</div> <bR> <div> After they dive each takes enormous chances, waiting for the other to be the first to pull the rip cord.</div> <bR> <div> The experience appears to bring them closer, and the romance between the dying man and the indestructible woman ensues.</div> <bR> <div> They make plans.  but Leslie remembers a commitment to drive in a road race, and Paul acts as navigator.  </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="139c902b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="299" ALT="Katherine Crawford Ben Gazzara in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul tells Leslie that he's dying</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The race is highly competitive, and Leslie is in her element, while Paul is less enthusiastic. Despite her skill, there is a crash, and Paul is injured.  In the ambulance, she begs him to take her along on his solitary journey, “at least for a little while - until we have ten children or so,” declaring that she loved him unbearably when she thought she'd killed him with her driving.</div> <bR> <div> He responds that he can't stay with her, that he is dying, and would always be reminded of that when he looked into her eyes, needing to be around people who don't know about his situation.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 260 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="139d90e60.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="230" ALT="Michael Rennie & Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Leslie tells her father why she'leaving for home</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Leslie tries to come to terms with this, and says that Antibe is their place, and they must both leave.</div> <bR> <div> She resolves to give up her daredevil life and return to Philadelphia to settle down.</div> <bR> <div> Her father accepts that she will not live the life his son would have, and accompanies her to the train.</div> <bR> <div> Paul watches her depart from a distance.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Notes & Comments: The pilot episode of Run For Your Life appeared in an anthology series just four months before the show premier, when it was already sold, and well into production.  However, it's resemblance to the series is slight, most particularly in the character of Paul Bryan. He lacks self-assurance, is awkward, unworldly, almost plodding, and unconvincing as a highly successful San Francisco lawyer. There is almost a sense that Ben Gazzara was playing the part against his will, and doing anything possible to sabotage the series.</div> <bR> <div> While the romance that develops with Leslie is not <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >totally </FONT>unbelievable, there was never a click between them to generate it, sorely missing to develop sympathy for her plight of being in love with a man who couldn't stay with her. Throughout, he is the passive one, not only in the dialogue, but especially in the way the scenes are directed, and although this may be just to emphasize the relationship between a sophisticate and the unsullied Paul, it gravely misportrays him in his role as central character of the series.</div> <bR> <div> His lack of enthusiasm for - and almost derisory attitude towards - the dangerous pursuits he undertakes later in the actual series is emphasized by a relief when the experiences have been completed, and thus lending a comic note to what was supposed to be a life-threatening situation.</div> <bR> <div> The Brazilian music courtesy of Sergio Mendez was nice.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/1_11april65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/1_11april65.htm"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> and watch a scene from this episode on the same page</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="977" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0b2d5dc0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="220" ALT="Katherine Crawford in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Katherine Crawford</div> <div> as Leslie Thurston</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0b3aedc0.jpg" border=0 width="174" height="220" ALT="Michael Rennie in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Michael Rennie</div> <div>  as Robert Thurston</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0dac1dc0.jpg" border=0 width="193" height="220" ALT="Antoinette Bower in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Antoinette Bower</div> <div> as Gillian</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0b6afdc0.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="220" ALT="Marcel Hillaire in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Marcel Hillaire </div> <div> as The Taxi Driver</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0b9abdc0.jpg" border=0 width="171" height="220" ALT="Miguel Ángel Landa in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Miguel Ángel Landa</div> <div> as Henri</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1107" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 288 WIDTH="218"><div> <IMG SRC="0b7dadc0.jpg" border=0 width="218" height="220" ALT="Sergio Mendes Brasil 66 in Run for Your Life " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Sergio Mendes Brasil 66 as The Combo</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0baacdc0.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="220" ALT="George Conrad in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> George Conrad </div> <div> as The First Sailor</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0b8a2dc0.jpg" border=0 width="162" height="220" ALT="S. John Launer in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> S. John Launer</div> <div> as Dr. Manson</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0bbacdc0.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="220" ALT="Stella Garcia in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Stella Garcia</div> <div> as Risa</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="168"><div> <IMG SRC="0b5a8dc0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="220" ALT="Joan Gibbs in Run for Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Joan Gibbs </div> <div> as Hennid</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0d8afdc0.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="220" ALT="Albert Carrier in Run for Your Life " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Albert Carrier as </div> <div> Ambulance Man</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Next Episode  <A HREF="coldwarofpaulbryan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan">The Cold, Cold War</A> <A HREF="coldwarofpaulbryan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan">of Paul Bryan</A></div> <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> </td> </tr></table></body>