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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again
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Synopsis: As a favor to her father Paul searches the hippie enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles for Sara Prentice (Barbara Hershey), who writes erotic poems and charms all men. With Frank Marth as the Assistant District Attorney, Austin Willis as Myles Prentice, Robert F. Simon as the Judge, Michael Bell as George Travis, Floyd Mutrux as the Boy, George Murdock as the Police Sergeant, Richard Van Vleet as the Policeman, George Sims as the 1st Man, Gaye Huston as Girl in Courtroom, Philip Proctor as Bobo, Bobo Lewis as Aunt Turkey, Kenneth O'Brien as Harve Crawley, James Oliver as Freddie, Cec Linder as Warren Windom
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Episode 80
Season 3 - #20
First broadcast on
February 7, 1968
Teleplay by Adrian Joyce
Story by John Thomas James
Directed by Alexander Singer
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Creative Team
Producer
Robert Hamner
Supervising Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Steve Heilpern
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
Walter Strenge A.S.C.
Art Director
Henry Larreco
Film Editor
Richard Bracken
Unit Manager
Donald Baer
Assistant Director
Russell Llewellyn
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Robert C. Bradfield
Sound
Ed Somers
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
Links to Other Episodes
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Paul is asked to find Myles' daughter
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The Plot
Owing Myles Prentice many favors, Paul has been asked to search for the hippie daughter of his colleague who doesn't want to employ detectives to locate the girl. After he's crawled the streets of San Francisco's Haite Ashbury district, Miles asks Paul to go to Los Angeles. So he covers various hippie haunts in various areas, showing Sara's picture to many people. Then he sees a small advertisement mentioning the name Saro Jane, and remembering that Myles' daughter's full name was Sara Jane, checks with the newspaper.
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The man at the newspaper is unhelpful
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Asking about the man named Clement mentioned in the ad, Paul gets a rude and unhelpful reaction at the newspaper, hearing that anyone could have placed the ad. But when Paul is gone, the man makes a phone call about his inquiry. Paul is then severely beaten by the henchmen of Clement, who wants to know why he's searching for Saro Jane. Paul says he's looking for Sara Jane Prentice on behalf of her father, and suggests Clement look at the picture of her. The photo is taken out of Paul's pocket, and when Clement studies it, he says it was a mistake, and tells his men to let Paul's body drop to the ground.
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Paul is shown the body of Saro Jane in the morgue
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Reporting the assault to the police, Paul is shown the body of Saro Jane, a girl who'd been pushing heroin, and was probably also the victim of Clement.
The man is picked up, and Paul files an assault charge against him.
While Paul is at the police station a girl, complete with vocal entourage, is brought in on a pornography charge.
As soon as he sees her face, Paul knows that this is Sara Prentice, and goes to her arraignment hearing.
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Paul suggests they plan to kill Peralta
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A man testifies about his opinion of the obscenity of a book written by Sara Prentice. that he found in his daughter's possession. During the break for lunch, Paul approaches his friend's daughter. He tells her that he's come on behalf of her father, and they go for a walk. The two hit it off well, Sara gushing about Paul's eyes being kind, and he suggesting that her father would be happy to see her in school.
So enchanted is Paul with Sara, at the end of their chat, he goes so far as to say that the reason he had been unable to find her was that he was looking for the wrong girl.
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Sara turns on her charm to the judge
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In the afternoon Sara's attorney cross examines the man who found her book of poems so prurient, and in legal definitions, manages to refute Windom's testimony
Sara then takes the stand calling herself Lavender, does little to defend her case, and makes personal remarks to the Assistant District Attorney without a word of challenge from the judge, who like Paul, seems mesmerized by her.
That evening Sara makes dinner for Paul at her home. He is now completely ready to go along with anything she says.
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Sara convinces Paul to tell her father nothing
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While he urges her to meet her father, and ease his mind, Sara believes that the less her father knows about how she lives, the more peace of mind he will have, and despite all Paul has expended in terms of time and pain in the commission Myles Prentice gave him, he agrees not to tell her father that he was able to locate her. And she goes on about the beauty of Paul's eyes,
The next day, the judge hands down his decision, finding no grounds to charge Sara on pornography charges, but he does tell her that she's a bad poet.
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Paul asks about Sara's mother
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Paul flies back to San Francisco, and tells Myles that he was unable to find Sara, then asks about her mother who committed suicide when Sara was a little girl. Myles' description of his wife matches the free spirit that Paul found in her daughter, and as he listens to Myles malign her odd and artistic inclinations, Paul feels certain that like her mother, Sara would never be understood by Myles Prentice. Paul advises Myles not to employ detectives to locate Sara, saying that, from his experience, he learned that the young people live in a world that brings up barriers as soon as someone from outside tries to break in.
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Notes & Comments: Another sadistic beating is not the least of the ills of this episode in which absolutely nothing happens.
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Barbara Hershey
as Sara Prentice
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Frank Marth as
the Assistant D.A.
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Austin Willis as
Myles Prentice
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Robert F. Simon
as the Judge
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Michael Bell as
George Travis
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Floyd Mutrux
as the Boy
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George Murdock as the Sergeant
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Richard Van Vleet
as the Policeman
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Gaye Huston as
Girl in Courtroom
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Philip Proctor
as Bobo
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Bobo Lewis as
Aunt Turkey
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Kenneth O'Brien
as Harve Crawley
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James Oliver
as Freddie
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Cec Linder as
Warren Windom
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