Strangers at the Door

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With George Chandler as Fred Mackey, Trevor Bardette as the Farmer, Lynn Carey as Patsy Hannagan, Kelly Corcoran as Dickie Hannagan, Zara Cully as the Old Woman, Tim Graham as the Mailman, Jim Boles as the Tramp, Burt Mustin as the Drunken Churchgoer, Billy M. Greene as the Second Hobo, John Francis as the First Hobo</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="459"><div> Episode 15</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> January 3, 1966</div> <div> Written by Tom Allen</div> <div> Directed by Stuart Rosenberg</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> SEE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS OF ENTIRE CAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/25_28may66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/25_28may66.htm"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1179" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 4261 ><NOBR><div> Creative Team</div> <bR> <div> Producer</div> <div>      Gordon Hessler</div> <div> Associate Producer</div> <div>      Paul Freeman</div> <div> Music</div> <div>      Pete Rugolo</div> <div> Director of Photography</div> <div>     Ray Flin</div> <div> Art Director</div> <div>      Howard E. 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HREF="exchange.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Exchange">The Exchange</A></div> </NOBR></tD> <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= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dd290180.png" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> There appears no way to leave the town</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot:</div> <bR> <div> Paul's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and the mechanic who towed it in tells him that the costs of repairing it wouldn't be worth it - if they could get the parts at all, and the garage gives him $50 to keep the vehicle.</div> <bR> <div> There is apparently no bus or train station in the town, and the garage man tells Paul that he'd even be unlikely to hitch a ride out of the place. The only possibility open, they say, would be to hop a freight train.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 325 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1115902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul and Brett begin walking the rails</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul takes the advice, and manages to board a box car with four other men in it. </div> <bR> <div> They neither assist him nor speak to him, but when he pulls out the potato pipe given to him by the mechanic, one of the fellow travelers asks him about it, then advises that they're moving west towards Salinas.</div> <bR> <div> The speaker takes out a bottle of whisky, and the other three jump him. When Paul comes to his assistance, both men are thrown out of the train, and begin walking the line in the direction they were going.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1111902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> They relish the stolen water melons</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Hungry and thirsty, they come to a farm yard where water melons are stacked up.</div> <bR> <div> Paul is worried about being caught, but they steal two, managing to knock down all the crates in the process, drawing gunfire from the farmer.</div> <bR> <div> They are able to escape, and make an encampment nearby. Paul's companion, Brett, says that he always travels alone and has never had a family. After eating the water melons, they sleep, but Paul awakes in the morning to find a shotgun pointed at him</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1113902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul challenges the farmer to shoot him</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> It is the watermelon farmer, bound on taking the two men to the county sheriff, says they can expect a year's sentence for their theft. Paul asks how much the water melons cost, but the fact that it's only a dollar doesn't deter the man.</div> <bR> <div> Paul tells him that he can't afford time, not six months or even six weeks. With the gun pointed at Paul's head, he tells them to get started, but Paul shakes his head.</div> <bR> <div> “Don't test me,” says the farmer, “cause I'll shoot.” Paul says that he doesn't believe him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="111890180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Zara Cully, Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul approaches the silent old lady</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> “You think it's worth killing a man for fifty cents?” he asks. “You're going to have to kill me,” says Paul getting up, and walking away slowly, Brett following.</div> <bR> <div> They walk the track for hours and become very thirsty. When Paul sees a water pump, he goes to get a drink, but Brett warns against this, and advises that a hobo could be shot at for doing that without asking first.</div> <bR> <div> So they enter the farm yard, and find a home-made cross with a tender message attached to it.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ddf902c0.png" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul reads out the love poem</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div>  Paul sees a lady in a rocking chair, and calls out to her, but she doesn't answer although he is very near.  She is not deaf, but in a stupor, and holds a paper in her hand. Paul takes it and reads from it a tender love poem. Hearing his voice, the old lady awakes, asking if it's her husband. Paul says no, and then she realizes that her husband is dead, and that she buried him herself.</div> <bR> <div> She tells Paul that her husband wrote the poem out and gave it to her as a marriage proposal when they were young. A vehicle drives up.  Paul runs towards it to hail the man, and Brett hides.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1110902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> They take a drink at the lady's pump</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul tells the driver that the lady is in no condition to be on her own, and the man says he'll take the woman to her sister. As he drives away they take a drink from the pump, then Brett goes back towards the house. Paul inquires where he's going, and when Brett replies that he plans to get some food, Paul says he'll break Brett's leg if he takes another step. But Brett finds some corn  in a box outside, and they eat the cobs over a campfire later. They talk about love, and the absence of it throughout Brett's life. Paul's remarks, obviously hitting a nerve, irritates Brett to the point where he hits Paul in the face.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="111a90180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul marvels at the blade of grass</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> They go on their way in the morning, and when taking a break, Paul marvels at how a blade of grass has had the perseverance to grow through a railroad tie. Brett is unimpressed.</div> <bR> <div> Eventually they come to another farmyard, and talk to a young boy with a cow. They also speak to his sister. Brett tells her that he's looking for work in exchange for food, but since she's only a visitor at her grandfather's, she doesn't know any jobs that need to be done, but offers to make sandwiches for them.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 670 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="111c902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Lynn Carey and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Patsy asks Brett what he's afraid of</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="111d902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> They luxuriate in the water gushing from the tower</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> She tells Brett that there is work at a new factory that's opening up in the nearby town where she lives, and though she says that they're welcome to eat their sandwiches in the house, Brett says he prefers to take them with him.</div> <bR> <div> Before he leaves, the girl asks Brett what he's afraid of, but he says he's not afraid. Paul goes up to her, and thanks her for the sandwiches, then hands her little brother the potato pipes he'd been playing since boarding the train.</div> <bR> <div> A while later they stop to eat the sandwiches. Paul tells Brett that the boy said that about ten miles down the track there's a bend where the train will have to slow down - and it's near a water tower.</div> <bR> <div> Then they talk about the girl, and Paul says that she couldn't take her eyes off Brett, but he replies that he's a loner.</div> <bR> <div> Eventually they reach the water tower and drink and bathe to their heart's content, laughing hysterically.  That evening, waiting for the train by a campfire. Brett brings up the girl again, and the jobs going at the new plant that is opening where she lives.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="111f902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brett talks about the girl they met</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But Brett says that he's never done anything outside picking fruit and vegetables, and wonders why she mentioned the work. Paul says that perhaps she didn't think he was the picker type. In fact, he didn't think that of Brett either.</div> <bR> <div> Brett muses on how pretty the girl was, then turns on Paul, and asks what he wants from him. Whatever Paul is selling, Brett declares that he's not buying.</div> <bR> <div> The heated moment ends when a tramp arrives. Brett tells him to leave, but Paul welcomes him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="111e902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> They consider their futures</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The stranger comments about Brett's bottle of whisky, but he makes no move to share with the tramp.</div> <bR> <div> Brett talks about his immediate plans, and Paul wonders about the future. As the others become drowsy, the tramp takes out a knife, and when Paul sees the man trying to take Brett's bottle, he goes after him and is stabbed.</div> <bR> <div> “Why didn't you let him go?” shouts Brett with concern, but Paul says they'd gone through so much trying to keep the whisky back in the freight. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 290 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="112190090.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="265" ALT="Ben Gazzara and Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brett is deeply affected by Paul's injuries</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Brett is deeply upset, but Paul says with determination that he's not going to die, and suggests that Brett go and get some help.</div> <bR> <div> “There isn't any help. Nowhere,” he responds, obviously meaning more than at this moment. But Paul says he saw a sign for a veterans' hospital about a mile back.</div> <bR> <div> “You're going to be all right,” Brett offers encouragingly. They exchange oblique words of admiration, and Brett throws away his bottle, and goes for help.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Notes & Comments: In this episode which surely must represent a dream sequence rather than actual events in Paul Bryan's life, he becomes a tramp in the manner of Waiting for Godot, and encounters a series of symbolic experiences which all directly relate to his the precarious state of his real life and demise.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://run4.us/journal/25_28may66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://run4.us/journal/25_28may66.htm"><IMG SRC="170f242c0.jpg" border=0 width="804" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1048" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dd5addc0.png" border=0 width="173" height="220" ALT="Robert Drivas in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Drivas</div> <div> as Brett</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dd094dc0.png" border=0 width="148" height="220" ALT="George Chandler in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> George Chandler</div> <div> as Fred Mackey</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ddba5dc0.png" border=0 width="165" height="220" ALT="Trevor Bardette in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Trevor Bardette</div> <div> as the Farmeri</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="de5a0dc0.png" border=0 width="160" height="220" ALT="Lynn Carey in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lynn Carey as</div> <div> Patsy Hannagan</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="de69fdc0.png" border=0 width="159" height="220" ALT=" Kelly Corcoran in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  Kelly Corcoran as</div> <div> Dickie Hannagan</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dddaddc0.png" border=0 width="173" height="220" ALT="Zara Cully in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Zara Cully as</div> <div> the Old Woman, </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="857" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="de9a3dc0.png" border=0 width="163" height="220" ALT="Jim Boles in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jim Boles as</div> <div> the Tramp</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="181"><div> <IMG SRC="dccb8dc0.png" border=0 width="184" height="220" ALT="Burt Mustin in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Burt Mustin as the Drunken Churchgoer</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dcf95dc0.png" border=0 width="149" height="220" ALT="Tim Graham in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Tim Graham as</div> <div> the Mailman</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dd497dc0.png" border=0 width="151" height="220" ALT="Billy M. Greene in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Billy M. Greene as</div> <div> the Second Hobor</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="dd3aedc0.png" border=0 width="174" height="220" ALT="John Francis in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> John Francis as</div> <div> the First Hobo</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Next Episode:  <A HREF="carnivalendsatmidnight.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Carnival Ends at Midnight">Carnival Ends at Midnight</A></div> <bR> <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> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>