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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Where Mystery Begins
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Synopsis: Paul successfully defends Louise Brode (Dana Wynter) on a charge of murdering her husband when her regular lawyer, Martin Shawe (Keith Andes), is injured, but Paul suspects Shawe's tactics, and feels compromised. With Cyril Delevanti as Judge Kleiner, Ian Wolfe as Dr. Stanley Brickow, Walter Brooke as the Examiner, Booth Colman as Prosecutor Coleman, Tom Allen as Frank Tiesen, Ben Lynch as George Hanson, Byron Morrow as Carter, Hugh Douglas as the TV Newscaster, Dale Johnson as the Bailiff, Arthur Adams as the Court Clerk, Don Dillway as the Jury Foreman, Jim Bacon as the 1st Reporter, Barry Brooks as the 2nd Reporter, Karen Flynn as the Assistant
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Episode 7
First broadcast on
November 1, 1965
Brooke as the Examiner
Written by John Thomas James
(Roy Huggins)
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
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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
Robert Watts A.C.E.
Unit Manager
Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director
Jack Doran
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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Shaw asks Paul to take over a murder case for him
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The Plot:
A skiing accident puts criminal trial lawyer Martin Shawe in the hospital
He therefore asks Paul to take over defence of client Louise Brode who confessed to killing her husband.
Though suspicious of his highly competitive colleague, Paul takes the assignment.
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Dr. Brickow gives expert testimony
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Shawe has based his case on the testimony of a psychiatrist who interviewed the defendant under “truth serum.”
Although there is a precedent to not admitting such testimony, Paul is allowed to question this witness who states that Louise told him that she would have liked to kill her husband, but didn't.
The doctor believes that her confession was made out of guilt for having that desire.
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Louise refuses to take the stand
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Because the prosecution will present countless witnesses against the validity of the doctor's testimony, Paul asks Louise to take the stand.
Nevertheless, she refuses.
As the jury is about to come in, Paul visits Shawe in the hospital.
He tells the bed-ridden lawyer that, if he coached Louise before she was put under truth serum, Paul will see to it that Shawe never walks into a courtroom again.
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Paul warns Shawe about his tricks
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Shawe counters that Paul is a hypocrite.
He declares, “if you loved the law so damn much, you wouldn't have sold out to go jetting around the world.”
Paul replies, “if I find out you coached Louise Brode before you took her to Brickow, I'll stop jetting around the world long enough ….”
But the phone interrupts his flow of conversation with the news that the jury has returned with a verdict - which is not guilty.
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Louise tells Paul about her marriage
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Paul takes Louise out for a drink and advises her that the district attorney will want to speak to her tomorrow as part of opening up a new investigation into who killed her husband.
She says that many people hated the man, and goes on to talk about the unfortunate marriage she began at the age of 17.
She says that she doesn't want to go home, but to a hotel. However, Paul counsels that will bring the press on her, and with servants at home, she'll be better off.
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A tense Louise wants to leave soon as she gets home
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Louise remains reluctant, so Paul volunteers to stay in the guest room for the night.
Reporters surround the house and the phone is ringing, and Louise nervously begs Paul to take her to a hotel. He suggests that they wait until the reporters disperse. A tense silence exists between them as they sit opposite one another, Louise still in her fur coat, then she jumps from the sofa in panic to get out of the house. Paul stops her and says she must act as innocent as the jury found her, if not for her own sake, than for Shawe's. Paul implies that he was privy to everything about the defence of her case
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Paul implies he knows Louise was coached
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Louise is inclined to ring the lawyer. Referring to the fact that Shawe may have coached her before the visit to the psychiatrist, Paul says she has nothing to fear, that he isn't trying to trap her, and in any case, she couldn't be tried twice for the same crime. It's Shawe who's in danger,
Paul tells her, because to use fraud or chicane in the defense of a client is not permitted, and when Shawe drilled her in what to say to Dr. Brickow, that was chicane, and could get him disbarred - even charged with a felony.
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Paul tells Shawe he's filing a complaint against him
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The truth emerges when Louise says“why didn't you tell me that you knew?”
When Paul confronts him, Shawe is defiant, but Paul's first tactic is reasonable, saying that if Shawe had levelled with him, he would have refused the case, and let Shawe be his own conscience ….. but now, Paul must make sure Shawe never enters a court again.
Shawe is derisive about Paul's ethics, but Paul says that Shaw not only committed fraud, but also involved Paul in it.
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With Hanson's help, Paul locates Louise
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And he adds that next time, Shawe could let loose a pathological killer.
Paul leaves quoting Edmund Burke, “where mystery begins, justice ends.”
Shawe phones Louise immediately, and gets her to hide out at a down-at-heel hotel, but with assistance, Paul locates her.
At first she refuses to speak to him, but unable to reach Shawe, she finally lets him in. He talks to her about the murder and her actions, and says that she can't live with the verdict.
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Paul warns Louise to tell the truth at the hearing
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Paul asks her to tell the truth at the Shawe hearing, and says that she can live with that honesty.
Louise tells him she had been under the impression that she might have received a death sentence, but Shawe never told her that would have been impossible in this sort of case.
Paul replies, that if convicted, she could have gotten parole within four years. It appears clear that Shawe's only motive was winning at all costs.
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Louise gives false testimony against Paul, then recants
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Nevertheless, at the hearing, Louise testifies that she wasn't coached. Then Shawe's lawyer asks her about the evening of the verdict, and Louise claimss that Paul repeatedly made unwanted advances at her. Paul asks her no questions, nor denies or confirms her accusation, but merely looks at Louise closely.
The hearing is recessed, and as the panel gets up to leave, Louise suddenly recants her testimony, saying that Shawe coached her for a week to make Dr. Bricklow believe she didn't kill her husband, but that she did.
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  Notes & Comments: At last, this is an episode indicative of the standard Run For Your Life maintained for much of the series run.
Paul Bryan, perhaps recovered from the initial shock of his diagnosis, displays the traits most associated with him - strength of character, a great sense of morality, compassion and intellect - as opposed to the casual vagabond who inhabited the pilot and first six outings.
The story is strong and holds together well with a variety of scenes to keep up the visual interest, and enough twists to be fascinating as well as thought-provoking.
Though one must suspend logic a bit that Paul would take on any legal case at all, much less one in a field apparently not his, perhaps it can be accepted that this is a diversion akin to his others.
Fine performances by the entire cast make this a star episode.
part 1
part 2
and watch a video clip from the episode on the same page!
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Dana Wynter as
Louise Brode
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Keith Andes as
Martin Shawe
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Cyril Delevanti as
Judge Kleiner
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Ian Wolfe as
Dr. Stanley Brickow
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Walter Brooke as
the Examiner
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Booth Colman as
Prosecutor Coleman
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Tom Allen as
Frank Tiesen
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Ben Lynch as
George Hanson
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Byron Morrow
as Carter
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Hugh Douglas as
the TV Newscaster
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Dale Johnson
as the Bailiff
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Arthur Adams as
the Court Clerk
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Don Dillway as
the Jury Foreman
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Jim Bacon as
the 1st Reporter
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Barry Brooks as
the 2nd Reporter
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Karen Flynn as
the Assistant
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