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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Tears from a Glass Eye
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Synopsis: Offered $100,000 by Ralph Bronson (Gerald S. O'Loughlan) to marry his ex-wife Laura (Mary Ann Mobley), Paul believes the next man in her life, Collier Johnson (Donnelly Rhodes) to have ulterior motives. With Bill Glover as Harry, Edward Ashley as the Hotel Manager, Otis Young as Lonsy, Marianne Gordon as the Pretty Girl, Rick Young as the Young Man, Evelyn Dutton as the Pussycat Waitress, Cissy Wellman as Rosemarie McCarthy, Anthony Chazio Sr. the Hotel Servant
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Episode 43
Season 2 - #13
First broadcast on
December 12, 1966
Teleplay by Luther Davis
Directed by Leo Penn
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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
David Eric Rawlins
Unit Manager
Hilton A. Green
Assistant Director
Ronnie Rondell
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
James M. Walters
Sound
Frank H. Wilkinson
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Technicolor
Editorial Dept. Head
Richard Belding
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costumes by Grady Hunt
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Assistant to Executive Producer
Robert Foster
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Laura tells Paul she's looking for a husband, not fun
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The Plot:
Paul is enjoying the company of Laura Bronson at a St. Martin resort when her ex-husband arrives and, having investigated Paul thoroughly, offers him $100,000 to marry her, in order to be free from paying Laura half his income as alimony. Paul throws him out of his room.
The next day Laura tells Paul that her intention is to get married and have children, and when he tells her that he intends to die a single man, they part company on a friendly basis.
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After he fights with Paul, Laura goes off with Collier
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But Paul keeps a watchful eye over Laura, and is instantly suspicious when Collier Johnson arrives, and immediately begins to show her attention. Paul has Collier checked out, and then tells him to stay away from Laura. The two even get in a fight, but Laura goes off with Collier. That night Paul is almost killed by a poisonous scorpion, making him more suspicious. The next day Paul confronts Collier directly, saying that he knows that Laura's husband is paying him to marry her. Collier, saying that Bronson had made a similar proposal to himself. Collier says Paul was crazy not to take the $100,000.
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Laura tells Paul that Collier has honest eyes
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Paul goes to the salon where Laura is having her hair done, and shares his suspicions of Collier, which she doesn't believe, saying that he has honest eyes. Paul then tells Laura about her husband's offer to him, and she becomes upset, wondering why she seems so unattractive to men.
That evening Paul tells Laura that his sources couldn't find any sign of Collier, and asks Laura to dance. Collier cuts in, but it's Paul he takes away to find out whether Paul told Laura about his suspicions. Collier dances with Laura again, but she leaves him and he clowns around on the dance floor.
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Laura doesn't like Collier's attitude towards marriage
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Collier goes back to sit with Laura. She is very disappointed with his attitude towards marriage, implying that it's a bad institution. He replies that he might wed someday, but not till he's eighty, and done everything else.
Laura says she's leaving the next day, but tells her not to say goodbye, adding that a woman saying goodbye is the number one cause of getting men to propose.
But Laura does just that, and after leaving him, breaks into tears.
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Collier asks Laura's brother-in-law to show him the money
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Collier proceeds to get drunker and drunker.
Later in the evening he wanders into Timothy Bronson, brother of Laura's husband, who has just arrived on the island.
Collier wants an assurance that the $100,000 will be forthcoming before proposing to Laura, saying that Paul told him about his brother's offer.
When Collier tells him that he'd better move fast, since Laura is leaving the island the next day, the brother leaves to make arrangements.
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Collier says he wants to marry Laura
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While Laura is packing to leave, Collier comes to her balcony, claiming that there is something interesting to being a peeping Tom.
He says Laura is his girl, and she says he's not. But Collier tells her the moment she left the dance floor, he knew he had to marry her, the only problem being that it is a little inconvenient for him at the moment.
Quite against her will, Collier sweeps Laura into his arms, and carries her across the room.
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Collier tells Laura he loves her
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But Collier confesses the only real reason he didn't run after her and propose when she walked away is that he has no money.
They kiss, and he tells her that he loves her, then formally proposes to Laura. She mentions that he just said the he couldn't marry her because he had no money, but he tells her that someone just offered him $100,000 to tie the knot with her.
Laura jumps up, outraged and screaming, and begins hitting him with the nearest object to hand, then races to the bathroom in tears, and slams the door.
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Laura begs Collier to leave
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He shouts at her to come out, saying that he'd just proposed.
But a tearful Laura screams back that he should leave, and get out of her life.
Collier says he won't go leave the room until she comes out, but sobbing,
Laura tells him that if he has any decency, he will lnot stay there.
He finally departs as he came - via the balcony. Laura is heartbroken.
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Collier jumps out of the van with the minister
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The next day, Laura is being escorted to the hotel bus by the manager when a large vehicle drives up, and Paul jumps out, accompanied by her husband who greets Laura pleasantly.
But Laura angrily asks him how he could offer money to marry her off.
“It's all right,” says Paul, claiming to be the escrow holder, and offering her $100,000 if she'll marry Collier. She says it's a crazy idea, but Collier and a minister jump out of the van.
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Paul explains that Collier is from a wealthy family
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Laura is incensed, but Paul says he has some information that might help her make up her mind.
He reveals that Collier is from a wealthy and prominent family, rejecting their fortune to make it on his own.
“By marrying people?” she asks cynically, but Paul replies that Collier probably hadn't foreseen that possibility.
She asks how she'd ever know whether Collier loved her or what came with her, but Paul says that's a question many must ask.
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Laura agrees to marry Collier
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Laura suddenly decides in favor of Collier, and thanks her ex-husband before embracing her groom to be.
When the manager asks about putting her luggage in the bus or back in her room, Laura tells them to do the latter.
But Collier says to put her bags into his room instead, adding, “it's cheaper, and the money has to last us a long time - maybe 30 or 40 years at least.”
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Notes & Comments: It was inconceivable that Run For Your Life could get worse than episodes like Our Man in Limbo and Edge of the Volcano, but at least those pretended to have a serious idea behind them, and it was the script and execution that let them down.
But Tears from a Glass Eye fails in every sense, and can only represent an embarrassment to the producers. (Count on Paul staying at a resort to lower your expectati0ons for an episode.) When well done, silly stories like these can at least be entertaining, as in the case of The Sex Object.
A real waste of actors like Donnelly Rhodes and Mary Ann Mobly who, in doing their best, only seemed to make the script look worse.
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Donnelly Rhodes
as Collier Johnson
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Mary Ann Mobley
as Laura Bronson
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Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Ralph/Timothy Bronson
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Bill Glover as Harry
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Edward Ashley as
the Hotel Manager
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Otis Young
as Lonsy
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Cissy Wellman as
Rosemarie McCarthy
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Anthony Chazio Sr.
the Hotel Servant
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