Run for Doom story
A doctor plans to marry a soloist, despite the fact that her three previous husbands all met gruesome deaths. Directed by: Bernard Girard. Story by: James Bridges (teleplay), Henry Kane (novel).
19 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| greed for riches | choice | As alluded to in the title, the story hinges on the relationship of a blue-eyed eligible young physician who unwisely marries a cold-hearted man-eating gold digger. |
| domestic violence | major | Nickie, her manager Bill's "Boomerang Baby", was in a clearly abusive on-again off-again relationship with him. Bill slapped Nickie across the face at one point, and later strangled her nearly to the brink of death. |
| femme fatale | major | The glamorous nightclub singer Nickie Carole wrapped Don around her finger and then married him for his money. What is more, she had a history of marrying well off men who mysteriously died soon after. |
| infatuation | major | The young physician Don Reed was head over heels for the glamorous nightclub singer, Nickie Carole, and succeeded in winning her hand in marriage before long, but ultimately came to regret it. |
| newlywed couple | major | The young physician Don Reed got more than he bargained for when he succeeded in gaining the gold digging nightclub singer Nickie Carole's hand in marriage. |
| spouse murder | major | The story culminated with Don deftly asphyxiating his disagreeable other when he though she was already presumed asphyxiated. Alas, to his misfortune there was a witness that knew her to have been alive. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Don grieved over the death of his father and expressed a brief feeling of remorse that he might have contributed to the man's heart attack by insisting on marrying Nickie against his will. |
| disapproving parent | minor | Horace Reed had the measure of his son's fiancé in the blink of an eye and did not approve for an instance. |
| father and son | minor | Don's father cautioned his son against marrying the femme fatal Nickie, but he didn't listen. |
| flirtation | minor | Nickie blatantly flirted with a man on the ship deck right under her husband's nose. |