Jeopardy is a 1953 suspense film directed by John Sturges. The black-and-white film stars Ralph Meeker as an escaped killer. The film was based on a 22 minute radio play, "A Question of Time."
A family, the Stilwins embark on a vacation into desolate Baja California and a remote, deserted fishing spot along the coast the father used to frequent with his old military buddies. At a roadside barricade heading into the serious Baja outback, they are inspected by police but aren’t told about a deranged killer who has escaped from prison and is at large in the area.
Upon arrival at the secret fishing spot, young Bobby goes exploring out onto a rotting pier. He can’t work his way back, and when Dad attempts to come to his son’s rescue, the pier gives way. Dad isn’t hurt, but a piling falls on his leg and traps him on the beach just as the tide is coming in. The Stilwins quickly determine that if Pop isn’t freed within a few hours, he will drown in the rising surf. All attempts to move the log are futile and wife Helen takes the car to get help. However, an escaped criminal kidnaps her. Can the woman get back to her husband before he drowns in the surf?
This jeopardy's electricin its universal appalling appeal
this look is gonna gut you 'cause it
can't afford for you to have too much inside
It's your everyday beauty pageant
It's your time in the gaze of the spotlight
It's your day to sizzle in its eye
Are you wanting to pick it up or
are you trying your best to put it down?
This jeopardy awaits you like an
impatient naked lover
The warmth of it caresses you like
sunlight through a magnifying glass
It's your everyday beauty pageant
It's your time in the gaze of the spotlight
It's your day to sizzle in its eye
Are you wanting to pick it up or
are you trying your best to put it down?
You consider you so closely
it makes you want to gouge your eyes out
They consider you so thoroughly
it makes you want to gouge their eyes out too
As the daylight starts to fade -
Twisting shadows all around.
Dead soldiers on parade -
The ghosts of Porton Down.
Hidden from the public eye, "A cause for regret"
Wrote the Brigadier-General with the chemistry set.
"Can't be more specific - the matter's confidential,
Links with other incidents are just coincidental."
In jeopardy - welcome to the lion's den,
We skate on thin ice - dice with death.
While young boys drown in seas of poison -
We are the plagiarists of breath.
We go left right left right left -
They're left in the right again.
We go right left right left right -
We've no rights left anymore.
Military science picking the locks
Of a 20th Century Pandora's box.
A father tells a son,
"The army makes a man of you."
Now all vital signs are gone -
Another joins the countless few.
Mentioned in dispatches - they tell the same old story,
'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,"
They listened to him screaming -
They sat and watched him writhe,
Taking turns observing as his body burns alive.
Rifles firing at the sky -
As the "Last Post" starts to play.
Young soldiers often die -
And the truth gets filed away.
Thomas Atkins (Private 20967),
Now reports for duty -
He's been posted up to heaven.
Enlisted by conscription - a participant unwilling.
Who didn't plan to give his life for taking the "King's Shilling".
In jeopardy - welcome to the lion's den,
We skate on thin ice - dice with death,
While young boys drown in seas of poison -
We are young
But are we strong?
We've held out
For so long.
Now we're in
Jeopardy.
Now we're in
Jeopardy, jeopardy.
We knew our
Ideals were high.
The lower we sink,
The less we care why.
I know we're in
Jeopardy.
I know we're in
Jeopardy, jeopardy.
Lost the will
To keep up the pace:
Dead on my feet,
Defeat on my face.
I know I'm in
Jeopardy.
I know I'm in
Jeopardy, jeopardy,
Jeopardy, jeopardy.
Such a slow
Steady slide
Takes away
So much inside.
And what's left?
Jeopardy.
What's left?
Jeopardy, jeopardy (3x)
Where were you
When I needed you
Well you could not be found
What can I do
Oh I believed in you
You're running me around
Well you can take it as a warning
Or take it anyway you like
It's the lightning not the thunder
You never know where it's gonna strike
Our love's in jeopardy, baby ooh (2x)
Don't be cute
Don't be funny now
It's later than you think
Oh what's the use
Save your money now
It's hanging on the brink
* Don't let go while I'm hanging on
'Cause I been hanging on so long
It's so hard to be all alone
I know you're not that strong
Our love's in jeopardy, baby oooh (2x)