Sandra Ball is a young actress who’s career was propelled by appearances in two spy thriller movies. As the result of an accident she is injured, trapped, and alone in a wooded area. She is rescued but faces a shattered career and a vastly altered life. Will that life be cut short by men more dangerous than the spies she faced on the screen?
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Sandra is the first of a series of stories with a cast common to the whole series. Other stories in the series include Jan, Karen and Denise, the one that brings them all together.
Sandra Ball walked out of the studio just after seven P.M. on Thursday. They had been shooting for over a month with only Sunday off till today. They started shooting a week late but were now ahead of schedule so they had Memorial Day weekend off. “Imagine, no work till Tuesday morning,” she had exclaimed when the announcement was made. They had less than seven days of shooting then, maybe a few retakes would extend it to nine and it was over.
The film was a spy thriller. Sandra played the blonde, mid-twenties Julia Von Meder, the niece of Sean Von Meder, the master spy played by the Hollywood hunk, Bert Roland. It was Roland’s fifth film as Sean Von Meder and Sandra’s third as Julia. She was introduced in the two previous films, the first as a beloved niece with a small part. The audiences loved her, she was discussed on internet bulletin boards, the studio took notice, the writers were notified and she was assigned a greater role in the next film. She played a peripheral role, was in danger several times, rescued by her uncle each time and finally in the last scene she shot a villain who had her uncle in his gun sights. In her third film she was number five in the credits. In the film her husband to be, an apprentice to her uncle is accidentally killed by an international gun dealer who was attempting to eliminate the competition. Julia decides to take his place to find his killer and is taken under her uncle’s wing as she learns the trade. This movie placed her in a headliner role and if it played well would set the stage for her to be offered a leading part.
Sandra got in her car and headed to a cabin in the mountains to be alone. Her sister Sally, a local market week night news anchor and their fiancées would join her Saturday afternoon. On Friday morning Sandra got breakfast, packed some food and water in a two backpacks, picked up a sleeping bag and headed out into the mountain on a four wheel mule. This was how she relaxed.
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