Running Scared is a 1980 action/adventure film directed by Paul Glickler, starring Ken Wahl and introducing Annie McEnroe and Judge Reinhold.
Two soldiers, LeRoy Beecher (Judge Reinhold) and Chaz McClain (Ken Wahl), are just finishing a two-year Infantry tour in the Army in Panama.
The workers take the negative to two superiors (John Saxon and Bradford Dillman), who are planning an invasion of Cuba from the secret island base.
Afterward, they go to a diner where the latest music Del Shannon ("Runaway") and Ronnie Dawson ("Decided By The Angels") is playing on a jukebox and they encounter two young high school girls with a station wagon.
The next morning Chaz is searching for LeRoy when a fancy convertible driven by an attractive, rich young woman named Sallie Mae (Annie McEnroe) stops to give him a lift.
Sallie Mae consents to take Chaz to LeRoy's parents' house deep in the Everglades swamp, where her car breaks down in the driveway.
Pa Beecher's temper hits the roof when he sees Sallie Mae's broken down convertible in the driveway, as it easily gives away the location of his home and that he's running an illegal liquor operation.
Lonny Chapman who plays Pa Beecher was a cast member of a 1961-62 tv show The Everglades which starred Ron Hayes and featured the use of airboats.