Month: April 2012

Salt of the earth

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Year:1954
Director:Herbert J. Biberman
Written by:Michael Wilson (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.
Salt of the earth Script Resources:

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Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Year:1933
Director:Michael Curtiz
Written by:Don Mullaly (Screenplay), Carl Erickson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner from burning his wax museum, and his "children". Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing; Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.
Mystery of the Wax Museum Script Resources:

  • Mystery of the Wax Museum Script PDF at The Script Savant
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum Script at aellea.com
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum Script - Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplays at Amazon ($)

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  • Mystery of the Wax Museum ( tt0024368 ) at IMDb
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum ( 32652 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Vampyr

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Year:1932
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by:Sheridan Le Fanu (Novel), Christen Jul (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.
Vampyr Script Resources:

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Maniac

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Year:1934
Director:Dwain Esper
Written by:Hildegarde Stadie (Writer)

Script Synopsis:An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Maniac Script Resources:

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Beauty and the Beast

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Year:1946
Director:Jean Cocteau
Written by:Jean Cocteau (Screenplay), Jean Cocteau (Story), Jean Cocteau (Dialogue), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (Story)

Script Synopsis:The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
Beauty and the Beast Script Resources:

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Pygmalion

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Year:1938
Director:Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Written by:George Bernard Shaw (Writer)

Script Synopsis:When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Pygmalion Script Resources:

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

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Year:1928
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by:Carl Theodor Dreyer (Screenplay), Joseph Delteil (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
The Passion of Joan of Arc Script Resources:

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  • The Passion of Joan of Arc ( tt0019254 ) at IMDb
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc ( 780 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Jazz Singer

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Year:1927
Director:Alan Crosland
Written by:Samson Raphaelson (Author), Alfred A. Cohn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
The Jazz Singer Script Resources:

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The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Year:1941
Director:William Dieterle
Written by:Stephen Vincent Benét (Screenplay), Dan Totheroh (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
The Devil and Daniel Webster Script Resources:

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  • The Devil and Daniel Webster ( tt0033532 ) at IMDb
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 29451 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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Year:1936
Director:Frank Capra
Written by:Clarence Budington Kelland (Story), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Script Resources:

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  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( tt0027996 ) at IMDb
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 24807 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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