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Pinocchio Script

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Year:1940
Director:Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney, William Roberts, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson
Written by:Carlo Collodi (Novel), Ted Sears (Adaptation), Otto Englander (Adaptation), Webb Smith (Adaptation), William Cottrell (Adaptation), Joseph Sabo (Adaptation), Erdman Penner (Adaptation), Aurelius Battaglia (Adaptation), Albert Hurter (Characters), Joe Grant (Characters), John P. Miller (Characters), Campbell Grant (Characters), Martin Provensen (Characters), John Walbridge (Characters)

Script Synopsis:Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he's worthy as he sets off on an adventure with his whistling sidekick and conscience, Jiminy Cricket.
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Anna and the King of Siam Script

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Year:1946
Director:John Cromwell
Written by:Talbot Jennings (Screenplay), Sally Benson (Screenplay), Margaret Landon (Book)

Script Synopsis:In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Anna and the King of Siam Script Resources:

  • Anna and the King of Siam Script PDF - 10/15/1945 at Script City ($)

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  • Anna and the King of Siam ( tt0038303 ) at IMDb
  • Anna and the King of Siam ( 43471 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Great Expectations (1946) Script

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Year:1946
Director:David Lean
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), David Lean (Screenplay), Ronald Neame (Screenplay), Anthony Havelock-Allan (Screenplay), Kay Walsh (Screenplay), Cecil McGivern (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Script

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Year:1947
Director:Norman Z. McLeod
Written by:James Thurber (Story), Ken Englund (Screenplay), Everett Freeman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Script Resources:

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.


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  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( tt0039808 ) at IMDb
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 40092 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Out of the Past Script

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Year:1947
Director:Jacques Tourneur
Written by:Daniel Mainwaring (Screenplay), Daniel Mainwaring (Novel), James M. Cain (Writer), Frank Fenton (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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Chicken Every Sunday Script

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Year:1949
Director:George Seaton
Written by:Valentine Davies (Writer), George Seaton (Writer), Julius J. Epstein (Theatre Play), Philip G. Epstein (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
Chicken Every Sunday Script Resources:

  • Chicken Every Sunday Script PDF - 8/11/1972 at Script City ($)

Other Links:
  • Chicken Every Sunday ( tt0040229 ) at IMDb
  • Chicken Every Sunday ( 199727 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Orpheus Script

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Year:1950
Director:Jean Cocteau
Written by:Jean Cocteau (Writer)

Script Synopsis:At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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On Dangerous Ground Script

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Year:1951
Director:Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Written by:Nicholas Ray (Adaptation), A.I. Bezzerides (Adaptation), A.I. Bezzerides (Screenplay), Gerald Butler (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
On Dangerous Ground Script Resources:

  • On Dangerous Ground Script PDF - [4-26-1950] at Script Fly ($)
  • On Dangerous Ground Transcript at scripts.com

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A Place in the Sun Script

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Year:1951
Director:George Stevens
Written by:Theodore Dreiser (Novel), Michael Wilson (Screenplay), Harry Brown (Screenplay), Patrick Kearney (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
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