Author: celluloid

Thieves Like Us Script

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Year:1974
Director:Robert Altman

Script Synopsis:Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
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The Towering Inferno Script

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Year:1974
Director:John Guillermin
Written by:Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay), Richard Martin Stern (Novel), Thomas N. Scortia (Novel), Frank M. Robinson (Novel)

Script Synopsis:At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
The Towering Inferno Script Resources:

  • The Towering Inferno Script PDF - 3/29/74 2ND REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT. at Script City ($)
  • The Towering Inferno Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Towering Inferno Transcript at scripts.com

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The Day Of The Locust Script

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Year:1975
Director:John Schlesinger
Written by:Nathanael West (Novel), Waldo Salt (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
The Day Of The Locust Script Resources:

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  • The Day Of The Locust ( tt0072848 ) at IMDb
  • The Day Of The Locust ( 5122 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Black Bird Script

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Year:1975
Director:David Giler

Script Synopsis:The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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Black Moon Script

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Year:1975
Director:Louis Malle
Written by:Louis Malle (Writer), Joyce Buñuel (Dialogue)

Script Synopsis:There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio...
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A Boy And His Dog Script

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Year:1975
Director:L.Q. Jones
Written by:Harlan Ellison (Novel), L.Q. Jones (Author)

Script Synopsis:Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
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Cooley High Script

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Year:1975
Director:Michael Schultz
Written by:Eric Monte (Writer)

Script Synopsis:In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school.
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Devil’s Rain Script

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Year:1975
Director:Robert Fuest
Written by:Gabe Essoe (Writer), James Ashton (Writer), Gerald Hopman (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Satanists in the middle west terrorize and sometimes melt the terrified locals.
Devil's Rain Script Resources:

  • Devil's Rain Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Devil's Rain Script PDF - FINAL DRAFT NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)

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Drowning Pool Script

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Year:1975
Director:Stuart Rosenberg
Written by:Tracy Keenan Wynn (Screenplay), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Screenplay), Walter Hill (Screenplay), Ross Macdonald (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
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Farewell My Lovely Script

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Year:1975
Director:Dick Richards
Written by:Raymond Chandler (Novel), David Zelag Goodman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:LA private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling) and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden. Soaked in 1940s period detail, Farewell, My Lovely is a neo noir remake of the 1944 film but it follows the original Raymond Chandler's novel more closely.
Farewell My Lovely Script Resources:

  • Farewell My Lovely Script PDF - 3/31/75 REVISED FINAL at Script City ($)
  • Farewell My Lovely Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Farewell My Lovely Transcript at scripts.com

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