Author: celluloid

Straight to Hell

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Year:1987
Director:Alex Cox
Written by:Alex Cox (Author), Dick Rude (Author)

Script Synopsis:A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
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The Lost Son

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Year:1999
Director:Chris Menges
Written by:Eric Leclere (Writer), Margaret Leclere (Writer), Mark Mills (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
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Queen of the Damned

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Year:2002
Director:Michael Rymer
Written by:Scott Abbott (Screenplay), Michael Petroni (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?
Queen of the Damned Script Resources:

  • Queen of the Damned Script PDF - August 2000 Late Production Draft at The Daily Script
  • Queen of the Damned Script at angelfire.com
  • Queen of the Damned Script - 2000-08 Draft at IMSDb
  • Queen of the Damned Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Queen of the Damned Script PDF - 2/4/00 REVISED at Script City ($)
  • Queen of the Damned Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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The Scarlet Letter

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Year:1995
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel), Douglas Day Stewart (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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Sounder

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Year:1972
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Lonne Elder III (Screenplay), William H. Armstrong (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
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Zulu Dawn

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Year:1979
Director:Douglas Hickox
Written by:Cy Endfield (Screenplay), Anthony Story (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Viridiana

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Year:1961
Director:Luis Buñuel
Written by:Julio Alejandro (Screenplay), Luis Buñuel (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
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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.
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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.
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