Author: celluloid

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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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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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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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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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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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.
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