Archie Mayo – Scripts on Screen

Crash Dive Script

Year:1943

Director:Archie Mayo

Written by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Story)

Script Synopsis:A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Crash Dive Script Resources:

Crash Dive Script PDF - 8/12/42 SHOOTING DRAFT at Script City ($)
Crash Dive Transcript at scripts.com

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Black Legion Script

Year:1937

Director:Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo

Written by:Robert Lord (Story), Abem Finkel (Screenplay), William Wister Haines (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Black Legion Script Resources:

Black Legion Script PDF - at Script Fly ($)
Black Legion Script PDF - XL 9/15/36 REVISED*msg8pgs at Script City ($)
Black Legion Transcript at scripts.com

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Petrified Forest Script

Year:1936

Director:Archie Mayo

Written by:Charles Kenyon (Screenplay), Delmer Daves (Screenplay), Robert E. Sherwood (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Gaby is a waitress in an isolated Arizona gas station who dreams of a bigger and better life. One day, destitute intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, Notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the gas station hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Petrified Forest Script Resources:

Petrified Forest Script PDF - [9/23/35] [miss pg. 44] at Script Fly ($)
Petrified Forest Script PDF - 9/23/35. *P at Script City ($)
Petrified Forest Transcript at scripts.com

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.