Tag: Arthur Hiller

The Babe Script

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Year:1992
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:John Fusco (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
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Tobruk Script

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Year:1967
Director:Arthur Hiller

Script Synopsis:In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
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W.C. Fields and Me Script

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Year:1976
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Bob Merrill (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Film biography of actor-comedian W.C. Fields, concentrating on his years in Hollywood and his relationship with aspiring actress Carlotta Monti.
W.C. Fields and Me Script Resources:

  • W.C. Fields and Me Script PDF - 12/1/74 1ST DRAFT at Script City ($)

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The Man in the Glass Booth Script

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Year:1975
Director:Arthur Hiller

Script Synopsis:Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished when, one day, Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being not a Jewish businessman but a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt--but their own.
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  • The Man in the Glass Booth ( tt0073345 ) at IMDb
  • The Man in the Glass Booth ( 48364 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Man of La Mancha Script

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Year:1973
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Dale Wasserman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other prisoners gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, and begin a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense--the story of Don Quixote.
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The Americanization Of Emily Script

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Year:1964
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay), William Bradford Huie (Novel)

Script Synopsis:During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie being sent on a senseless and dangerous mission.
The Americanization Of Emily Script Resources:

  • The Americanization Of Emily Script PDF - 11/14/63 REV at Script City ($)
  • The Americanization Of Emily Script PDF - [DRAFT 1963] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Americanization Of Emily Transcript at scripts.com

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  • The Americanization Of Emily ( tt0057840 ) at IMDb
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Plaza Suite Script

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Year:1971
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Neil Simon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
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Silver Streak Script

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Year:1976
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Colin Higgins (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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Nightwing Script

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Year:1979
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Steve Shagan (Screenplay), Bud Shrake (Screenplay), Martin Cruz Smith (Screenplay), Martin Cruz Smith (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
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Author! Author! Script

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Year:1982
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Israel Horovitz (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
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