Hold Back The Dawn Script

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Year:1941
Director:Mitchell Leisen
Written by:Ketti Frings (Story), Charles Brackett (Writer), Billy Wilder (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Five Graves To Cairo Script

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Year:1942
Director:Billy Wilder
Written by:Charles Brackett (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Lajos Biró (Story)

Script Synopsis:The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
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Niagara Script

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Year:1953
Director:Henry Hathaway
Written by:Charles Brackett (Writer), Walter Reisch (Writer), Richard L. Breen (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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Journey To The Center Of The Earth Script

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Year:1959
Director:Henry Levin
Written by:Jules Verne (Novel), Walter Reisch (Screenplay), Charles Brackett (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Ninotchka

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Year:1939
Director:Ernst Lubitsch
Written by:Charles Brackett (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Walter Reisch (Screenplay), Melchior Lengyel (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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The Lost Weekend

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Year:1945
Director:Billy Wilder
Written by:Charles R. Jackson (Novel), Charles Brackett (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
*4599

Sunset Boulevard

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Year:1950
Director:Billy Wilder
Written by:Charles Brackett (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), D.M. Marshman Jr. (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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