Tag: Colin Welland

Yanks Script

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Year:1979
Director:John Schlesinger
Written by:Colin Welland (Story), Colin Welland (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
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War Of The Buttons Script

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Year:1994
Director:John Roberts
Written by:Colin Welland (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy
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A Dry White Season

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Year:1989
Director:Euzhan Palcy
Written by:Colin Welland (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
A Dry White Season Script Resources:

  • A Dry White Season Script PDF - May 1987 Revised First Draft at The Daily Script
  • A Dry White Season Script - 1987-05 Draft at IMSDb
  • A Dry White Season Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • A Dry White Season Script PDF - 9/23/88 FINAL SHOOTING at Script City ($)

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Chariots of Fire

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Year:1981
Director:Hugh Hudson
Written by:Colin Welland (Novel), Colin Welland (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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