Tag: David Lean

Great Expectations (1946) Script

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Year:1946
Director:David Lean
Written by:Charles Dickens (Novel), Ronald Neame (Screenplay), David Lean (Screenplay), Anthony Havelock-Allan (Screenplay), Kay Walsh (Screenplay), Cecil McGivern (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Ryan’s Daughter Script

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Year:1970
Director:David Lean
Written by:Robert Bolt (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.
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Doctor Zhivago

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Year:1965
Director:David Lean
Written by:Boris Pasternak (Novel), David Lean (Screenplay), Robert Bolt (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two protagonists love each other, but because of their current situation, cannot find a way to be together.
Doctor Zhivago Script Resources:

  • Doctor Zhivago Script PDF - September 1964 shooting script at The Daily Script
  • Doctor Zhivago Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Doctor Zhivago Script PDF - (XXL) 9/64 SHOOTING *missing pg. at Script City ($)
  • Doctor Zhivago Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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Lawrence of Arabia

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Year:1962
Director:David Lean
Written by:T.E. Lawrence (Author), Robert Bolt (Screenplay), Michael Wilson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Year:1957
Director:David Lean
Written by:Pierre Boulle (Novel), Carl Foreman (Screenplay), Michael Wilson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
The Bridge on the River Kwai Script Resources:

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai Script PDF - 1ST DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • The Bridge on the River Kwai ( tt0050212 ) at IMDb
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 826 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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A Passage to India

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Year:1984
Director:David Lean
Written by:E.M. Forster (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
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