Tag: Jack Arnold

The Tattered Dress Script

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Year:1957
Director:Jack Arnold
Written by:George Zuckerman (Writer)

Script Synopsis:After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man Script

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Year:1957
Director:Jack Arnold
Written by:Richard Matheson (Novel), Richard Matheson (Screenplay), Richard Alan Simmons (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.
The Incredible Shrinking Man Script Resources:

  • The Incredible Shrinking Man Script PDF - [5-17-56] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man Script PDF - 5/7/56 REVISED DRAFT. at Script City ($)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man 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.


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  • The Incredible Shrinking Man ( tt0050539 ) at IMDb
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 31682 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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It Came From Outer Space Script

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Year:1953
Director:Jack Arnold
Written by:Harry Essex (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Story)

Script Synopsis:Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
It Came From Outer Space Script Resources:

  • It Came From Outer Space Script PDF - 5/53 FINAL at Script City ($)
  • It Came From Outer Space Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • It Came From Outer Space 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.


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  • It Came From Outer Space ( tt0045920 ) at IMDb
  • It Came From Outer Space ( 19483 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Creature From The Black Lagoon Script

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Year:1954
Director:Jack Arnold
Written by:Harry Essex (Screenplay), Arthur A. Ross (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.
The Creature From The Black Lagoon Script Resources:

  • The Creature From The Black Lagoon Script PDF - 8/28/1953 at Script City ($)
  • The Creature From The Black Lagoon Script PDF - [Some pages cut off on right side-One very dark page] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Creature From The Black Lagoon 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.


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  • The Creature From The Black Lagoon ( tt0046876 ) at IMDb
  • The Creature From The Black Lagoon ( 10973 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Tarantula Script

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Year:1955
Director:Jack Arnold
Written by:Robert M. Fresco (Screenplay), Martin Berkeley (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.
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