Tag: Jack Finney

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Script

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Year:1956
Director:Don Siegel
Written by:Daniel Mainwaring (Screenplay), Jack Finney (Novel), Richard Collins (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 11549 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Good Neighbor Sam Script

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Year:1964
Director:David Swift
Written by:David Swift (Screenplay), Jack Finney (Novel)

Script Synopsis:To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
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Assault on a Queen Script

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Year:1966
Director:Jack Donohue
Written by:Jack Finney (Novel), Rod Serling (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
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Invasion Script

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Year:2007
Director:Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
Written by:Jack Finney (Novel), David Kajganich (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Script

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Year:1978
Director:Philip Kaufman
Written by:W.D. Richter (Screenplay), Jack Finney (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
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  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Script PDF - [Richter] [1st] at Script Fly ($)
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ( tt0077745 ) at IMDb
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ( 11850 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Body Snatchers Script

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Year:1993
Director:Abel Ferrara
Written by:Jack Finney (Novel), Raymond Cistheri (Screenplay), Larry Cohen (Screenplay), Stuart Gordon (Screenplay), Dennis Paoli (Screenplay), Nicholas St. John (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
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