Tag: Jack Kirkland

Tobacco Road Script

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Year:1941
Director:John Ford
Written by:Erskine Caldwell (Novel), Jack Kirkland (Theatre Play), Nunnally Johnson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Mandingo

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Year:1975
Director:Richard Fleischer
Written by:Kyle Onstott (Novel), Jack Kirkland (Writer), Norman Wexler (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
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