Tag: Jo Swerling

Crash Dive Script

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Year:1943
Director:Archie Mayo
Written by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Story)

Script Synopsis:A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Gone with the Wind Script

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Year:1939
Director:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Written by:Margaret Mitchell (Novel), Sidney Howard (Screenplay), Oliver H.P. Garrett (Writer), Ben Hecht (Writer), Jo Swerling (Writer), John Van Druten (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
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Blood And Sand Script

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Year:1941
Director:Rouben Mamoulian
Written by:Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Writer), Jo Swerling (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Leave Her To Heaven Script

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Year:1945
Director:John M. Stahl
Written by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Ben Ames Williams (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
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Platinum Blonde

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Year:1931
Director:Frank Capra
Written by:Harry Chandlee (Story), Douglas W. Churchill (Story), Robert Riskin (Dialogue), Jo Swerling (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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The Whole Town’s Talking

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Year:1935
Director:John Ford
Written by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
The Whole Town's Talking Script Resources:

  • The Whole Town's Talking Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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  • The Whole Town's Talking ( tt0027214 ) at IMDb
  • The Whole Town's Talking ( 52561 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Lifeboat

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Year:1944
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:John Steinbeck (Writer), Jo Swerling (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
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