Jo Swerling – Scripts on Screen

Crash Dive Script

celluloid — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:05:52 +0000

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.

Crash Dive Script Resources:

Crash Dive Script PDF - 8/12/42 SHOOTING DRAFT at Script City ($)
Crash Dive 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.

Other Links:

Crash Dive ( tt0035763 ) at IMDb
Crash Dive ( 74012 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Gone with the Wind Script

celluloid — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 04:38:17 +0000

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.

Gone with the Wind Script Resources:

Gone with the Wind Script PDF at Script Slug
Gone with the Wind Script PDF at The Daily Script
Gone with the Wind Script at Amazon ($)
Gone with the Wind Transcript at archive.org

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.

Other Links:

Gone with the Wind ( tt0031381 ) at IMDb
Gone with the Wind ( 770 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Blood And Sand Script

celluloid — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:28:33 +0000

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.

Blood And Sand Script Resources:

Blood And Sand Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Blood And Sand 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.

Other Links:

Blood And Sand ( tt0033405 ) at IMDb
Blood And Sand ( 44399 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Leave Her To Heaven Script

celluloid — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 04:15:37 +0000

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.

Leave Her To Heaven Script Resources:

Leave Her To Heaven Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Leave Her To Heaven 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.

Other Links:

Leave Her To Heaven ( tt0037865 ) at IMDb
Leave Her To Heaven ( 17645 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Platinum Blonde

celluloid — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:20:50 +0000

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.

Platinum Blonde Script Resources:

Platinum Blonde Script PDF at The Script Savant
Platinum Blonde Script at IMSDb
Platinum Blonde Script at The Daily Script
Platinum Blonde Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)
Platinum Blonde Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

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.

Other Links:

Platinum Blonde ( tt0022268 ) at IMDb
Platinum Blonde ( 26884 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Whole Town’s Talking

celluloid — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:39:23 +0000

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 ($)

Other Links:

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

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Lifeboat

celluloid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:43:16 +0000

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.

Lifeboat Script Resources:

Lifeboat Script at Hitchcock Wiki
Lifeboat Script PDF - [light print] at Script Fly ($)
Lifeboat Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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.

Other Links:

Lifeboat ( tt0037017 ) at IMDb
Lifeboat ( 13321 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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