Tag: John Ford

Wee Willie Winkie Script

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Year:1937
Director:John Ford
Written by:Ernest Pascal (Screenplay), Julien Josephson (Screenplay), Rudyard Kipling (Story)

Script Synopsis:In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
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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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My Darling Clementine Script

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Year:1946
Director:John Ford
Written by:Stuart N. Lake (Novel), Sam Hellman (Screenstory), Samuel G. Engel (Screenplay), Winston Miller (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
My Darling Clementine Script Resources:

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  • My Darling Clementine ( tt0038762 ) at IMDb
  • My Darling Clementine ( 3088 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Stagecoach

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Year:1939
Director:John Ford
Written by:Dudley Nichols (Screenplay), Ernest Haycox (Story)

Script Synopsis:A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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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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Wagon Master

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Year:1950
Director:John Ford
Written by:Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay), Patrick Ford (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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The Grapes of Wrath

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Year:1940
Director:John Ford
Written by:John Steinbeck (Author), Nunnally Johnson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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How Green Was My Valley

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Year:1941
Director:John Ford
Written by:Philip Dunne (Screenplay), Richard Llewellyn (Novel)

Script Synopsis:At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental view of pre-union miners' lives.
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  • How Green Was My Valley ( tt0033729 ) at IMDb
  • How Green Was My Valley ( 43266 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Searchers

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Year:1956
Director:John Ford
Written by:Alan Le May (Novel), Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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