Tag: John Frankenheimer

99 and 44/100% Dead! Script

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Year:1974
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Robert Dillon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
99 and 44/100% Dead! Script Resources:

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead! Script PDF - 7/27/1973 at Script City ($)

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  • 99 and 44/100% Dead! ( tt0071089 ) at IMDb
  • 99 and 44/100% Dead! ( 52661 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Script

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Year:1962
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:George Axelrod (Screenplay), Richard Condon (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
The Manchurian Candidate Script Resources:

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  • The Manchurian Candidate ( tt0056218 ) at IMDb
  • The Manchurian Candidate ( 982 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Fixer Script

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Year:1968
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Bernard Malamud (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
The Fixer Script Resources:

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The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story Script

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Year:1994
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Michael Tolkin (Writer), Ron Hutchinson (Writer), William Mastrosimone (Writer), Andrew Revkin (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder
The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story Script Resources:

  • The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story Script PDF - CABLE 1/7/94 at Script City ($)

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  • The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story ( tt0109351 ) at IMDb
  • The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story ( 167891 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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52 Pick-Up Script

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Year:1986
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Elmore Leonard (Screenplay), John Steppling (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
52 Pick-Up Script Resources:

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Seconds Script

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Year:1966
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:David Ely (Novel), Lewis John Carlino (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.
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Birdman Of Alcatraz Script

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Year:1962
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Thomas E. Gaddis (Novel), Guy Trosper (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Birdman Of Alcatraz Script Resources:

  • Birdman Of Alcatraz Script PDF - 12/15/60 REVISED DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • Birdman Of Alcatraz Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Birdman Of Alcatraz Transcript at scripts.com

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Black Sunday Script

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Year:1977
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:Thomas Harris (Novel), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay), Kenneth Ross (Screenplay), Ivan Moffat (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.
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The Holcroft Covenant Script

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Year:1985
Director:John Frankenheimer

Script Synopsis:A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past--but his son has to search the world to find it
The Holcroft Covenant Script Resources:

  • The Holcroft Covenant Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • The Holcroft Covenant Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)

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  • The Holcroft Covenant ( tt0089283 ) at IMDb
  • The Holcroft Covenant ( 35201 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Dead-Bang Script

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Year:1989
Director:John Frankenheimer
Written by:John Frankenheimer (Author), Jerry Beck (Author)

Script Synopsis:Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
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