Maxwell Anderson – Scripts on Screen

What Price Glory Script

Year:1952

Director:John Ford

Written by:Phoebe Ephron (Screenplay), Henry Ephron (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), Laurence Stallings (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.

What Price Glory Script Resources:

What Price Glory Script PDF - 11/20/51 SHOOTING at Script City ($)
What Price Glory 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.

Key Largo Script

Year:1948

Director:John Huston

Written by:Richard Brooks (Screenplay), John Huston (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

Key Largo Script Resources:

Key Largo Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Key Largo Script PDF - 3/19/48 REVISED FINAL at Script City ($)
Key Largo 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.

The Bad Seed Script

Year:1956

Director:Mervyn LeRoy

Written by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), William March (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

The Bad Seed Script Resources:

The Bad Seed Script PDF - 11/21/55 REVISED FINAL. *pg. at Script City ($)
The Bad Seed Script PDF - [miss pg 48] at Script Fly ($)
The Bad Seed 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.