Tag: Monte Hellman

Cockfighter Script

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Year:1974
Director:Monte Hellman
Written by:Charles Willeford (Screenplay), Charles Willeford (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Warren Oates plays a world-weary gambler trying to make big money cockfighting. Always on the road, he works inside and outside the rules to try to work up to the biggest fight of the year.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! Script

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Year:1989
Director:Monte Hellman
Written by:Monte Hellman (Story), Carlos Laszlo (Screenplay), Rex Weiner (Story), Arthur Gorson (Story)

Script Synopsis:Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! Script Resources:

  • Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

Other Links:
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! ( tt0098331 ) at IMDb
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! ( 42709 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Two-Lane Blacktop Script

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Year:1971
Director:Monte Hellman
Written by:Rudy Wurlitzer (Writer), Will Corry (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
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Avalanche Express Script

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Year:1979
Director:Mark Robson, Monte Hellman
Written by:Colin Forbes (Novel), Abraham Polonsky (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Avalanche Express Script Resources:

  • Avalanche Express Script PDF - [11/30/1977] at Script Fly ($)
  • Avalanche Express Script PDF - 3/9/78 5TH REVISED at Script City ($)

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