Nathanael West – Scripts on Screen

Five Came Back Script

Year:1939

Director:John Farrow

Written by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Nathanael West (Screenplay), Richard Carroll (Story), Jerome Cady (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.

Five Came Back Script Resources:

Five Came Back Script PDF - [DRAFT JERRY CADY - DALTON TRUMBO] at Script Fly ($)
Five Came Back 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.

Stranger on the Third Floor Script

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Year:1940

Director:Boris Ingster

Written by:Frank Partos (Screenplay), Nathanael West (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Newspaper reporter John McGuire plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Stranger on the Third Floor Script Resources:

Stranger on the Third Floor Script PDF - [SHOOTING] at Script Fly ($)
Stranger on the Third Floor 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.

The Day Of The Locust Script

Year:1975

Director:John Schlesinger

Written by:Nathanael West (Novel), Waldo Salt (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

The Day Of The Locust Script Resources:

The Day Of The Locust Script PDF - 10/12/73 REVISED at Script City ($)
The Day Of The Locust Script PDF - [miss pgs 59,60] at Script Fly ($)
The Day Of The Locust Transcript at subslikescript.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.