Tag: Nigel Kneale

First Men in the Moon Script

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Year:1964
Director:Nathan H. Juran
Written by:H. G. Wells (Story), Nigel Kneale (Screenplay), Jan Read (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
First Men in the Moon Script Resources:

  • First Men in the Moon Script PDF - ESTIMATING DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • First Men in the Moon 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.


Other Links:
  • First Men in the Moon ( tt0058100 ) at IMDb
  • First Men in the Moon ( 34276 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Quatermass and the Pit Script

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Year:1967
Director:Roy Ward Baker
Written by:Nigel Kneale (Screenplay), Nigel Kneale (Original Story)

Script Synopsis:An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Quatermass and the Pit Script Resources:

  • Quatermass and the Pit Script PDF - 1966 at Script City ($)
  • Quatermass and the Pit Script at Amazon ($)

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.


Other Links:
  • Quatermass and the Pit ( tt0062168 ) at IMDb
  • Quatermass and the Pit ( 26912 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Quatermass 2 Script

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Year:1957
Director:Val Guest
Written by:Val Guest (Screenplay), Nigel Kneale (Screenplay), Nigel Kneale (Teleplay)

Script Synopsis:In England, a group of space scientists, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.
Quatermass 2 Script Resources:

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Look Back in Anger Script

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Year:1959
Director:Tony Richardson
Written by:Nigel Kneale (Screenplay), John Osborne (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Look Back in Anger Script Resources:

  • Look Back in Anger Script PDF - 9/2/58 FINAL REVISED at Script City ($)

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The Stone Tape

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Year:1972
Director:Peter Sasdy
Written by:Nigel Kneale (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
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