Tag: Paul Osborn

Wild River Script

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Year:1960
Director:Elia Kazan
Written by:Paul Osborn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
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East Of Eden Script

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Year:1955
Director:Elia Kazan
Written by:John Steinbeck (Author), Paul Osborn (Author)

Script Synopsis:In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estranged mother.
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South Pacific Script

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Year:1958
Director:Joshua Logan
Written by:Richard Rodgers (Theatre Play), Oscar Hammerstein II (Theatre Play), James A. Michener (Novel), Paul Osborn (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
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Portrait of Jennie

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Year:1948
Director:William Dieterle
Written by:Robert Nathan (Novel), Leonardo Bercovici (Adaptation), Paul Osborn (Screenplay), Peter Berneis (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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