Tag: Peter Hyams

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Script

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Year:2009
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Peter Hyams (Author), Douglas Morrow (Author)

Script Synopsis:Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Script Resources:

  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Script PDF - [UNDATED] at Script Fly ($)
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Transcript at scripts.com

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  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( tt1183251 ) at IMDb
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 25137 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Busting Script

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Year:1974
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Peter Hyams (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Two Los Angeles vice squad officers find themselves up against their corrupt superiors when they try bringing a crime boss to justice. During the courseof their investigation, the two cops disguise them-selves as gays and raid a gay bar.
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Telefon Script

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Year:1977
Director:Don Siegel
Written by:Peter Hyams (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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2010 Script

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Year:1984
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Arthur C. Clarke (Novel), Peter Hyams (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and it's sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
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Capricorn One Script

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Year:1978
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Peter Hyams (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is reported lost on re-entry. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth.
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Hanover Street Script

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Year:1979
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Peter Hyams (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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The Star Chamber Script

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Year:1983
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Roderick Taylor (Screenplay), Peter Hyams (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Steve Hardin, a young judge, must grapple with his conscience as vicious criminals in his court are going free as a result of slick lawyers finding obscure loopholes in the law. Hardin feels utterly powerless until he discovers The Star Chamber, a small group of powerful men bent on their own kind of vigilante justice. Meeting behind closed doors in the utmost secrecy, they decree their own punishment for the guilty who have slipped through the system without paying for their crimes.
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Running Scared Script

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Year:1986
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Gary DeVore (Story), Gary DeVore (Screenplay), Jimmy Huston (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
Running Scared Script Resources:

  • Running Scared Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Running Scared Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Running Scared Script PDF - [Early 7-25-2002] at Script Fly ($)
  • Running Scared Script PDF - SECOND DRAFT REVISED. 7/25/2002. at Script City ($)
  • Running Scared Script PDF - 6/28/85 2ND REVISED at Script City ($)
  • Running Scared Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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The Presidio Script

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Year:1988
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Larry Ferguson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.
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Narrow Margin Script

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Year:1990
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Peter Hyams (Screenplay), Earl Felton (Screenplay), Martin Goldsmith (Story), Jack Leonard (Story)

Script Synopsis:A L.A. District Attorney is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
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