Sidney Lumet – Scripts on Screen

Fail Safe (1964) Script

celluloid — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:48:59 +0000

Year:1964

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Eugene Burdick (Novel), Harvey Wheeler (Novel), Walter Bernstein (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

Fail Safe Script Resources:

Fail Safe Transcript at Script-O-Rama

Other Links:

Fail Safe ( tt0058083 ) at IMDb
Fail Safe ( 502 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Deathtrap Script

celluloid — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 16:48:57 +0000

Year:1982

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Jay Presson Allen (Screenplay), Ira Levin (Theatre Play), Ira Levin (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Deathtrap Script Resources:

Deathtrap Script PDF - [FINAL 02-1981] at Script Fly ($)
Deathtrap 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:

Deathtrap ( tt0083806 ) at IMDb
Deathtrap ( 17590 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Find Me Guilty Script

celluloid — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:29:42 +0000

Year:2006

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Sidney Lumet (Author), T.J. Mancini (Author), Robert J. McCrea (Author), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay), T.J. Mancini (Screenplay), Robert J. McCrea (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Find Me Guilty Script Resources:

Find Me Guilty Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Find Me Guilty 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:

Find Me Guilty ( tt0419749 ) at IMDb
Find Me Guilty ( 9950 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Fugitive Kind Script

celluloid — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:00:51 +0000

Year:1959

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Tennessee Williams (Scenario Writer), Meade Roberts (Scenario Writer)

Script Synopsis:Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

The Fugitive Kind Script Resources:

The Fugitive Kind Script PDF - 6/1/59 FINAL at Script City ($)
The Fugitive Kind Script PDF - at Script Fly ($)
The Fugitive Kind 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:

The Fugitive Kind ( tt0052832 ) at IMDb
The Fugitive Kind ( 47837 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Pawnbroker Script

celluloid — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:59:46 +0000

Year:1965

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Morton S. Fine (Screenplay), David Friedkin (Screenplay), Edward Lewis Wallant (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

The Pawnbroker Script Resources:

The Pawnbroker Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
The Pawnbroker 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:

The Pawnbroker ( tt0059575 ) at IMDb
The Pawnbroker ( 20540 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Equus Script

celluloid — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:18:58 +0000

Year:1977

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Peter Shaffer (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Equus Script Resources:

Equus Script PDF - 12/75 (XL) at Script City ($)
Equus Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Equus Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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:

Equus ( tt0075995 ) at IMDb
Equus ( 37258 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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The Wiz Script

celluloid — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:54:31 +0000

Year:1978

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:L. Frank Baum (Author), Joel Schumacher (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.

The Wiz Script Resources:

The Wiz Script PDF - 5/15/77 3RD DRAFT (missing page 4) at Script City ($)
The Wiz 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:

The Wiz ( tt0078504 ) at IMDb
The Wiz ( 24961 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Just Tell Me What You Want Script

celluloid — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:27:54 +0000

Year:1980

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Jay Presson Allen (Novel), Jay Presson Allen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.

Just Tell Me What You Want Script Resources:

Just Tell Me What You Want Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Just Tell Me What You Want Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)

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:

Just Tell Me What You Want ( tt0080975 ) at IMDb
Just Tell Me What You Want ( 184799 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Prince Of The City Script

celluloid — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:50:01 +0000

Year:1981

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:Robert Daley (Novel), Jay Presson Allen (Screenplay), Sidney Lumet (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants

Prince Of The City Script Resources:

Prince Of The City Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Prince Of The City Script PDF - (XL) FINAL DRAFT at Script City ($)
Prince Of The City 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:

Prince Of The City ( tt0082945 ) at IMDb
Prince Of The City ( 32047 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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Daniel Script

celluloid — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 04:00:17 +0000

Year:1983

Director:Sidney Lumet

Written by:E.L. Doctorow (Novel), E.L. Doctorow (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

Daniel Script Resources:

Daniel Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Daniel Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE at Script City ($)
Daniel 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.

Other Links:

Daniel ( tt0085398 ) at IMDb
Daniel ( 55819 ) at TheMovieDB.org

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