| Green Zone |
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(aka Imperial Life in the Emerald City)
Undated, unspecified draft by Paul Greengrass.
Based on “Imperial Life in the Emeral City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
Synopsis: Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer (Damon) to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons on Mass Destruction in an unstable region.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 111 – Size: 2.1 MB – IMDb
| Remember Me (2008.10.27 Draft) |
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(aka Memoirs)
October 27, 2008 Revised Draft by William Fetters.
Synopsis: A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother’s suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother’s murder.
Source: Digital – Pages: 111 – Size: 199 kb – IMDb
| Remember Me (2009.04.16 Draft) |
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(aka Memoirs)
April 16, 2009 Revised Draft by William Fetters.
Revisions by Jenny Lumet.
Synopsis: A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother’s suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother’s murder.
Source: Digital – Pages: 109 – Size: 186 kb – IMDb
| She’s Out of My League |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Sean Anders & John Morris.
Synopsis: An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship.
Source: Digital – Pages: 111 – Size: 167 kb – IMDb
| Darling |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Frederic Raphael.
Synopsis: A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 126 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
| Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner |
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March 17, 1967 Revised Final Draft by William Rose.
Synopsis: Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts. Also contains several pages of the shooting schedule at the end of the script.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 150 – Size: 6.2 MB – IMDb
| Man for All Seasons, A |
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May 4, 1966 Revised Draft by Robert Bolt.
Synopsis: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 134 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
| Adaptation (1999.09.24 Draft) |
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September 24, 1999 Second Draft by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman.
Adapted from the book “The Orchid Thief” by Susan Orlean.
Synopsis: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
Source: Digital – Pages: 118 – Size: 278 kb – IMDb
| Adaptation (2000.11.21 Draft) |
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November 21, 2000 Revised Draft by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman.
Adapted from the book “The Orchid Thief” by Susan Orlean.
Synopsis: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
Source: Digital – Pages: 130 – Size: 305 kb – IMDb
| African Queen, The |
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1951 Shooting Script by James Agee, John Huston, and Peter Viertel.
Based on a novel by C.S. Forester.
Synopsis: In Africa during WWI, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
Source: Digital – Pages: 153 – Size: 187 kb
Source: Scanned – Pages: 138 – Size: 953 kb – IMDb
| Apocalypse Now (1969.12.05 Draft) |
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December 5, 1969 First Draft by John Milius.
Synopsis: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 133 – Size: 5.2 MB – IMDb
| Apocalypse Now (1975.12.03 Draft) |
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December 3, 1975 Revised Draft by John Milius.
This draft by Francis Ford Coppola. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.”
Synopsis: During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 155 – Size: 4.9 MB – IMDb
| Being John Malkovich |
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August 4, 1995 Draft by Charlie Kaufman.
Synopsis: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 115 – Size: 2.9 MB – IMDb
| Being There |
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January 10, 1979 Shooting Script by Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones.
From the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.
Synopsis: Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.
Source: Digital – Pages: 101 – Size: 117 kb – IMDb
| Bridge on the River Kwai, The |
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Undated First Draft by Pierre Boulle.
Synopsis: After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 155 – Size: 7.0 MB – IMDb
| Broadcast News |
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January 24, 1987 Revised Second Draft by James L. Brooks.
Synopsis: Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 138 – Size: 5.7 MB – IMDb
| Cool Hand Luke |
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September 29, 1966 Revised Final Draft by Frank R. Pierson and Hal Dresner.
Based on the novel by Donn Pearce.
Synopsis: A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.
Notes: Includes parts of the original shooting schedule at the end of the script.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 157 – Size: 7.0 MB – IMDb
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
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January 27, 1963 Revised Draft by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George.
Synopsis: An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 148 – Size: 2.6 MB – IMDb
| Field of Dreams |
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(aka Shoeless Joe)
Undated, unspecified draft by Phil Alden Robinson.
Synopsis: An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 116 – Size: 3.0 MB – IMDb
| Goodfellas |
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January 12, 1989 Revised Draft by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese.
Based on the book by Nicholas Pileggi.
Synopsis: Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 126 – Size: 2.3 MB – IMDb
| Graduate, The |
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March 29, 1967 Final Draft by Buck Henry.
Synopsis: Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
Source: Digital – Pages: 144 – Size: 145 kb – IMDb
| Grapes of Wrath, The |
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1940 Shooting Script by Nunnally Johnson.
Based on the novel “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck.
Synopsis: A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Source: Digital – Pages: 128 – Size: 147 kb – IMDb
| Groundhog Day (1990.04.15 Draft) |
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April 15, 1990 Draft by Danny Rubin.
Synopsis: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 110 – Size: 2.0 MB – IMDb
| Groundhog Day (1992.01.30 Draft) |
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January 30, 1992 Third Revised Draft by Danny Rubin.
Revisions by Harold Ramis.
Synopsis: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 130 – Size: 3.4 MB – IMDb
| Harold and Maude |
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May 29, 1970 Draft by Colin Higgins.
Synopsis: Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Notes: Missing pages 57, 73, 89, & 96.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 112 – Size: 2.3 MB – IMDb
| High Noon |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Carl Foreman.
Based on a story by John M. Cunningham.
Synopsis: A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.
Notes: First four pages are notes on the story. Can be difficult to read at times.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 117 – Size: 2.7 MB – IMDb
| His Girl Friday |
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1940 Draft by Charles Lederer.
Based on the play “The Front Page” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Source: Digital – Pages: 196 – Size: 205 kb – IMDb
| Hustler, The |
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1961 Shooting Script by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen.
Based on the novel by Walter Travis.
Synopsis: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Source: Digital – Pages: 106 – Size: 116 kb – IMDb
| Lady Eve, The |
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October 18, 1940 Draft by Preston Sturges.
Synopsis: Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 157 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
| Lawrence of Arabia |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Robert Bolt.
Synopsis: Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 268 – Size: 11.2 MB – IMDb
| Maltese Falcon, The |
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1941 Shooting Script by John Huston.
From the novel by Dashiell Hammett.
Synopsis: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Source: Digital – Pages: 161 – Size: 180 kb
Source: Scanned – Pages: 153 – Size: 8.0 MB – IMDb
| Memento |
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October 4, 1999 Revised Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan.
Based on a short story by Jonathan Nolan.
Synopsis: A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 140 – Size: 5.3 MB – IMDb
| Messenger, The |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman.
Synopsis: An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
Source: Digital – Pages: 91 – Size: 206 kb – IMDb
| North by Northwest |
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August 12, 1958 Shooting Script by Ernest Lehman.
Synopsis: A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 181 – Size: 3.0 MB – IMDb
| Notorious |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Ben Hecht.
Synopsis: A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Source: Scanned – Pages: 147 – Size: 4.1 MB – IMDb
| Notorious (1946.04.02 Draft) |
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April 2, 1946 Revised Draft by Ben Hecht.
Synopsis: A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Source: Scanned – Pages: 157 – Size: 16.3 MB – IMDb
| Raging Bull |
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Undated, unspecified draft by Paul Schrader.
Synopsis: An emotionally self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 122 – Size: 7.8 MB – IMDb
| Raging Bull (1978.11.01 Draft) |
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(aka Prize Fighter)
November 1, 1978 Revised Draft by Paul Schrader.
Synopsis: An emotionally self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 106 – Size: 3.5 MB – IMDb
| Raging Bull (1979.02.01 Draft) |
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February 1, 1979 Revised Draft by Paul Schrader.
Synopsis: An emotionally self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 116 – Size: 12.3 MB – IMDb
| Rear Window |
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December 1, 1953 Final White Draft by John Michael Hayes.
Based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich.
Synopsis: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Notes: A ScreenTalk conversion.
Source: Digital – Pages: 161 – Size: 300 kb – IMDb
| Rocky |
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January 7, 1976 Final Draft by Sylvester Stallone.
Synopsis: A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Source: Digital – Pages: 119 – Size: 135 kb – IMDb
| Searchers, The |
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1956 Shooting Script by Frank Nugent.
Based on the novel by Alan Le May.
Synopsis: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Source: Digital – Pages: 144 – Size: 180 kb – IMDb
| Shawshank Redemption, The |
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Undated First Draft by Frank Darabont.
From the novella by Stephen King.
Synopsis: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Notes: Scanned by mypdfscripts.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 123 – Size: 4.5 MB – IMDb
| Shawshank Redemption, The (1993.02.22 Draft) |
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February 22, 1993 Final Draft by Frank Darabont.
Based on the novella “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King.
Synopsis: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Source: Digital – Pages: 131 – Size: 286 kb – IMDb
| Singin’ in the Rain |
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May 23, 1951 Revised Draft by Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
Synopsis: A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 98 – Size: 3.7 MB – IMDb
| Sullivan’s Travels |
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May 8, 1941 Draft by Preston Sturges.
Synopsis: A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about Life…which gives him a rude awakening.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 153 – Size: 7.4 MB – IMDb
| Sweet Smell of Success |
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1957 Working Script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman.
From the novelette by Ernest Lehman.
Synopsis: Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister’s romance with a jazz musician.
Source: Digital – Pages: 185 – Size: 216 kb – IMDb
| Taxi Driver |
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1976 Shooting Script by Paul Schrader.
Synopsis: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
Source: Digital – Pages: 116 – Size: 136 kb – IMDb
| Taxi Driver (1975.04.29 Draft) |
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April 29, 1975 Draft by Paul Schrader.
Synopsis: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
Notes: Missing pages 34, 62, and 63.
Source: Scanned – Pages: 122 – Size: 4.8 MB – IMDb
| Wizard of Oz, The |
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1939 Shooting Script by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allen Woolf.
Based on the “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum.
Synopsis: Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
Source: Digital – Pages: 152 – Size: 161 kb – IMDb
