Tag: Dalton Trumbo

Executive Action Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay)
Directed by:David Miller
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070046

Plot:Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
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Johnny Got His Gun Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Scenario Writer)
Directed by:Dalton Trumbo
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067277

Plot:Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories and unable to distinguish whether he is awake or dreaming. He remains frustrated by his situation, until one day when Joe discovers a unique way to communicate with his caregivers.
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Roman Holiday Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Novel), Ian McLellan Hunter (Screenplay), John Dighton (Screenplay)
Directed by:William Wyler
Year:1953
IMDb:tt0046250

Plot:Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Ted W. Lawson (Story)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1944
IMDb:tt0037366

Plot:In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Five Came Back Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Nathanael West (Screenplay), Richard Carroll (Story), Jerome Cady (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Farrow
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0031314

Plot:Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
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The Fixer Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Bernard Malamud (Novel)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0062977

Plot:Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Hawaii Script

Script by:James Michener (Novel), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Daniel Taradash (Screenplay)
Directed by:George Roy Hill
Year:1966
IMDb:tt0060491

Plot:Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
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Spartacus Script

Script by:Howard Fast (Novel), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay)
Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0054331

Plot:The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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