Tag: Elia Kazan

Splendor In The Grass Script

Script by:William Inge (Writer)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1961
IMDb:tt0055471

Plot:A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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A Face in the Crowd Script

Script by:Budd Schulberg (Story), Budd Schulberg (Screenplay)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0050371

Plot:"A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
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East Of Eden Script

Script by:John Steinbeck (Author), Paul Osborn (Author)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048028

Plot: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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Gentleman’s Agreement Script

Script by:Moss Hart (Screenplay), Laura Z. Hobson (Novel)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1947
IMDb:tt0039416

Plot:A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Pinky Script

Script by:Cid Ricketts Sumner (Novel), Philip Dunne (Screenplay), Dudley Nichols (Screenplay)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1949
IMDb:tt0041746

Plot:Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Wild River Script

Script by:Paul Osborn (Screenplay)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0054476

Plot: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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Boomerang! Script

Script by:Richard Murphy (Screenplay), Fulton Oursler (Writer)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1946
IMDb:tt0039208

Plot:In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.
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On the Waterfront (1954) Script

Script by:Budd Schulberg (Screenplay), Budd Schulberg (Story)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1954
IMDb:tt0047296

Plot:Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
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On the Waterfront Script

Script by:Budd Schulberg (Screenplay), Budd Schulberg (Story)
Directed by:Elia Kazan
Year:1954
IMDb:tt0047296

Plot:Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny’s thugs, and later meets the dead man’s sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
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