Tag: Jo Swerling

Leave Her To Heaven Script

Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Ben Ames Williams (Novel)
Directed by:John M. Stahl
Year:1945
IMDb:tt0037865

Plot:A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
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Blood And Sand Script

Script by:Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Writer), Jo Swerling (Writer)
Directed by:Rouben Mamoulian
Year:1941
IMDb:tt0033405

Plot:Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Crash Dive Script

Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Story)
Directed by:Archie Mayo
Year:1943
IMDb:tt0035763

Plot:A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Platinum Blonde Script

Script by:Harry Chandlee (Story), Douglas W. Churchill (Story), Robert Riskin (Dialogue), Jo Swerling (Adaptation)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1931
IMDb:tt0022268

Plot:Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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The Whole Town’s Talking Script

Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1935
IMDb:tt0027214

Plot:Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Lifeboat Script

Script by:John Steinbeck (Writer), Jo Swerling (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Year:1944
IMDb:tt0037017

Plot:During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
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