Jo Swerling – Movie Catcher Script Finder https://moviecatcher.net Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:55:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.13 98414801 Leave Her To Heaven Script https://moviecatcher.net/movie/leave-her-to-heaven-script/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:00:00 +0000 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/leave-her-to-heaven-script/
Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Ben Ames Williams (Novel)
Directed by:John M. Stahl
Year:1945

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 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/blood-and-sand-script/ Fri, 28 Oct 2016 05:00:00 +0000 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/blood-and-sand-script/
Script by:Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Writer), Jo Swerling (Writer)
Directed by:Rouben Mamoulian
Year:1941

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 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/crash-dive-script/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/crash-dive-script/
Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Story)
Directed by:Archie Mayo
Year:1943

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 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/platinum-blonde-script/ Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:00:00 +0000 http://moviecatcher.net/movie/platinum-blonde-script/
Script by:Harry Chandlee (Story), Douglas W. Churchill (Story), Robert Riskin (Dialogue), Jo Swerling (Adaptation)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1931

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 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/the-whole-towns-talking-script/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:00:00 +0000 http://moviecatcher.net/movie/the-whole-towns-talking-script/
Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1935

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 https://moviecatcher.net/movie/lifeboat-script/ Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://moviecatcher.net/movie/lifeboat-script/
Script by:John Steinbeck (Writer), Jo Swerling (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Year:1944

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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