Mildred Pierce Script

Script by:Ranald MacDougall (Screenplay), James M. Cain (Novel)
Directed by:Michael Curtiz
Year:1945

Plot:After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.
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Objective, Burma! Script

Script by:Ranald MacDougall (Screenplay), Lester Cole (Screenplay), Alvah Bessie (Story)
Directed by:Raoul Walsh
Year:1945

Plot:A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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Cleopatra Script

Script by:Carlo Mario Franzero (Novel), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Screenplay), Ranald MacDougall (Screenplay), Sidney Buchman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Year:1963

Plot:Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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