Tag: Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked This Way Comes Script

Script by:Ray Bradbury (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Novel)
Directed by:Jack Clayton
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086336

Plot:In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
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Moby Dick Script

Script by:Herman Melville (Author), Ray Bradbury (Screenplay), John Huston (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0049513

Plot:In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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It Came From Outer Space Script

Script by:Harry Essex (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Story)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1953
IMDb:tt0045920

Plot:Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms Script

Script by:Lou Morheim (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Story), Fred Freiberger (Screenplay)
Directed by:Eugène Lourié
Year:1953
IMDb:tt0045546

Plot:An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Script

Script by:François Truffaut (Screenplay), Jean-Louis Richard (Screenplay), Ray Bradbury (Novel)
Directed by:François Truffaut
Year:1966
IMDb:tt0060390

Plot:In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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The Illustrated Man Script

Script by:Ray Bradbury (Novel), Howard B. Kreitsek (Writer)
Directed by:Jack Smight
Year:1969
IMDb:tt0064473

Plot:A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
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Fahrenheit 451 Script

Script by:Ray Bradbury (Novel), Amir Naderi (Screenplay), Ramin Bahrani (Adaptation), Derek Anderson (Script Consultant), Bahareh Azimi (Script Consultant)
Directed by:Ramin Bahrani
Year:2018
IMDb:tt0360556

Plot:In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit Script

Script by:Ray Bradbury (Theatre Play), Ray Bradbury (Story)
Directed by:Stuart Gordon
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0129634

Plot:Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.
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