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learn more at alexanderstreet.com S ONLINE FILM SCRIPTS ERIES From Here to Eternity Black Hawk Down The African Queen Fury Ben Hur Body Heat Mr. Deeds Goes to Town King Kong American Gigolo Double Indemnity Predator Suspicion Leaving Las Vegas His Girl Friday Trading Places Swing Time The Maltese Falcon Sunset Boulevard 2001: A Space Odyssey The Sting The Shining Urban Cowboy Platoon Billy Liar Unforgiven Broadcast News The Big Chill Comfort and Joy Blade Runner Pan’s Labyrinth Night of the Hunter The Jazz Singer State and Main Witness The Spanish Prisoner Tender Mercies Hotel Rwanda In the Line of Fire Rebel Without a Cause The Lavender Hill Mob Span’glish The Last Detail The Hustler Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Gods and Monsters Taxi Driver Mean Streets The Last Temptation of Christ Ararat Out of the Past Nashville The Magnificent Ambersons Film Scripts Online Series We watch, discuss, and analyze movies—but rarely do we read the scripts. While some well-known film scripts have appeared in print, most have never been published in any format. The scholar’s struggle to locate original scripts involves complicated permissions and negotiations, and holders of scripts are often reluctant to lend rare and unique documents. The Film Scripts Online Series makes Content available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted The Film Scripts Online Series was recently screenplays. Now film scholars can expanded with Volume II to include 500 compare the writer’s vision with the new screenplays, along with monographs producer’s and director’s interpretations including the Film Classics series from from page to screen. the British Film Institute. While American Film Scripts: Volume I contains hundreds Most scripts in the series have never of titles from classic American cinema, been published before and are available Film Scripts Online: Volume II focuses nowhere else. Alexander Street developed more on contemporary and international Cross of Iron, Michael Cimino’s The Deer the collection through arrangements with films. The volumes together are the most Hunter, David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other comprehensive collection of film scripts Carol Reed’s The Third Man, David Lean’s major film studios; rights holders such as available to libraries anywhere in the world. Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Hobson’s Choice, Alexander Mackendrick’s Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; American Film Scripts: Volume I The Ladykillers, Nicholas Roeg’s The Man and the writers themselves, including Paul A few of the titles in Volume I include: The Who Fell to Earth, Robert Hamer’s Kind Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Lady from Shanghai, The Wizard of Oz, Hearts and Coronets, Mike Figgis’s Leaving Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others. 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