Film Scripts Online

The Film Scripts Online Series contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen.

Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.

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Scripts from Billy Wilder

Academy Award winning screenwriter Billy Wilder wrote the screenplays for some of the most beloved films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, Ocean's Eleven and Sunset Blvd. His screenplays contained in this collection are perfect examples of the farce and satire he is best known for.

Scripts from Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios opened in 1902 in West London and immediately began producing high quality British films. It can be said that the studios' output from the 1940s and 1950s helped define the golden age for British cinema. Scripts from Ealing Studios in this collection include The Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers, and Passport To Pimlico.