Big thanks to the Mysterious “M” for the heads up on a ton (figuratively speaking) of scripts from the Golden Age of Radio. Head over to the Old Time Radio page and check out scripts and transcripts from classics such as, Superman vs. Kryptonite, Stories of Suspense, Frankenstein and Gunsmoke.

You must do a deep dive on these excellent OTR (Old Time Radio) sites like Generic Radio, Quietly Yours, Those Were The Days and Kingrr’s Home Page. A recent two day power outage left the fat kid trying to wire all the D-Cell batteries in the house together to power the television. Some MP3’s of OTR stories like Superman and The Green Hornet and Suspense were a life saver as the family gathered in the living room by the light of candles and listened to these classics. - Don

Congratulations to PC. Her short End of the Tour was filmed by Scar Tissue Films.

Read End of the Tour by P.C. - Short - A young man returns from his tour of duty only to find out that everything has changed. 1 page - pdf, format.

Watch the film.

Shout out to PC on the Discussion Board. - Don

Edit: Just found out that this short film has been entered into Virgin Media Shorts contest. If you have a moment, why don’t you sign in and comment and rate the film. - Don

On the Unproduced Scripts page we have 45 new or majorly revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. There is Gem by Michael is a throughly research piece about an old-time burlesque stripper who wants to pass her knowledge on to a new generation. If you’ve seen Gypsy, this may be of interest to you. There is also Anthony’s Titians of Heaven (formerly Angels of Ardony) - an Action/Fantasy piece that takes place in the dark ages of the world, where an angel and his three descendants fight to protect the human race from underworld demons bent on obliterating the planet. And Kira has a short Alice in Modern Wonderland where technology blurs reality. If none of these are your bag, there are another 42 scripts to choose from.

I have finally cleared the backlog of submitted scripts and have re-opened the Submit Your Script page.

On the Treatments page we have Radek’s treatment of a sequel to I Am Legend.

Unproduced Script of the Day has been updated. - Don

An unfit couple must attend class on improving their child rearing skills, a husband and wife regret getting married, a family vacation ruined by mom’s ex-boyfriend, a girl teams up with her secret agent father to rescue her mother, and a mysterious CIA film reveals a plot to detonate a bomb at the Lake Placid winter Olympics.

Remember, as ScriptGirl sez, “you can’t sell it, if you don’t write it”. - Don

Over on the Movie Scripts page we have, in Donovan’s words… …a strange little script by Lem “Kafka/The Limey” Dobbs called HIDER IN THE HOUSE. The title tells you what it’s about, but it’s interesting in that the movie is from the psychotic Hider’s point of view. A quirky, ambiguous sort of script while still being an adequate thriller. It was made into a film with howlin’ mad Gary Busey in the title role. It’s hard to find the film, but the script is good anyway. Thanks to Daily Script for the heads up. - Don

Congrats to Robert!

His short comedy script, The Take Home Final, has been filmed. Even at Princeton University there are slackers, and Gary Klondike is one of the best. (31 pages in pdf format)

Discuss this script or shout out to Robert on the Discussion Board

Over on the Movie Scripts page we have Dark Games by Eric Dickson.

A 13 year old troublemaker falls witness to an attempted rape after cutting through the woods behind his house. He is later taken in by a retired homicide detective still obsessed with finding the one killer he never caught. 95 pages

Eric writes, My horror script Dark Games was filmed last October, 2007 as a 35mm feature and is currently in post-production. Mandalay Independent Pictures and Bryan Spears are looking at it for cable and DVD distribution. They’re requesting a few changes, but will be picking it up. The cast includes Danny Trejo, Martin Kove, Jeff Conaway, Brian Thompson, Boo Boo Stewart and introducing Heather Tocquigny, who will be appearing in the AfterDark Films Horrorfest original film Perkins 14 (2009). [This] script… is an early draft and is a bit raw, but I’ll be sending you a new draft soon.

Congratulations, Eric. Thanks for sharing the early draft. Shout outs and such can be made on the Discussion Board

With the Darabont draft of Indy 4 out on the ‘net, needless to say, it begs to be compared to the final film. Mystery Man on Film has his take on the Darabont draft with 50 Strengths of Darabont’s Draft. Still in the mood to beat up on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Check out MMoF’s 50 Flaws of Indy IV. - Don

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page we have thirty new and revised scripts up for your reading pleasure.

We have a variety up this week. There is Katrina’s supernatural thriller Solace about a group of teens spirited away in the middle of the night to a distopian youth behavior modification facility. I was initally going to give this a pass, but I got curious and was pleasantly surprised.

There is also Jared’s romantic piece, Steal Away where a young man and young woman meet in a bookstore and over the course of the night, the two strangers discover they may have more in common than they thought. Again, another almost pass, but it does start in a bookstore on a rainy Saturday evening.

Just a note, I have a backlog of unproduced scripts reaching back to late April. Some of you may notice that a script submitted last week is up, but a script submitted a month ago hasn’t been posted, yet. I have not been updating chronologically. I skip around. I hope within the next week to get the entire backlog up and out. Thanks for your patience. - Don