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SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS
The Bible, the book of Revelations. As a teenager I went to Sunday school and once a Year the pastor gave a sermon on revelations, usually on New Year's eve before the Rose Parade. He used a lot of charts which I studied carefully and I wondered if I could translate this into a movie. My title became Seven Golden Candlesticks, based on the seven churches of the first century. Many of the prophecies I found confusing such as the bear of the North, the lion and her colony and the Eagle; these things and not even come about yet, they would be centuries away. So the idea became simple, quite like turning it into A B-movie script. My hero would be a rebel who got left behind after the rapture and is now fighting evil. The villain would be a general who commands all of forces in the UN. He would be big brother or the antichrist, the dictator of the world government. The opening scene is a beach party with the UN soldiers having a good time. The rebels sneak up on them and after some speechifying, massacre them. From our point it becomes a running battle between the good guy and the bad guy until we get to the final battle.
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TOLTEC GOLD
An action filled lusty comedy adventure set in the American southwest in 1905. Two soldiers and their command were on the border with Mexico rebels. They decide it is time to get out of the Army. It is time to seek their fortune in the gold fields. They remember a story about a lost canyon of gold and used to be called Toltec country. They strike it rich but find it a problem just staying alive to spend it. Everybody in the country side wants in on the gold. They get some help just to deal with the issue. Rose and June are local trollops. Top Hat, a local gunman who wears a top hat. Cloud, and old timer who knows gold mining. Sunset, a young gunfighter. Sundancce, a local would be famous gunfighter. Scott, a gentleman and gambler. Our heroes are Bud and Jack. There are a few fidst fights and nine gunfights. Lots of fun, romande and a few bit parts thrown in, plus a fight with a local tribe.
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THE BADGE PACKERS
1905 - The area known as Arizona is looking toward statehood. The powers that be form the Arizona Rangers. The leads are based on real people. the rest is pure Hollywood shoot 'em up.
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HARRY KANE AND HIS STUNT TRAINEES
Back in 1981 I was recording video for a stunt training workshop run by an almost retired stunt man which happened to be the only way anyone could learn a movie trade in good old Hollywood.
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FRONTIER MARSHALS
Or the last great wild west adventure of Wyatt Barry Sharp Earp, John (Doc) Holiay and William Barclay (Bat) Masterson as it might have been told by Ned Bunting. Based on fact.
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THE HEAL GROUP
Divorced middle age woman joins a singles group.
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STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT
A guy in West Hollywood stretches limousines. A comedy for real.
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MOTHER
Girl comes to the big city, gets mixed up with big crime and murder, was a romance with Mr. Big's grandson. It's the music business in this horror story. She gets in the family way with Satan's child.
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BULLHORN RUSH SPEAKEASY
The Golden Goose. He is hiding a hood from the cops.
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METRO WAR
A couple of cops, detectives are on the beat.
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THE APPRENTICES
In 1981 a retired stunt man turned movie producer opened a stunt workshop. the story follows the students learning the craft. While most of the stories are real, some parts are made up to bring the story lines together. A video camera was used to create three documentaries and one screenplay.
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EVENTS IN A SMALL AMERICAN TOWN
A meteor lands in a farm land and something good comes from it
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THE PROMOTERS
Low budget producers stage a beauty contest. Comedy.
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THE SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS
A professor is asked to find the Garden of Eden
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GARGOYLES AT BEAR LAKE
I'm sitting with a man
who wants to be a movie producer about forty years ago. He says I want you to write a screenplay based
on the Shining.
A week later I'm saying to him the movie is coming out in a couple of months.
He says to me I want you
to write a screenplay on the Shining.
While I was paid he did
not produce it. Update to 2019. I dust it
off and get ready to rewrite it on the computer. Seven month later it is ready. It has a hotel
and a small town in the mountains. It
has a really bad demon who controls some really hungry gargoyles. It has a town full of metaphysical minded
people. And it is a horror script.
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THE COMPANY OF MISFFITS
Fiction about lawmen and outlaws in 1915 Arizona
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CATFISH
Story of lawman Catfish O'Hara
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BAD AND DEADLY HARRY TRACY
Story of the last member of the Wild Bunch
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