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Screenwriting Begins With the Very First Word... Every Film Tells a Story... Write the Unexpected...

HISTORICAL, PERIOD, WESTERN LOGLINES

HAMELIN
Logline: What happened to 130 children in the German summer of 1284? The true 
story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Genre: Historical fantasy/ drama




FAREWELL TO FREEDOM
Logline: A heartbroken woman seeks love in a place called Freedom; unaware that the elements and individuals she meets along the way have the potential to destroy her. Screenplay Genre: Western Romance


LAND OF THE SIX GUN
Logline: Legendary lawman William Tilghman and a posse of gunslingers are enlisted to bring order to Oklahoma territory when outlaw Bill Doolin’s Long Riders become folk heroes. Genre: western

CLEVE MASTERS: DAY OF RECKONING
Logline: In the Old West only three things mattered Family, honor and revenge. Genre: Western



AWASONAAGO - THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY 
E-mail Address: retry79@hotmail.com
Logline: Northern Minnesota, 1883, a Native Chief's effort to save dying lumberjacks from small pox reveals illegal operations and leads his people into a struggle for survival. Genre: Drama


KANSAS CITY
E-mail Address: writerfrank1@hotmail.com
Logline: Jack the Ripper escapes from England and travels to America only to start his bloody murders in Kansas City with Wyatt Earp hunting him down.
Genre: Western/ thriller


JEFFERSON
E-mail Address:
jake_atch@yahoo.com
Logline: The untold story of Jefferson Davis's struggle to maintain slavery during the Civil War.
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, History, Military/War.


LONE STAR LEGACY 
E-mail Address:
cashby99@yahoo.com
Logline: A Texas Ranger with a dark past helps a Mexican village defend itself during the Bandit War of 1915.
Genre: Western



LIGHTHOUSE STORM 
E-mail Address:
kjlateran@hotmail.com
Submit Your Logline: A mysterious recluse, nearly a case of multiple personalities, is redeemed by the love of a vivacious woman.  Compelled by an unrelenting sense of justice, he protects an Old West town unaided by repulsing a vicious gang of outlaws.  Through tragedy, he is forcibly confronted with his own cryptic past.
Screenplay Genre: Western


DIVIDED WATERS
E-mail Address:
anita_sclar@yahoo.com
Submit Your Logline: Set during the Civil War but in the tradition of "The English Patient," the story of a pro-Union widow who falls in love with the Rebel soldier she is harboring, and how they must overcome the political and societal obstacles which separate them.
Winner of the Screenwriters Utopia Showcase Award, Finalist in the  Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition and the  Watkins International Screenplay Competition, Semifinalist in the Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition.
Screenplay Genre: period drama/love story


THE COLONEL'S WIFE
judybednarek@yahoo.com
A rivalry between estranged brothers results in charges of infidelity and murder for the wife of a brutal Confederate colonel.


ELSIE VENNER
rmarcell@juno.com
17 year old Elsie Venner terrorizes classmates and villagers with her hypnotic eyes, cold and calculating ways, and total lack of conscience, characteristics of the rattlesnake, to which she bears a remarkable affinity and a literal power over. She ultimately overcomes her nature through love and death.  


DESERT GUNS
treyhitchcock@yahoo.com
The story is about a young bandit trying to escape his past. But when an old friend comes back for the biggest heist of all time. Trouble starts and a civil war is about to break out. And it will be up to him and his friends to stop it.


THE AMY JOHNSON STORY
pennson35@globaldial.com
This 27 year-old English lady was more popular than movie stars after flying from England to Australia. Tragically killed, the cover-up and smear campaign began.


RUFUS BUCK GANG
normjcali@aol.com
In 1894 a band of four Black Creek and one full black terrorized the settlers of Oklahoma territory known as "13 days of terror."

"FINDING A WAY OUT"

Black Americans unite nationally, for the first time, to fight in World War One in the hope that by their parasitism will win for them their fair share of democracy and justice, but as they becoming the most decorated American regiment in the Great War it is their self-assurance, gained by standing united as Black Americans that gives them reason to continue the struggle.  Contact Writer


"THE RIGGS TRANSLATION"

 A missionary's wife is taken captive during an Indian uprising, and lives with a Dakota family for six weeks.  The resultant change in her world view makes it difficult for her to return to missionary life.

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FORTY-FIVE
E-mail Address: docmjm@thegateway.net
Logline: After killing a former black slave in the Fall of 1868, a fifteen year old boy becomes a fugitive from the law, constantly on the run from Yankee soldiers, State Police and the Texas Rangers. Genre: Western


GEORGIA SKIES
E-mail Address:
te.kendall@yahoo.com
Logline: When a lifelong friendship turns into a love too profound to deny, an interracial couple risks death to pursue their forbidden love in 19th century Savannah Georgia. Genre: Historical Drama


THE DEATH OF A NATION
E-mail Address:
hsantand@gmail.com
Submit Your Logline: NATIVE AMERICANS ARE EXTERMINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON IN ORDER TO FOUND THE USA
Screenplay Genre: EPIC


A WALK ON PART IN THE WAR 
E-mail Address:
sbabiuch@aol.com
Logline: He wanted nothing to do with Viet Nam, yet he found himself in the navy helping refugees from Saigon as the most controversial war in our nation's history finally came to an end. But his journey was far from over.
Genre: Historical fiction



THE CONFESSIONS
E-mail Address:
glibby@westelect.com
Logline: The story takes place in the 19th century France, and is about a famous courtesan whose sad life circumstances make her confess to a complete stranger..The story is a historical drama, and is based on true events. Please let me know if I should submit more information to you regarding this script. Genre: Historical drama


THE GLEANING 
E-mail Address:
eksynapse@charter.net
Logline: A Union surgeon imprisoned at Andersonville uncovers the Confederacy's desperate plot to turn the tide of war... with an Army of Werewolves! To survive against this hellish foe, and save the woman and child he loves, he must forge History's most unlikely Band of Brothers.
Genre: Historical/Action/Adventure/Horror/War/Romance



VENDETTA
E-mail Address:
tate.gardner@gmail.com
Logline: A noble farmboy hunts an outlaw to avenge his father's death. Genre: Western

CALL FOR ISRAEL
E-mail Address:
ramlal_007@hotmail.com
Logline: About the struggle of Israel patriots.
Genre: Historical


ASHOKA THE GREAT
E-mail Address:
sureshkumar.sukheja@gmail.com
Logline: ashoka is an empror in India of 1000 years ago. He is violent, however, after meeting
Buddha he shuns violence/
Genre: historical


DOWN THE BARREL 
E-mail Address:
exiledauthor@hotmail.com
Logline: Hector jumps through the window after the old man he has just shot. He catches up to the wounded man and kicks him in the crotch from behind. "Why do'nt you just tell me where the gold, and then you can go to hell, and do the Devil's wife!"
Genre: Western/Shoot'em Up


MISS ABBY
E-mail Address:
anita_sclar@yahoo.com
Submit Your Logline: . A wealthy, free-spirited white woman in 1950 Florida must battle the racial prejudices of a small southern town when she falls in love with a poverty-stricken African-American farmer.
Screenplay Genre: period drama/love story Finalist in the Cyclone Productions Screenplay Competition and a Semifinalist in the Writers' Network Screenplay Competition and the Lone Star Screenplay Competition



THE VIKING PRINCE
johnmlenz@aol.com
The story centers on King Harald first telling his son Gunter about when he went "A Viking" to seek his destiny and prove his manhood.


SIX SHOOTER
joseph_schedule@yahoo.com
Shortly after a hotshot marshal moves to El Paso in the spring of 1881, a posse of armed Mexicans comes to town looking for two vaqueros who had stolen 30 cattle. When some locals attempt to take justice into their own hands, the marshal is suddenly drawn into a gun battle where four people end up dead in five seconds. Soon a blood feud is born between the marshal and the relatives of the dead men; exposing the corruption of those running the city and their connection to the posse of Mexicans, which jeopardizes the marshal's life as he tries to save the city


WHOM THE BELL IS TOLLING
chrispavey@hotmail.com
A drunk fakes his own death in an unthinkable quest for redemption that will ensure his family's safety and prosperity. But will it have such dire consequences for him, and for his family, that he cannot bare to go through with it?

WESTERN COWBOY: RISE OF THE BLACK  RAIDERS 
evans.elizabeth@comcast.net
A gun-slinging story about a resourceful young cowboy, an outlaw and his posse, who sets out on a perilous quest to retrieve a mysterious rifle, which is the only item that can stop a band of ghoulish outlaws.


WHERE THE DEVIL SAYS GOODNIGHT
pennson35@globaldial.com
This 20 year-old down-to-earth European aristocrat jumps from a cattle-wagon into freezing Siberian snow. For her, World War II slips into top gear.


THE DEATH DANCE OF JOQUIN MURIETA

slippaboy@yahoo.com
The true story of the California "Robin Hood" who terrorized the state before being hunted down by a state appointed posse.


AUTUMN LEAVES
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In the Old West, a courageous young woman fights back, after being terrorized by a ruthless Land Baron.


 


CHILD OF THE SUN
E-mail Address: viamlegend@hotmail.com
Logline: Thousands of years before our time, a child savior must face the pressures of his family, his friends, his people, his oppressors, and God himself.
Genre: Action/Drama/Historical


THE LAST KNIGHT
E-mail Address:
eyekilller@yahoo.com
Logline: Its story of the Irish knight,in this story we see that Irises and Scots are deadly enemy of each other,and in a battle hero of story whose family killeb by Scots meets heroin of this story  who is the Scottish girl,he falls in love with her but there are many other interesting situations occur that in end of story,he kills her.Its a romantic as well as an action story.  Genre: Romantic/Hoistoric/Action


THE GUARDIAN OF THE GATE 
E-mail Address:
richard.c.blackburn@gmail.com
Logline: When Jenny visits Stonehenge for the midsummer solstice, a freak combination of time, place and ancient Druid magic thrust her into the squalor and brutality of the year 1347. Can she survive long enough to return to her own century? Genre: historical fantasy


DAVID'S WINDOW
E-mail Address:
nahar34@hotmail.com
Logline: The King David story according to the latest research. Genre: History/Drama


THE LEGEND OF PENDYNE 
E-mail Address:
barrettbbear@sbcglobal.net
Logline: Irish tradition clashes against British law in the 17th century as the British monarchy took over the British Isles. The old Irish knight, Master Albert, had seen his share of war. Then Pendyne, the King's battle horse, disappeared. Albert knows the horse must be returned at all costs, even his own life. "The Legend of Pendyne" is a haunting tale of change and choice. Genre: historical fiction/adventure


WARRIOR WOMAN 
E-mail Address:
m@queenboudica.com
Logline: At the 1755 Battle of Taliwa, Nancy Ward picks up her husband's musket, after he has been shot and killed and leads the Cherokee into victory over the Creek Indians. For her courage, she is made Ghighuaa, of the Cherokee. Genre: Historical



NANTAHALA 
E-mail Address:
JSHwriter1961@yahoo.com
Logline:  A Confederate Cavalry Officer strong sense of duty, honor, and commitment to his cause is used against him by others as a front for  power, murder and greed in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Genre: Drama/Period Piece

BLUE CAVE MOUNTAIN 
E-mail Address:
laura945@earthlink.net
Logline: Liz leads her husband and her ex-lover in a search for a long-lost diamond mine, the legacy of a Chinese warlord.  There are villains ahead of them, the warlord on their tail.   And Liz is the most dangerous one of all.
Genre: drama/western


LITTEN'S PASSION 
E-mail Address:
dking@texarkanalaw.com
Logline:  After facing Hitler down in the courtroom, a young attorney in pre-WWII Nazi Germany begins a courageous fight for his law practice, his freedom, his country, and soon his very life. LITTEN'S PASSION is a true historical drama in the tradition of SCHINDLER'S LIST, about an ordinary man who becomes extraordinary by standing his ground before an army of evil and risks all to save the soul of a nation.
Genre: True  Historical Drama


THE BONUS ARMY
E-mail Address:
jpdyer@sbcglobal.net
Logline: During the Great Depression, a World War I vet and thousands of his fellow vets journey to the nation's capitol looking for some help from their government, only to have their hopes crushed in a way that shocks the conscience of America.
Genre: Drama/Period Piece


NO GREATER LOVE
E-mail Address:
biblej1513@yahoo.com
Logline: HIGH NOON, without a remake, to a higher level.
Genre: Western


THE FIDDLER
E-mail Address:
laila_s_a@hotmail.com
Submit Your Logline: A WW  I soldier must fight against all odds to be with the woman he loves.
Screenplay Genre: Drama/Historical


EMINENCE HILL 
E-mail Address:
info@galleryfilms.net
Submit Your Logline: In the western town of Eminence Hill the code is blood for blood, but violence breeds only more violence.
Screenplay Genre: Western Drama


PLAINS, TWAINS, AND HORSIES
scripts@earthlink.net
A broad comedy in which a Japanese-Irish-Apache warrior in the Old West seeks revenge for the murder of his parents by a land baron. The hero must come to terms with his mixed racial heritage as well as crazed postal employees, a horny transvestite gunfighter and a Chinese wise man with chopsticks up his nose.


 

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