Silent Pay Back by Paul Maher | Script Revolution

Silent Pay Back

Revenge is sweet when you work hard.

Type:

  • Short

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
6pp

Genre:

  • Drama

Budget:

  • Shoestring

Age Rating:

  • Everyone
Synopsis/Details: 

A Silent and Black & White short set in 1900s New York. Danny is weak and skinny, without confidence to do anything about it. Bullied by two yobs, his mother drags him to a boxing gym. It's difficult at first, Danny keeps at it, improves both his physique and confidence to win a boxing match. Then he gets his own back on the two yobs.

Submitted: May 27, 2020
Last Updated: May 27, 2020

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The Writer: Paul Maher
I began taking an interest in media related subjects in the 1980s especially photograhy, being self-taught, doing mostly Black & White. Fortunately I was at sea then so had the opportunity for travel to help my photography. During this time I completed the Bureau of Freelance Photographers Photo-Journalism course which taught me how to write correctly and I had a number of publishing successes. In 1988 I lived in Gibraltar for a year as manager/trainer of a gym, then in Greece for eighteen months. I had an extra role in the Niko Mastorakis film Hired to Kill. I returned to England in 1992 and attended Southport College full time to study for a BTEC National Diploma in Photography which... Go to bio

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