Swastikas in New York by Steve Garry | Script Revolution

Swastikas in New York

In 1939, as world war looms and home-grown fascists march in the streets, a naive, orphaned teenager moves into her cousin's rooming house, whose tenants include a mysterious man in the German American Bund.

Type:

  • Feature

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
110pp

Genre:

  • Drama, History, Mystery

Budget:

  • Blockbuster

Age Rating:

  • 13+
Synopsis/Details: 

In the style of the Hitchcock thrillers of the 1940s (eg. Shadow of a Doubt):

Penny Gallagher, a farm girl scarred by a horrible personal tragedy, arrives in Manhattan just as America's Melting Pot and freedom of expression laws go into convulsion. While overheated patriotism and ethnic pride tear at the national fabric, she must choose between following her simple, youthful trust in people versus acting on the ominous threat growing all around her.

If you'd like to view the script/synopsis for this sequel-spawner (Penny becomes a sort of Nancy Drew character by the end), which is only a slightly fictionalized account of this dark, under-reported era in history and even has surprising analogies to our contemporary world, I look forward to sending the PDF(s) to your attention. (Also available as Pilot + Episode One)

Producers: Please contact the author for the full PDFs, or preview at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008AD4QT0

Submitted: February 23, 2017
Last Updated: May 14, 2021

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