American Film Scripts is Complete

The latest, and final release of American Film Scripts is live. The completed collection now contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with Semantically Indexed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. More than half of the scripts in the collection are previously unpublished, and most are accompanied by PDF versions of the original script.

In addition to the 186 new screenplays added in this final release, American Film Scripts has a new look and feel. Head over to http://afso.alexanderstreet.com to take a look at the new interface and software enhancements. We've improved the search engine for better performance, introduced new toolbar navigation for easier browsing, added a collocation table option on the advanced searches, and kept all other functionality the same.

Subscribers will notice that the old platform will remain active until May 1, 2009, but we encourage you to get acquainted with the new interface. After that time, any bookmarks or links into any page of the collection will automatically redirect to the correct pages on the new platform.

Newly added scripts include:

• Journey Into Fear, uncredited direction by Orson Welles (1943); screenplay by Joseph Cotton.
• The Set Up, directed by Robert Wise (1949); won special jury prize at Cannes that year.
• Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1939); Academy Award for Best Actress for Joan Fontaine.
• The Claim, unproduced film treatment written by James Dickey.
• Back to Bataan, directed by Edward Dmytryk; featured John Wayne and Anthony Quinn.
• Edge of Darkness, directed by Lewis Milestone; screenplay by Robert Rossen.
• In This Our Life, directed by John Huston; screenplay by Howard Koch.
• 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon (1933); chosen for National Film Registry.
• The Fountainhead, directed by King Vidor (1949); screenplay by Ayn Rand.
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy, directed by Anatole Litvak (1939) National Board of Review award for Best Film that year.
• The Woman on the Beach, directed by Jean Renoir (1947); featured Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan.
• Now, Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper (1942); National Film Registry selection.
• Far North and Silent Tongue, two screenplays written by Sam Shepard.
• Multiple scripts from films directed by: William Wellman, Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley, Howard Hawks, Vincent Sherman, Raoul Walsh, Curtis Bernhardt, and others.

American Film Scripts is available on the Web through annual subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, including pricing and trial options, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com or your sales representative.