Here is information about completed screenplays, “Looking for Morning,” “Vale of Shadows,” “Backlash,” “Age of the Kingdom” and “Flyboy” plus a short film “Kapi’olani.”

Flyboy

Synopsis:

Just prior to D-Day, Robert Brandenburg pilots a P-51 Mustang fighter on daily missions across France to Germany.  His wing man/friend/rival is Vinnie Patrizzo.  They are as different as their hometowns in New York and Kansas.

A band of partisans explodes an ammunition dump at a German command post (a French chateau).  A beautiful 19-year-old girl, Claire Bouchet, distracts the sentry as the underground warriors go over the wall.  Later she covers their exit with a barrage from the tommy gun she carries under her coat.

Returning from a mission, Robert’s squadron is surprised by the first of Hitler’s jet fighters.  Robert and Patrizzo are both shot down over Northern France.  Robert ejects and parachutes onto a farm belonging to Paul Bouchet, who, with his daughter, Claire, are active in the sabotage work of the underground.  The Bouchets hide Robert and, eventually Patrizzo and another pilot, too, since their farm is a stop on the route out of occupied France for refugees.  Robert is amazed by the beautiful but tough Claire.  Paul prepares false papers for the pilots and tells them they will be flying to England tomorrow night.

Karl Linzer is a German Major who suspects the Bouchets of underground activity.

At night, Claire and Robert go for a walk in a field.  She tells him how the Germans killed her mother and others randomly after an act of sabotage in the village.  She rages, cries and resolves to see the “Bosches” defeated.

Paul answers a knock at the door.  It is Linzer.  He invites Claire to be his escort at a ceremony tomorrow night at the army headquarters, using veiled threats to get her to say yes.

Later, Robert asks Claire about Linzer.  She replies that Linzer is not a danger to her, but Robert is, because he might actually have a chance with her.  Robert and Claire both realize they are falling in love.

During Linzer’s ceremony, a distant explosion announces the destruction of a bridge important to German supply lines, the work of Paul and the partisans.

Claire discovers the third pilot is a German spy passing information about the underground to Linzer.  Paul tricks him into speaking German, then executes him.

They immediately head for the rendezvous expecting the Germans to soon pursue them.  Linzer and an SS soldier catch them and force Paul to stop his car.  Paul and Claire insist they are going to visit her aunt.  When Linzer orders the storm trooper to search the car, Paul opens fire and runs over the storm trooper.  As the car spins around, Claire sprays the Mercedes with her tommy gun and Paul speeds away.

At the rendezvous, while they wait Robert and Claire talk about the future, the end of the war.

When the plane comes, they hastily say goodbye.  Robert and Patrizzo hurry toward the plane, but shots ring out from the woods and Patrizzo falls, dying in Robert’s arms.  Claire and Paul return fire.  The plane takes off again but gunfire brings it down in a fireball.  Paul is killed.  Claire runs to him as Linzer and a score of soldiers emerge to take her captive.  Robert escapes into the trees.

Claire is tortured by the Gestapo, but reveals nothing.  Other partisans are executed.

Robert, traveling at night and aided by nuns at a convent, returns to the Bouchet farm, where he hides in the barn.  The Germans have ransacked the place and won’t be back. He finds food and an old pistol.  Dressed as a peasant, he bicycles into the village, finds where he plots to rescue of Claire. However, the Germans capture him as well and he must improvise to free himself and Claire.

If you want to participate in this project, contact Gary Ivey.