[Movie Script]Manchurian Candidate, The

                      THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE



By

Dean Georgaris

Based on the novel by Richard Condon

and the screenplay by George Axelrod
Current revisions by

Daniel Pyne, August 18, 2003



                                                    IN BLACK:



1   Restless bodies.   Scuffing of feet.   Somebody coughs.       1
                         MARCO'S VOICE



Approximately sixty four hundred hours

before Desert Storm, we were on a routine

recon inside Iraqi-controlled terrain,

assessing troop strength for what Saddam

Hussein promised to be the mother of all

wars ... but turned out to be just a

little warm up for the whomping he got a

few years later.
    FADE IN:


2   EXT. DESERT - NIGHT                                           2



PROWLING ACROSS undulating land dotted with BURNING OIL

WELLS that give the vague impression of, well, hell. The

inky sky is awash with stars.
    ON THE CREST OF A DUNE


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