[Movie Script]Snow Falling On Cedars

                         SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS


Ronald Bass

First Draft Screenplay

March 3, 1997
     EXT. THE SUSAN MARIE, SHIP CHANNEL BANK - NIGHT



Fog.  Penetrated only by sound.  The LAPPING of sea at a drifting

hull.  Tendrils of mist part, revealing...
...a face.  Strong and blond and handsome.
     SUPERIMPOSE:  SEPTEMBER 15, 1954



LONG ANGLE...from below, we watch CARL HEINE, high on the cross

spar of his mast.  He has pulled a SHUTTLE of TWINE from his rubber

overalls, and is LASHING a LANTERN in the cloud of mist, as MAIN

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