The New Howell Theater

presents

The Screenplays of

Ronald L. Ecker




(Note to producers: These unproduced screenplays are currently
available for option or purchase. WGA registered.)







Want a love story? See

Chambers of the Heart

The tragic love story of Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen.

Soren's pursuit of Regine starts here.




Want a romantic comedy? See

Counting the Ways

A young man goes to Nashville to try to make it in country music, and feels cheated when his girlfriend, who tags along with him, makes it instead.

The journey to Nashville starts here.




Want a comedy Western? See

Dead Man’s Hand

Past life regression can make your life a bad deal, past and present.

The bad deal starts here.




Want classic horror? See

The Fall of the House of Usher

Murder, madness, and more in a scary, suspenseful adaptation of Poe's horror tale.

The chills start here.




Want comedy/horror? See

Little Red Cells

Ten-year-old Dorian Jarrett sets out to prove vampires exist. He soon wishes they didn't.

His vampire obsession starts here.




Want more comedy/horror? See

Night of the Dragon's Blood

Hitler, surviving the war, plans to conquer the world as a vampire. One man is chosen to stop him.

It all starts in wartime Transylvania.




Want a biblical comedy? See

Of Kings and Concubines

A comedy of errors that reveals why the Bible names two different women, Bathsheba and Bathshua, as the mother of King David's son Solomon.

Things start with a biblical mystery.




Want historical drama? See

The Twenty-One Gun Salute

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson has a conflict of wills with Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta, leading to a U.S. invasion of Veracruz.

The gunboat diplomacy starts here.




Three Comedy Shorts


A Canterbury Tale

Two Cambridge lads, eager to prove they can outwit a miller who's notorious for cheating his customers, take a sackful of grain to his mill for grinding. The miller also has a horny wife and daughter. (Based on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.)

The grinding starts here.




The Devil Wears a Hat

He's Rodolfo Fierro, a feared henchman of Pancho Villa, and you better like his hat.

We meet Fierro and his hat in Chihuahua.




The Fable of Nathan Gooch

A college boy who can't get a date tries using some animal courtship techniques, with surprising results.

Do you know why lizards do push-ups?









Enjoy the movie(s)!



For more of Ron's screenplays, including those
written with Kyle Barnett, click here.



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THE NEW HOWELL THEATER is named after the old Howell that once graced Lemon Street in Palatka, Florida, where Ron Ecker grew up, seeing everything at the Howell from Gone with the Wind to Plan 9 from Outer Space.