The New Howell Theater
presents
Selected Screenplays of
Ronald L. Ecker
(Note to producers: These unproduced screenplays are currently
available for option or purchase. WGA registered.)
A slave tries to win his freedom as a jockey, with the help of a gifted mare, in the early 19th-century South.
Trouble starts on a plantation in South Carolina.
The young English priest William Tyndale becomes an outlaw, hunted by King Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, and the Holy Roman Empire, when he translates the Bible into English.
The heresy starts here.
Ex-cons try to pull off a perfect crime with the help of an unsuspecting small-town airplane pilot.
The rednecks start getting into trouble here.
A lovely psychic joins an alcoholic city councilor in trying to solve a series of murders by something supernatural in Salem, Massachusetts.
Welcome to Halloween in Salem.
The tragic love story of the troubled young writer Soren Kierkegaard and the beautiful Regine Olsen.
Soren's pursuit of Regine starts here.
President Woodrow Wilson orders an invasion of Veracruz, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution.
The gunboat diplomacy starts here.
Two medieval college boys try to outwit a dishonest miller, who has a horny wife and daughter. (Based on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.)
The grinding starts here.
He's Rodolfo Fierro, a feared henchman of Pancho Villa, and you better like his hat.
We meet Fierro and his hat in Chihuahua.
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?
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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.
