"Michael B. Druxman may have escaped Hollywood after forty-five years, but he also survived and thrived there all those years...hardly a feat for the faint-hearted. His entertaining and amusing memoir tells us how he did it. With tenacity and talent, he went from PR agent to screenwriter to director and, along the way, rubbed shoulders with a fascinating array of characters, con-men, and artists. From the stars to the strugglers, from the saints to the scammers, from those who soared to those who took a swan dive, they're all here. We meet the great, the near-great, the not-so great who make...

GHOUL CITY is an original screenplay by Michael B. Druxman. The first thing that Greg Hemmings did when he arrived in the quiet, Midwestern manufacturing town of Silo City was to shoot down the neighborhood grocer and his wife. He followed that by blowing away a farmer and his son, a deputy sheriff, plus several other of the townsfolk. When Sheriff Abel McIntire finally captured Greg and threw him into jail, the former high school science teacher from Canada told him that Silo City was a town of flesh-eating ghouls and that it was his intention to wipe out every one of them. Naturally, the...

SARAH GOLDEN HAIR is an original screenplay by Michael B. Druxman. During the infamous Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 1864 in which a group of Colorado Militia slaughtered over 100 peaceful Cheyenne men, women and children, scout Robert Bent rescues Sarah Lindstrom and her child from the devastated Indian camp and takes her to safety. Sarah had been adopted by the Cheyenne when she was nine, after white renegades killed her mother and brother, and now she is happily married to Brave Wolf, a Cheyenne warrior chief. Bent escorts Sarah and her child to the Wyoming Territory where her...

UNCLE LOUIE is an original screenplay by Michael B. Druxman. If Damon Runyon had written THE KARATE KID, it might've turned out like this, because Uncle Louie is an aging fugitive from GUYS AND DOLLS. When he comes to Los Angeles to live with the nephew that he hasn't seen in thirty years, he meets Andy, his grand nephew. Andy is a likable high school student who loves playing his guitar, but also has some problems. Inadvertently, the youth has incurred the wrath of a local drug dealer. And, even though he has his own troubles with an East Coast Mafia chieftain plus the F.B.I., Louie takes it...

An Original Screenplay by Michael B. Druxman, inspired by a sensational Hollywood murder. The Seattle police claim that Robby Abbott, 20, has murdered his mother, a former internationally-known high fashion model. When first assigned to defend the young man, attorney Rebecca Gleason believes her client to be guilty, as does her former husband, Harry Gleason, a private investigator of dubious reputation. Yet, as they delve deeper into the case, both Harry and Rebecca come to realize that they have more than a simple murder on their hands. A subsequent homicide and the appearance of the F.B.I....

In 1888, the elusive serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized the Whitechapel District of London. Scotland Yard was baffled. But, that same year, Jack met his match when he crossed paths with the dreadfully evil ...really awful...Count Dracula. On July 22, 1934, notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot "dead" by the FBI in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. But, on September 17, 1941, in Miami Beach, Florida, John Dillinger met with former "King of Chicago," mobster Al Capone, to plan the biggest heist of his career. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana...

To the average moviegoer, the name of Basil Rathbone conjures up an image of fiction's most famous detective - Sherlock Holmes. Certainly, of all the actors who have played the Baker Street sleuth, his interpretation was definitive. Yet, for cinema aficionados, the actor was much more than the personification of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. He began his film career in 1921 in Innocent, which was one of several silent films in which he appeared. He was also Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield, Richard III in Tower of London, Louis XI in If I Were King, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Captain...

An original screenplay by Michael B. Druxman, CHEYENNE WARRIOR was produced by Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons Pictures and released in 1994. Mark Griffiths directed the film, which starred Kelly Preston, Dan Haggerty, Bo Hopkins and Pato Hoffmann. CHEYENNE WARRIOR was a critical and financial success, and through home video and cable television, achieved a worldwide fan following that persists to the present day. CHEYENNE WARRIOR II and HAWK are Druxman's two diverse versions of a long awaited sequel to that original film, each following "Soars Life a Hawk," the character played by Pato...

BARRY & THE BIMBO is an original romantic/action/comedy screenplay by Michael B. Druxman. Barry is a young, somewhat naive, aspiring screenwriter, who has got the "hots" for Dawn. She's the cute blonde who lives upstairs and who runs around with a nasty guy involved in the local rackets. When the mob "hits" Dawn's fella, she and Barry become the cops' chief suspects. Then, when they're kidnapped out of a police car by some hoods and both officers are killed, the unlikely couple find themselves on the run...with the law, the mob and an important politician on their tail. It seems that...

This Original Screenplay by Michael B. Druxman is a memory piece, a Jewish American saga featuring a cast of rich, colorful characters and taking place in a small resort town in central Washington State during the late 1940s/early 1950s. The narrator recalls his childhood when his family spent their summers in the town of Mineral Lake which, despite opposition from many anti-Semitic residents, his father hoped to develop into a Palm Springs of the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by a true story.