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OATH: The Screenplay
OATH: The Screenplay
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The jailing of Reats creates havoc in his household. His father-in-law, very conservative
never took to Reats and is livid David has put the family at risk. Arguments ensue, David goes astray, and is found out. His graduation is at risk and has lost his internship.

His father-in-law has friends in high places. They all played football on a Rose Bowl team. David has to be an enlisted corpsman which pleases the head of the medical department at MCRD. The officers hate Reats, and the enlisted men are suspicious, but look up to him for guidance.

An enlisted man takes around a petition to start an enlisted man's union. Reats is blamed, put on report, and has to endure a court martial. Representing himself many of the factors relating to loss of internship come to bear. A Surprise witness shocks and clarifies many aspects of David Reats' marriage and subsequent demotion. A shocker at the end shakes the jury as well as the on-lookers.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 3, 2013
ISBN9781301815289
OATH: The Screenplay
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Marshall Stearn

My non-fiction books represent my interests in helping the population at large. I am a psychotherapist & Life Coach and have tried to approach my interests to help the human condition, as illustrated in: Drinking & Driving, Self Hypnosis, Portraits of Passion, 90 Important Things to Survive the Future. Being a SAG-AFTRA actor I wrote Screenwriting Made Easy, and subsequent screenplays as books: Miltee, Ed Boudreau, Press Bet, Brief Encounter, Love Is A Many Splendid Thing. These are all fictional and character driven letting my creative imagination take hold. In Portraits of Passion I interviewed 32 men and women about creativity & passion for work. Some of them were known participants: Charles M Schulz(snoopy), Robert Mondavi, Melvin Belli, Steve Allen, Norman Cousins,Jerry Jampolsky, Linus Pauling, John Wooden, Alice Faye, and many others. Their work was their life!

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    OATH - Marshall Stearn

    The Oath

    A Screenplay by

    Marshall B. Stearn

    Copyright © 2013 Marshall B. Stearn

    Park West Publishing Co.

    Sonoma, California

    p.westpub@gmail.com

    Writers Guild of America

    Registration No.1149777

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    The purpose of this book is to educate. The author and Park West Publishers shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.

    INTRODUCTION

    David Reats is a perennial student. In his early years at the University of California at Berkeley he was an activist. There wasn’t a cause he did not like. He is loyal to his friends and will go the extra mile for a cause he believes in. Of course this has caused him some grief from the Medical school he is about to graduate from and his wife and father-in-law.. His wife always supports him; however his fathering-in –law comes from a different generation and political orientation.

    Sometimes David leaps before he thinks, but to the young medical students he is admired. Especially his friend Tom Stoup a tall gangly man with a beard, never without his pipe. They shared a great deal of time together talking, politics, philosophy and women. David has always had an eye for a pretty in shape woman

    With a thumb nail sketch of the main protagonist, you will have a better understanding what he does, and sometimes what he doesn’t do. He is brave, or shortsighted, relentless in his beliefs even at the expense of his own comfort zone. Enjoy the Oath it won’t disappoint you.

    FADE IN:

    EXT. STREET EARLY-MORNING

    The street is deserted, the sun has not risen it is early morning. A car drives by with the driver throwing out the morning paper. Ether side of the hilly San Francisco Street is composed of single-family dwellings and duplexes. A woman's scream is heard from a second story duplex.

    INT. BEDROOM MORNING.

    A woman is thrashing around in her bed she is moving from side to side and screaming.

    WOMAN

    No, please! No, don't! Please, don't!

    The man lying next to her is awakened.

    MAN

    Honey, honey, wake up, it's me DAVID, I'm here.

    He reaches over, and holds her while her hands are still flailing away. She stops and calms down. He holds her, she eventually falls back to sleep. David looks at her and covers her with the blanket.

    INT. BEDROOM SAME-MORNING

    Lying in bed is the man and woman asleep. The alarm goes off, the woman scrambles to shut it off, and then lies back, and snuggles next to the man who has turned over. She starts to caress his back; he starts to move around a bit, then turns over, and kisses the woman gently on the face. She jostles him, and he starts to wake up. The man is David Reats, fiftyish swarthy, stockily built with sat and pepper hair. The woman is his wife Renee 30, glamoursly attractive and slender.

    RENEE

    I had one of those dreams last night didn't I?

    DAVID

    (Rubbing his eyes)

    Uh.

    RENEE

    I wish they'd stop, damn it.

    DAVID

    I told you, Fred Gold said he'd hypnotize you.

    RENEE

    I told you no, not now.

    DAVID

    When then.

    RENEE

    I don't know?

    DAVID

    Look, if we could just identify whose chasing you, it would give us some answers.

    RENEE

    I don't want to go into it now...Today's your last final. We'll celebrate,

    David reaches over and gives Renee a warm amorous kiss.

    RENEE

    Hurry up or you'll be late for class.

    EXT. MEDICAL SCHOOL AMPITHEATER- DAY

    SERIES OF SHOTS

    DAVID emerges from the main entrance of the University of California Medical School, walking with a slight swagger. He is wearing a white lab coat with his nametag on it.

    Reats is accompanied by SCOTT MILLER, 25, tall and slender with short blond hair, pinkish complexion, and clean-shaven. Miller also wears a lab coat with his nametag on it.

    The weather is overcast and chilly, both men are walking toward the student union. Faint sounds of a megaphone can be heard in the distance.

    DAVID

    (To Scott)

    It’s over!

    SCOTT

    (Smiling)

    Pinch me I can't believe it!

    DAVID

    Renee and I plan take off for Tahoe tomorrow.

    SCOTT

    (To David)

    I wish I could meet someone like her.

    DAVID

    Married life is no cinch. You're the lucky bastard no responsibilities, interning at Presbyterian. Christ who knows where I'm going?

    SCOTT.

    With your luck probably Hawaii

    DAVID

    Ya, with my luck a minesweeper in Alaska.

    They walk further on; the megaphones are getting louder and clearer, with rumbling and chanting in the background.

    CROWD (O.S)

    GET OUT OF THE WAR, GET OUT OF THE WAR!

    SCOTT

    I told you not to join the Navy, but no... You were too proud to take the old man's money.

    DAVID

    It's a matter of principle of which you know nothing. I'm not going to be indebted to a damn fascist even if he's my father-in-law. Hell, he likes you better than he likes me.

    SCOTT

    No kidding, he really likes me? I didn't think he noticed me.

    DAVID

    He's a bag ah wind, he'll say anything to cut me down. The guy's anal. He writes everything down, I mean everything. When

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