Screenplays by Daryl Henry - Synopses & 1st 3 Pages

Captain Alaska An irrepressible bush pilot ventures to Alaska to start an airline before there was such a thing, fomenting a land, sea and air war with a sternwheeler baron who already has the U.S. mail contract, and falling in love with his first passenger, a mail-order bride.

Dead Sure Diagnosed with a terminal illness, a young man sets out to take his own life, failing ludicrously at each attempt, while gradually falling in love with a nurse; just before his final scheme is about to succeed, he learns the diagnosis was wrong.

Dmitriana A true account of a disillusioned Russian immigrant in New York who decides to walk home following the telegraph line through northern British Columbia to Alaska, undeterred by an arrest for vagrancy and the love of a linesman.

Einstein The life of Albert Einstein: high school dropout, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, citizen in turn of Switzerland, Germany and the U.S., a congenial, electric-haired pacifist-- and instigator of the atomic bomb.

Said The Dolphin Joella Bourquin, a marine biologist impregnated by a male dolphin, gives birth to an unusual near-human boy who undertakes to popularize 50 million years of cetacean wisdom acquired from his dad.

Glitch During a test off the coast of Long Island, a U.S. Navy missile goes awry, mistaking a commercial airliner for a dummy rocket, ripping through its fuselage and killing everyone on board; the “targeting error” is subsequently covered up.

All That Glitters An unemployed architect is offered millions to build his socially-innovative design project if he and his buddy-- a retired police officer-- will steal King Tut's Golden Mask from the Cairo Museum for an eccentric collector.

Gunanoot A true account of a wily Kispiox fur-trapper, accused of an unwitnessed murder, who, between clandestine visits to his wife and children, is relentlessly pursued by a poetry-reciting policeman, exhausting them both.