Screenplays by Daryl Henry - Synopses & 1st 3 Pages

Ride The Sun Adaptation of actor Hardy Kruger’s novel Schallmauer about two West German fighter pilots vying for personal supremacy in the air, and for the love of an untamed Canadian airline flight attendant, the loser paying the ultimate price.

Skydive A father and son skydiving team, devoted to clandestine leaps off tall buildings, is hired by the government to thwart a terrorist who plants nuclear explosives atop various U.S. landmarks, the St. Louis Arch, The Golden Gate, Mt. Rushmore, etc.

The Exhibit A Neolithic sage is discovered frozen in the Alaskan ice; thawed, he is selected by the government for exhibition in Washington; but falls in love with a rebellious linguist and escapes to freedom, until he catches the flu.

The Wreck A determined stranger appears on a Big Sur beach and begins to dive on a coastal freighter mysteriously sunk, despite the sinister dissuasions of a clannish family living on the bluffs above; only their daughter befriends him.

Call Me Thursday An apprentice detective named Thursday Holt is the only one with the intuition and courage to tackle terrorists scheming to kidnap the former U.S. Presidents who are meeting in Santa Barbara, despite the objections of her unnerved boss.

Waitin' For A Train A true account of insouciant Jimmie Rodgers, the acknowledged "father of country music" (1897-1933) who rode the southern rails and yodeled the blues until tuberculosis slowed him down, a little.

Half-Life To deter a sudden nation-wide assault on Israel, an impulsive army major orders a single, nuclear-tipped artillery shell fired at the invaders. It’s an American-made shell, and the Arabs demand retribution. When this is not forthcoming, a U.S. nuclear power plant is hijacked and wired for melt-down.

The Sisterhood A fiercely intelligent woman, determined to end patriarchy, builds a mountaintop school for girls, grooming them from birth to adulthood for a gradual take-over of the male world. Staffed with strong women, including selected mothers-in-waiting who need only one commandeered male per year to inseminate them.