Loglines & Screenplays by Ron Schaefer

GENRES: Fantasy

A dispute between Mesopotamian Gods leads to the vindictive creation of a giant made out of rock to threaten the heavens and bring destruction to the coastal towns from which he springs.

GENRES: Comedy

Sketch comedy in the form of Cable Television.

GENRES: Comedy

Sketch comedy in the form of Cable Television.  Sequel to "Funny You Should Ask."

GENRES: Fantasy

A King's wife gives birth to a boy inside a conch shell and is exiled to a place where the boy grows up among the forest animals before he is captured and sent to live with serpents and ogres before he returns to reclaim his rightful throne.

GENRES: Fantasy

Babylonian epic about a king who is so afraid of death he leaves his throne and journeys to a distant land to find the one man he believes has the secret of immortality.

GENRES: Comedy

A nouveau-riche merchant's daughter is drafted by a cash-poor duke to be his wife and pay off debts, but his philandering ways makes him a target for revenge by both bride and the groom's aunt.

GENRES: Period Piece

A Navy administrator must manage and entire province of rain forest in New Guinea, when a native uprising is swelling, and bureaucratic prejudices add further obstacles.

GENRES: Period Piece

Two Ministers on opposing sides of the former King and the pretender to the throne, battle it out through the use of spies, to gain dominance for the new regime.

GENRES: Romance

4 tales of love and loss from medieval France from the mouth of Marie de France.

GENRES: Fantasy

Son of Pharaoh, in order to become a more powerful magician, pursues the secrets hidden in the Book of Thoth, supposedly written by Thoth, God of Magic, himself, only to find he can't control what he finds inside its contents.

GENRES: Fantasy

The Queen of Heaven heads into the Underworld to retrieve magic tablets only to be held prisoner and can only be released at the promise of someone else to take her place -- like her husband.

GENRES: Fantasy

Three short stories from the Eastern Woodland tribes, filled with magic and fantasy: MANABOZHO; THE BUFFALO DANCE; &, KEEWAYDIN & THE GRANITE MAN.

GENRES: Period Piece

Adaptation and Revision of Friedrich Schiller's play about a misunderstood officer of the Emperor who attempts to make peace with the enemy rather than conquering them only to have the Imperial forces betray him for cowardice.

GENRES: Period Piece

A famed sculptor is hired by the King of Rhodes to build a gigantic statue at the mouth of the harbor, despite the natural obstacles that making it seem an impossible task.

GENRES: Science Fiction

A doctor is sent to play investigator when a mysterious illness begins dissolving people's brains, and must find a vaccine, treatment, cure, or other preventative quickly when his own wife becomes infected.

GENRES: Biopic / True Story

A homespun philosopher in ancient Athens develops a string of followers and public admiration as well as the wrath of the ruling committee bent on his destruction.

GENRES: Adventure

A military hero has fallen into a forbidden relation with the princess, and his rival is a general from the royal family; but when a siege goes badly, he is banished, forcing the couple to marry in secret against the chief's approval.

GENRES: Adventure

A daughter of a tribal chief falls for a Spanish Conquistador, but when her brother raises a band of rebels to revolt, the uprising attempts to rip the lovers apart.

GENRES: Period Piece

An outlaw takes possession of an island he claims is his, but the resident thinks otherwise and relentlessly pursues him when the court fails to rule in his favor.

GENRES: Western

A poor traveler, having lost everything is willing to put up his wife as a bet in a con man's game dealing magic voodoo bones.

GENRES: Drama

A farmer's wife rescues a Black woman and her baby in a world where Black people are illegal.

GENRES: Romance

Ovid leads a full compliment of Roman poets through the trials and tribulations of love.

GENRES: Period Piece

Leif Eirikson leaves Greenland and finds and entirely new continent on which to settle his family.

GENRES: Fantasy

At the beginning of their careers, King Arthur and his knights are confronted with various strong and magical challengers who threaten to break apart the newly formed Round Table of Knights-errants.

GENRES: Period Piece

A British artist comes to America to get in on the adventure of the western expansion, signs on as a railroad surveyor, falls for a chief's daughter, and becomes a go-between for railroad and natives, to the jealousy of others.

GENRES: Horror

3 ghostly tales from Mesoamerica: The She Demon; The Jaguar Man; The Goddess of the Lake

GENRES: Comedy

A bored upper crust family spending summer at their country estate decide to kill a cousin as a diversion only to find he has a talent for staying alive.

GENRES: Period Piece

A cleric tries to expose a baron of the abduction and murder of dozens of children in the Nantes region of France.

GENRES: Comedy

An unlucky handyman has a habit of accidentally killing people he encounters.

GENRES: Period Piece

Daughter of a famous philosopher herself becomes famous as scientist and teacher until the church steps in and proclaims her a danger to society and an enemy of the church.

GENRES: Fantasy

A king's daughter refuses to have him pick a husband for her, and goes out on her own to find one, discovering a woodsman who is actually a prince in exile; but when they unite in marriage, she discovers that Yama, the God of Death, has been pursuing him, and she bargains with the demon for her husband's life.

GENRES: Period Piece

A friar assigned as a journalist aboard a merchant vessel exploring the South American interior is the lone survivor of a Carib Indian attack and has to make his way on foot to find his way to another ship in order to return to Hispaniola.

GENRES: Mystery

8 medieval Japanese ghostly folktales are told from the view from the shoreline.

GENRES: Period Piece

Donatien-Alphonse de Sade is raised equally by a rich family and a reprobate deacon in pre-revolutionary France, and becomes incarcerated for his many depraved outings only to become one of the leading voices during the revolution in attempting for political reform.

GENRES: Drama

A group of war refugees fleeing the battle zone on a bus through the Libyan desert are trapped in a sandstorm and are taking to an ancient caravansery to plan their next move when the German army shows up to occupy the place.

GENRES: Western

The two wealthiest families in an Ozark pass clash when the hot-headed sons of both families get into a spat over a minor perceived slight, forcing the entire valley to take sides.

GENRES: Other

A mustang colt must grow up quickly through starvation, weather, rivals, & humans, to survive

long enough to start his own herd.

GENRES: Horror

A young couple, caught in a storm, seek refuge at the house of a doctor who kidnaps people and uses them for his medical experiments.

GENRES: Horror

A Scottish grad is pulled from his studies for a Canadian hunting trip who gets attacked by a

mysterious entity forcing a return journey to save his companion as well as his own sanity.

GENRES: Other

A priest in a small border town helps a young prostitute escape into the United States when her brothel discovers she's a runaway.

GENRES: Drama

Anthology of collected early dramas.

GENRES: Period Piece

A runaway slave signs on to a whaling ship and becomes a skilled harpoonier, but returns to his home to take up the cause of the colonial rebels after seeing the slave trade in the Caribbean.

GENRES: Period Piece

A Texas boy rises from Border Patrol to the most powerful lobbyist in Washington

despite a murder charge and party opposition.

GENRES: Other

A ghost writer takes a job to write the "autobiography" of a New York cabbie, but becomes conflicted about the job when he discovers he actually writing a ridiculous heroic fantasy.

GENRES: Horror

A suburban ranch house is the setting over a 50 year span of occupants having to contend with ghosts after a string of murder/suicides.

GENRES: Period Piece

An Ex-Confederate Officer and full-time huckster creates a socio-political fraternity out of

a failed reformation group to become one of the biggest political machines in history.

GENRES: Horror

College boys with time off from school, head to the mountains for a few days of hunting and fishing, but instead find their rented cabin haunted by creatures leaving a trail of corpses behind.

GENRES: Other

Anthology of comedy scripts from Ron HS Schaefer.

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GENRES: Other

Anthology of war dramas by Ron HS Schaefer

GENRES: Horror

Anthology of 8 short stories about various excursions into the worlds beyond the veil.

GENRES: Comedy

6 stories set in the realm of people out of whack.

GENRES: Period Piece

An orphan from St. Domingue crosses the ocean to join the French Army, becoming

Napoleon’s most famous swordsman despite the racial prejudice against him.

GENRES: Western

A local preacher, entering a dispute between families, tries to save a girl from abuse who is the product of a rape/murder, and in the process is accused himself of the crime.

GENRES: Comedy

A mid-management businessman is sent from London to 1890s Providence, Rhode Island, against his wishes, to supervise the new American division of the company, but finds the American lifestyle, and his wife's interest in Women's voting rights, impossible.

GENRES: Comedy

Faced with an irresponsible Ex, a job full of backstabbers & lotharios, & a neglected brood, a businesswoman packs up kids & best friend and heads west for adventures in dude ranches, casinos, & theme parks to regain her wits and her family.

GENRES: Drama

A smalltown businessman and local despot becomes unhinged when his only daughter takes up with a boy from the "wrong side of the tracks" on the night he is to be awarded businessman of the year.

GENRES: Period Piece

A slow-witted Black man is accused of murdering a young White girl in a Texas border town

leading to the most infamous execution in Texas history.

GENRES: Drama

A group of survivalists gather in a mountain retreat to fend off an assumed attack of federal troops, but when they don't arrive, they begin taking their aggressions out on each other.

GENRES: Other

Anthology of short stories of strange events.

GENRES: Comedy

A college professor rents a hotel basement to hide from the world while he writes his biography of Napoleon, only to discover he shares his apartment with a family of giant talking rats.

GENRES: Science Fiction

On a night when ghostly monsters appear, a Cool Inspector races his truck of misfits

to the city under attack to rescue his Ex.

GENRES: Period Piece

A family struggles with the wrath of the November weather in its attempt to battle
Lake Michigan to transport Christmas trees to the people of Chicago in 1898

GENRES: Comedy

A theatrical family spends the summer on a rented house on the eastern shore to become reacquainted with themselves, each other, and repair any old riffs that have taken place over the past.

GENRES: Science Fiction

An ex-con, being chased by police, discovers a wrecked spaceship with an escape pod

that he uses for a getaway vehicle to make it across the border.

GENRES: Drama

A boy's family vacation's in the post-WWI Baltics when a German army officer and his staff overtake the place as WWII begins, forcing them to flee, and the boy encouraged to join the RAF espionage staff.

GENRES: Film Noir

An interrogator for the mob is himself interrogated by his former mentor when an issue of missing funds is aimed in his direction.

GENRES: Other

An American ex-patriot coming back from the Spanish Civil War and disgruntled with humanity, books passage on a tramp steamer bound for the Caribbean to drink away his troubles, only to find he is onboard with a Nazi gun-runner supplying South American rebels for their various insurrections.

GENRES: Mystery

When a field biochemist gets stranded on what he thinks is an uninhabited island, he finds himself first rescued, and later held hostage, by an old man and his two precocious daughters for a nefarious purpose of his own.

GENRES: Military/War

A young lieutenant in the army engineer corps is forced to send his men to dig a water hole in the middle of the desert for the frontlines despite the war going on around him.

GENRES: Horror

A surgeon with an obsession with an actress is called into duty to save her husband, a pianist, who is badly injured in a trainwreck and must have his hands amputated.

GENRES: Adventure

After being robbed and raped at gunpoint, the daughter of a French aristocrat hires one of the Royal Guardsman to teach her to fight, and to help her find the villain who attacked her.

GENRES: Science Fiction

A secret agent with psychic powers hunts an arms/drug dealer to bring him to justice

and rescue his kidnapped lover.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

When a frustrated professor/novelist sees his lead character wandering around campus, he must

find the secret to her existence before his obsession leads to psychosis and murder.

GENRES: Drama

2 convicts and a suicide share an abandoned fishing shack together as they plan their escape to Mexico, but first they have to overcome their differences in order for it to work.

GENRES: Drama

A king divides his kingdom in two and gives them to his two sons, only to start a family rivalry and a civil war.

GENRES: Drama

 A group of weekend hunters out in the woods looking for deer accidentally shoot a farmer's dog which upsets him enough to go out on a hunt for them.