Lee Martin - Screenwriter Lee Martin
 September 4, 2010

       

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  NOTE: Postings below are for LOGLINES only. To read
  the synopsis for a given script, CLICK on the title.
An American Journey
Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
LOGLINE: The anxious ghost of a WW1 hero follows his son through prohibition, the depression, two wars and a fight with mobsters over his son's childhood sweetheart.
WG# 655917 can be expanded to mini-series
  • BIG TROUBLE IN MULE CREEK
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: An army of outlaws descends on a town and jail defended by a handful of men and women while time runs out.
    WG # pending
  • Billy Segunda - 2nd Life Of Billy The Kid
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Billy secretly survives Garrett's bullet, escapes to a new life where he ends up fighting for justice, finds faith, redemption and love that may be destroyed by his thirst for vengeance.
    WG# 678357
  • Black Rider (Masked Avenger)
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: In 1876, an ex-lawman tries to settle in a valley of killers, resorts to black mask and bedevilment while romancing a rich man's gold-digging but lovable fiancé.
    WG# 755110 can spinoff to TV series; can be animated
  • Black River
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: In 1879, bitter Nathan Reed hunts a Comanchero, stumbles into army corruption, finds his lost son, and rescues a young woman staked out by Apache, not knowing she's in further jeopardy from the man he tracks.
    WG# 789482
  • Bloody Bill Anderson's Other Woman
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: A young lawyer must confront his secret pass when he learns Bloody Bill Anderson, sworn to kill him, is still alive and Bill's second "wife" comes begging for help.
    WG #
  • Boots & Saddles (OPTIONED EXPIRED)
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: In 1876, Captain Steele's lonely supply post is plagued by a martinet Major, a testy Irish spinster, the major's daughter, lovesick officers, and the half-crazed but wily Chiricahua, Cayote, who is after Steele with a vengeance, while Sgt. Jackson, a relentless buffalo soldier, stirs the action and has the Indian sign on Cayote.
    WG# 769378 ntless buffalo soldier, stirs the action and has the Indian sign on Cayote.
  • Capitol Follies / Murders
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: Ginger, bill-sponsor, finds unexpected courage when she stumbles into killers from her ex-husband's law firm, the F.B.I., a local undercover cop and corruption in a state capitol.
    WG# 728028
  • CHRISTMAS HIDEAWY
    Screenplay - Romance
    LOGLINE: Just before Christmas, while her mother-in-law is trying to take away her small son, a penniless widow learns the boy has an uncle and grandfather, both still alive and living on the coast.
    WG #
  • Civil War Christmas
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: In Tennessee, a Confederate officer goes behind the lines as he tries to see his family at Christmas. (Previously packaged by late producer) (Inspired by a true story)
    WG #
  • Dead Man's Creek
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: An embittered Colby Dancer tracks murderers to an outlaw valley, finds a desperate woman rancher in their path, a testy black smithy who reluctantly comes to his aid, and a new unexpected yearning for survival as he rides to a deadly conclusion.
    WG# 617869
  • Dead Man's Walk (OPTION EXPIRED
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Young Eli Cole is on a vengeance trail when he's transformed by a badge, law books, another man's woman, and a sudden wish to live in the face of his last, deadly showdown.
    WG# 680588
  • Deadly Reunion
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: Jenny, with the help of a mysterious stranger who finds her stranded on the highway at night, races up the coast to escape her gambling-addicted, ex-husband Harry
    WG# 792241
  • Die A Little
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: At a remote resort, Lori's fiancé claims to be an undercover agent and twists her into knots with lies and murder while two women from his past each try to kill her, as she fights the painful truth and evades the local sheriff.
    WG# 617480
  • Dumpy And The Runaway Kid
    Screenplay - Family / Fantasy
    LOGLINE: Brave Mickey (11) runs away from the crowded family farm to rescue Judy (10), an orphan kept in a cellar by her greedy aunt, takes up with a junkyard pup, and heads for the mountains where her hermit uncle has a goldmine
    WG# 793476
  • Fast Ride To Boot Hill
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: A grieving Ben Hawks quits the Texas Rangers after his fiancé Laura dies in a stage robbery, but in a dangerous valley, is forced to change his heart when he learns she is alive, in disguise, and rich.
    WG# 617649
  • Frontier Cinderella
    Screenplay - Western, family
    LOGLINE: in progress
    WG #
  • Fury At Cross Creek
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: A haunted, aimless man learns his parents died in a feud when he was a child, and, with the grumbling scout who reared him, tracks the killers into a valley of death where a mysterious woman barber, a besieged young woman rancher,and a strange peddler become his allies, as he discovers a new chance in life, while riding to a deadly conclusion.
    WG# 620158
  • Getting Rid of Leslie
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: If her in-laws have their way, Leslie won't live to her 21st birthday to inherit millions.
    WG #
  • Grant Conspiracy Murders
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: An idealistic young lawyer and a fearless newspaper woman evade a hatchet killer and thwart an evil law firm's plans to assassinate former president Grant in 1880 Colorado. (Available Feature Length or as an Epic in 2 parts)
    WG# 614721 (Based in part on an actual event)
  • Kansas Grange
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: KANSAS GRANGE: Kansas Grange is a gunfighter-preacher with a mysterious past which rises up to force him into a dangerous rescue mission.
    WG# 834429
  • King Of The Mobile Park Lovers
    Screenplay - Romantic Comedy
    LOGLINE: Casey, young Fed, protects grumpy old computer nerd Wally, who moves to mobile park with moocher pal, while inept thugs seek Wally's encryptions and both Casey and Wally tangle with women who are Married to the Mob.
    WG# 668231
  • Last Wild Ride Of Sam Jeffries
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Grumpy ex-lawman, who detests women, escorts a feisty, fugitive widow and her temporarily mute son on a wild ride from a family of killers through Apache country.
    WG# 695280
  • Ma Barker's Boys
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: Ma Barker's boys rob, kidnap and murder, but one leads to a downfall when he falls for a waitress also loved by a Federal agent.
    WG #
  • May The Best Man Win
    Screenplay - Romantic Comedy
    LOGLINE: Bride-to-be and best man, hate each other, are lost in the Sierras after a light plane crash while the groom to-be is consoled at Lake Tahoe by the maid of honor.
    WG# 657927
  • PEARL HART (package expired)
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: PEARL HART & THE VIOLENT MEN: lady bandit, was a celebrity in the old West, torn between two violent men, and the only woman known to have robbed a stage. (Previously packaged by late producr.)(2 main male stars interested)
    WG #
  • Ride The Wild Wind
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Travis West fights Mescalero, vicious rawhiders and hired killers to find a woman who can save his brother from hanging, and Travis from himself, while the man who stole their Texas land closes in for the kill.
    WG# 622929
  • RIGHT DOWN THE GARDEN PATH
    Screenplay - Romantic Comedy
    LOGLINE: When Ellie's schemes to protect his fortune collide with her grandfather's schemes to marry her off, it leads to dangerous romance.
    WG # Pending
  • Run, Sheep Run
    Screenplay - Adventure / Suspense
    LOGLINE: A soured undercover agent romances a racketeer's wife, flees her deadly wrath, and hides on a mountain sheep ranch with his old sergeant and the sergeant's daughter, where he finds hope for himself, as killers close in for the finish.
    WG# 710867
  • RUNAWAY HOLIDAY HEARTS
    Screenplay - Romantic Comedy
    LOGLINE: When a still young state senator, trying to get north to his lost love, is stranded at the Los Angeles airport by fog, he's forced to share a rental car with a difficult young woman who has troubles of her own and an ax to grind with him.
    WG #
  • Shadow On The Mesa (option expired)
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Wes Corbin, an angry and feared gunfighter, hunts long-lost father he believes had his half-breed mother killed, finds treachery and betrayal, redemption, love, and deadly, violent conflict as the truth unfolds.
    WG# 633268
  • The Magic Donkey
    Screenplay - Family / Fantasy
    LOGLINE: In old California, a witch who steals children to sell abroad turns a defiant boy into a magic, flying, talking donkey and his grumpy old dog into a talking bird.
    WG# 717754 (Animated or Live Action/Animated)
  • The Secret Trails
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Elena and her cousin, a government agent, try to identify a preacher in 1879 Wyoming Territory as a traitor and the man who murdered her sister, while dangerous men interfere.
    WG# 762968 (Also offered as a television series)
  • To Kill A Mountain Man
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: After the battle of the Washita, a spooked, lonely mountain man finds hope and renewed faith when he marries a pregnant woman to protect her from outlaw killers, while his Cheyenne enemy awaits.
    WG# 646829
  • Trail Of The Assassin
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: Booth may be alive as a preacher in 1879 Wyoming Territory, protected by deadly fanatics, but a brave woman, who can ID him and his look-alike, is after him with the help of lawyer, whose conflict of interest arises in being forced to defend thepreacher against a murder charge of which he is innocent.
    WG# 628526 (Variation of The Secret Trails)
  • Trail Of The Desperate Woman
    Screenplay - Historical / Western
    LOGLINE: In 1877 Kansas, a fugitive young widow evades the law, is helped by a bounty hunter, and overcomes fear as she tries to rescue her young sons from an elusive, vicious and lecherous father-in-law headed for Apache country.
    WG# 727489 (Also offered as a television series)