Director: Blake West
Producer: Camille LaBry West
Producer: Dallas Brennan
Producer: Kim Barnard
Executive Producer: Jeff Elliott
Casting by: Kerry Barden
Logline:
Forced to raise enough money to marry his sweetheart, a young writer unwittingly becomes part of a wild chase to solve a crime that starts off with a train robbery in the 1930's.
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Screenplay by Simon Woodham
based on a story by Harry Stephen Keeler
Harry Stephen Keeler is the cultest of cult novelists, rapidly gaining a following for his books to rival Ed Wood’s for his films. The Flyer Hold-Up was his first published work, written in 1914. The short story forms the basis of this tale-within-a-tale screenplay that takes its major influences from Harry Stephen Keeler’s astounding and original take on the world.
The 1930s. Dustbowls, Depression and Deco.
DON CARSON, a habitual gambler, leaves Omaha in the baggage car of the Chicago Flyer to try his luck in the Windy City. He intends to make his fortune writing for magazines and periodicals. He has the imagination, he has the typewriter, but after a string of rejections, nobody – least of all his fiancée DORIS BELL and her father EDGAR – believes he has the talent.
Edgar has consented to allow Don and Doris to marry provided Don can earn, by the sweat of his brow, $100 within a month, to prove he’ll be able to keep Doris in comfortable style.
Edgar reckons it’s a pretty safe bet.
But thirty days later Don is back with $130 in his pocket. Edgar flies into a rage: he’s damned sure Don won the money gambling. And besides, he’s now promised his daughter to another man, the heir to a bee-keeping dynasty with better prospects than Don will ever have, and he has no intention of reneging on the deal.
Alone with Doris, Don begins to tell her the story of how he got the money. But he warns her: she’s got to be ready to believe anything...
Early concept art for the film.
