Black Screen.

People are talking in hushed tones.

Then titles over black screen.

Ernest Hemingway Goes on Trial :Nancy, France, October 6th 1944.

1. INT. HOTEL DINING ROOM/COURTROOM. DAY

The room – the hotel’s small oak panelled dining room – is crowded with various US ARMY PERSONNEL, including COLONEL LANHAM, who are talking to each other in hushed tones, plus a small group of CORRESPONDENTS who, for the most part, are silent (some are smoking) each one busy with their own thoughts. A tall, white helmeted US ARMY MP is standing in front of the door: no one comes or goes without his permission. Suddenly there’s a loud knock on the door and the MP allows COLONEL CLARENCE C. PARK to enter. The room becomes quiet as PARK walks to the far end of the room, moves around a large desk and sits facing the door. There is a large window behind PARK through which we can see the US Army and the local population going about their business. The assembled US ARMY PERSONNEL, and CORRESPONDENTS, go to their respective seats- with COL LANHAM taking a seat that will keep him within camera shot for most of the scene. Everyone looks toward the closed door. In the far distance we can hear artillery, and small arms fire. There is another knock on the door. The MP opens the door and allows ERNEST HEMINGWAY – who is accompanied by another MP – to enter. HEMINGWAY, who is wearing a grey tweed suite, white shirt and red tie, and carrying a briefcase, looks around the room, nodding to anyone he recognises, with
a special wide grin for LANHAM. When HEMINGWAY sees the assembled bunch of CORRESPONDENTS he stares at them hard, they avert their eyes. The MP then guides HEMINGWAY to a desk some twenty feet away from, but directly opposite, COLONEL PARK. In a relaxed fashion ERNEST HEMINGWAY sits down facing PARK, opens his briefcase and takes out several closely typed sheets of paper. All is silent except for distant gunfire..

(A US ARMY CAPTAIN, standing behind his desk, situated close to PARK, addresses the court.)

CAPTAIN: All rise.

(The CAPTAIN waits until everyone is standing.)

CAPTAIN: This military investigation and interrogation of Ernest
Hemingway, commencing this day, the 6th of October, 1944, in the
American occupied sector known as S.H-2, Nancy, North Eastern France,
and in the temporary HQ of the Inspector General, US Third Army (Rear),
is now in session, with Inspector General Colonel Clarence C. Park,
presiding. You may sit.