Screenplay: Leo Townsend
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Leo Townsend. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
It Started with Eve
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee
Plot A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...
6.6
78 votes
6.6
78 votes
Dangerous Crossing
1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Jeanne Crain · Michael Rennie · Max Showalter · Carl Betz
Plot A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner. Her happiness does not last when she finds that her husband has disappeared. Trouble is, no one...
6.5
115 votes
6.5
115 votes
Vicki
1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Harry Horner
Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid
Plot The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.
6.3
34 votes
6.3
34 votes
Fräulein
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Dana Wynter · Mel Ferrer · Dolores Michaels · Margaret Hayes
Plot A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
6.1
25 votes
6.1
25 votes
Night and Day
1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Cary Grant · Alexis Smith · Monty Woolley · Mary Martin
Plot With Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) as director, Cary Grant in the lead, and wall-to-wall songs by Cole Porter, how could Night and Day lose? Why, by taking broad liberties with the...
6.0
533 votes
6.0
533 votes
Maverick (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Leslie H. Martinson · Douglas Heyes · Richard L. Bare · Arthur Lubin
Cast Jack Kelly · James Garner · Roger Moore · Lane Chandler
6.0
49 votes
6.0
49 votes
Southside 1-1000
1950 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Boris Ingster
Cast Don DeFore · Andrea King · George Tobias · Barry Kelley
Plot The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate...
6.0
27 votes
6.0
27 votes
Port of New York
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Laslo Benedek
Cast Scott Brady · Richard Rober · K.T. Stevens · Yul Brynner
Plot Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from the S.S. Florentine. The vicious gang responsible is headed by the ruthless, but debonair Paul...
5.9
61 votes
5.9
61 votes
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Bruce Manning
Cast Deanna Durbin · Edmond O'Brien · Barry Fitzgerald · Arthur Treacher
Plot A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
5.5
59 votes
5.5
59 votes
White Feather
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert D. Webb
Cast Robert Wagner · John Lund · Debra Paget · Jeffrey Hunter
Plot The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when one the officers falls for the...
5.5
177 votes
5.5
177 votes
Beach Blanket Bingo
1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction William Asher
Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Deborah Walley · Harvey Lembeck
Plot In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who...
4.5
29 votes
4.5
29 votes
Bikini Beach
1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction William Asher
Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Martha Hyer · Don Rickles
Plot A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to...
4.2
31 votes
4.2
31 votes
Chip Off the Old Block
1944 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Donald O´Connor · Peggy Ryan · Ann Blyth · Helen Vinson
Plot The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
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The Shadow on the Window
1957 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction William Asher
Cast Phil Carey · Betty Garrett · John Drew Barrymore · Corey Allen
Plot Three teenagers, led by psychopathic Jess Reber, break into an isolated farmhouse and murder its prosperous owner whose secretary, Linda Atlas, witnesses the crime. The three thugs decide to hold...
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Morning Call
1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Crabtree
Cast Greta Gynt · Ron Randell · Gerard Green · Bruce Seton
Plot Private eye and Police inspector join forces to track down an unknown blackmailer.
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William Asher
Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Dwayne Hickman · Brian Donlevy
Plot Frankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it...
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That Way with Women
1947 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova
Cast Dane Clark · Martha Vickers · Sydney Greenstreet · Alan Hale
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Seven Sweethearts
1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Kathryn Grayson · Marsha Hunt · Cecilia Parker · Peggy Moran
Plot Covering the tulip festival in Little Delft, Michigan, reporter Henry Taggart takes a room at an inn ran by an eccentric old Dutchman, Mr. Van Maaster and his seven daughters....
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A Life in the Balance
1955 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Harry Horner · Rafael Portillo
Cast Ricardo Montalban · Anne Bancroft · Lee Marvin · José Pérez
Plot Third-billed Lee Marvin dominates the proceedings in A Life in the Balance. Marvin plays a psycho killer, whose trail is dogged by inquistive young Jose Perez. Jose's father, musician Ricardo...
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The Patty Duke Show (TV Series)
1963 · Series · 32 min. · United States
Direction William Asher · Sidney Sheldon · Stanley Prager · Gary Nelson
Cast Patty Duke · Jean Byron · William Schallert · Paul O'Keefe
Plot TV Series (1963-1966). 3 seasons. 105 episodes. Cathy Lane, teen-aged daughter of a globe-trotting journalist, comes to live at the home of her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York...
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