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

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

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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....

Not rated

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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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