Leo Townsend

Movies

Fireball 500
Writer
Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Writer
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Beach Blanket Bingo
Writer
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 hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
I'd Rather Be Rich
Writer
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Bikini Beach
Screenplay
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 build a retirement home.
Fräulein
Writer
In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.
The Shadow on the Window
Screenplay
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Four Boys and a Gun
Writer
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
The Strange Case of Dr. Manning
Writer
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
Running Wild
Screenplay
To get evidence against a crooked garage owner, a rookie cop masquerades as a hard case who wants a job as a mechanic.
A Life in the Balance
Screenplay
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
White Feather
Screenplay
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.
Vicki
Additional Writing
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
Dangerous Crossing
Screenplay
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 else ever saw him board the ship with her and his name has mysteriously dropped from the passenger list.
One Big Affair
Screenplay
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teacher Jean Harper misses her tour bus, all of a sudden Jimmy is in for much more than he bargained for.
Southside 1-1000
Screenplay
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
Black Hand
Story
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
Port of New York
Dialogue
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
That Way with Women
Screenplay
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
Night and Day
Screenplay
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
Can't Help Singing
Story
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Chip Off the Old Block
Screenplay
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Writer
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Seven Sweethearts
Screenplay
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
It Started with Eve
Writer
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 turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.