Writing

Jack Townley

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Sis Hopkins poster
6.3

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

Sis Hopkins

1941

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NR

Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.

Idle Roomers

1931

Scatterbrain poster
7.5

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Scatterbrain

1940

Bridge Wives poster
6.7

A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.

Bridge Wives

1932

Petticoat Larceny poster
7.0

An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.

Petticoat Larceny

1943

Hot Shots poster
6.2

Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.

Hot Shots

1956

My Wife's Relatives poster
7.0

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.

My Wife's Relatives

1939

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8.0

An old lady and her two girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.

Ocean Swells

1934

Queenie of Hollywood poster
NR

Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.

Queenie of Hollywood

1931

No artwork available
9.0

Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.

Hollywood Luck

1932

Havana Rose poster
7.0

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. When word of the difficulties filters back home it's Viva la Revolution. But Estelita, disguised as a fortune teller tries to convince astrology believer Fillmore that the stars are propitious for his making the loan.

Havana Rose

1951

No artwork available
9.0

Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short

Keep Laughing

1932

One Exciting Week poster
6.5

The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...

One Exciting Week

1946

Here Comes Elmer poster
10.0

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.

Here Comes Elmer

1943

Home on the Prairie poster
7.5

When shifty cattlemen Belknap (Walter Miller) and H.R. Shelby (Gordon Hart) are caught shipping infected animals to Mexico, they frame inspector Gene Autry. Now Autry and his sidekick, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), must catch the bad guys in the act and set things straight. June Storey co-stars as rancher Martha Wheeler. Autry sings "I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues," "Moonlight on the Ranch House" and "Big Bull Frog."

Home on the Prairie

1939

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8.0

Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.

Smart Work

1931

The Traitor Within poster
10.0

In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.

The Traitor Within

1942

Mummy's Boys poster
5.0

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."

Mummy's Boys

1936

Crashing Las Vegas poster
5.7

An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.

Crashing Las Vegas

1956

The Great Gildersleeve poster
6.2

A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.

The Great Gildersleeve

1942

Three Hollywood Girls poster
3.3

Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because they the producers won't meet her price the newest of the trio whose fresh off the bus from Omaha takes it and finds success.

Three Hollywood Girls

1931

The Last Round-up poster
7.3

A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.

The Last Round-up

1947

The Yellow Rose of Texas poster
6.1

Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.

The Yellow Rose of Texas

1944

No artwork available
9.0

The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.

Moonlight and Cactus

1932

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood poster
5.4

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

1931

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8.0

Up Pops the Duke is a 1931 Comedy short.

Up Pops the Duke

1931

Gildersleeve's Bad Day poster
6.6

Gildersleeve has jury duty.

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943

Rookies on Parade poster
10.0

The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.

Rookies on Parade

1941

No artwork available
10.0

The Tamale Vendor is a 1931 Comedy short where a young woman is being forced into a marriage by her father.

The Tamale Vendor

1931

Faces in the Fog poster
4.3

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....

Faces in the Fog

1944

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5.0

Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.

Hip Zip Hooray

1933

The Plot Thickens poster
6.2

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

The Plot Thickens

1936

No artwork available
NR

A 1931 Comedy short.

Once a Hero

1931

No artwork available
10.0

The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.

The Back Page

1931

No artwork available
NR

That's My Meat is a 1931 Comedy short.

That's My Meat

1931

Grandpa Goes To Town poster
10.0

Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.

Grandpa Goes To Town

1940

Romance on the Run poster
7.0

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.

Romance on the Run

1938

Oklahoma Annie poster
8.7

A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.

Oklahoma Annie

1952

The Disembodied poster
4.8

When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree that turns the jungle blood red.

The Disembodied

1957

Hitchhike to Happiness poster
7.0

An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."

Hitchhike to Happiness

1945