Gene Quintano

Gene Quintano is an American screenwriter and film director. He did not originally plan on a film career. He was a successful salesman, and later owned an office supply company. A business partnership with film director Tony Anthony (1937-) led to them working together on the western "Comin' at Ya!" (1981), which was released in 3-D. The duo counted on the novelty aspect of 3-D by younger film fans, who had not experienced the 3-D craze of the 1950s. Thje film was released by Filmways, and became a surprise box office hit. Quintano and Anthony next worked in Cannon Film's action adventure film "Treasure of the Four Crowns" (1983). The film was criticized as being overtly derivative of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), including copying the scene with the rolling boulder. However, Cannon entrusted Quintano with scripting several other films, most notably the adventure film "King Solomon's Mines" (1985) and its sequel "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (1986). Quintano was next hired as a screenwriter for the then-popular comedy film series "Police Academy". He served as the only credited screenwriter in two of the series' films: "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" (1986) and "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" (1987). Quintano made his directing debut with the spy comedy "Honeymoon Academy" (1989). He also directed the caper film "Why Me?" (1990) the parody film "Loaded Weapon 1" (1993), and the western "Dollar for the Dead" (1998). He also continued work as screenwriter, most notably in the Vietnam war-themed comedy "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995). His last known script was the comedy film "Funky Monkey" (2004).