Tay Garnett

Tay Garnett

Nacimiento : 1894-06-13, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1977-10-03

Historia

William Taylor "Tay" Garnett (June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977) was an American film director and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tay Garnett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Tay Garnett

Películas

Timber Tramps
Director
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Challenge to be Free
Director
A friendly trapper tries to escape civilization.
The Delta Factor
Screenplay
Morgan, un criminal internacional encarcelado por el presunto robo de 40 millones de dólares, es reclutado por la CIA para participar en una misión secreta dirigida por la agente Kim Stacy. Tendrá que hacerse pasar por un traficante de drogas para rescatar a un científico cautivo en una remota isla del Caribe, gobernada por un brutal dictador.
The Delta Factor
Director
Morgan, un criminal internacional encarcelado por el presunto robo de 40 millones de dólares, es reclutado por la CIA para participar en una misión secreta dirigida por la agente Kim Stacy. Tendrá que hacerse pasar por un traficante de drogas para rescatar a un científico cautivo en una remota isla del Caribe, gobernada por un brutal dictador.
The Best of Cinerama
Director
A selection of excerpts from the first Cinerama films.
Pistolas en la frontera
Director
Western de serie B. Un honrado ranchero de Wyoming (Robert Taylor) debe enfrentarse con un malvado individuo que planea arrebatarle sus tierras.
Los luchadores de la noche
Director
En 1941, el IRA tiene previsto una campaña para coincidir con la planeada invasión alemana de Inglaterra. Dermott O'Neil (Robert Mitchum) encuentra fácil entrar en el IRA, pero ¿podrá salir?
Seven Wonders of the World
Director
Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World."
El caballero negro
Director
La acción transcurre en Camelot. Leonette, la hija de un conde, está enamorada de John, un intrépido caballero, pero su padre desaprueba esta relación. Un día los sorprende juntos, y John se ve obligado a huir. Pasado algún tiempo, unos vikingos asaltan el castillo, asesinando al Conde y a su famillia. Poco después, aparece en Inglaterra un caballero negro, que jura vengar la muerte del conde y los suyos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Main Street to Broadway
Director
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Corea, Hora Cero
Producer
En la primavera de 1950, las tropas norcoreanas empiezan a bombardear e invadir Corea del Sur. El ejército norteamericano trata de frenar el avance del invasor. Se ordena la evacuación de la población civil norteamericana, y el coronel Steve Janowski obliga a Linda Day, una funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas de quien se ha enamorado instantáneamente, a abandonar el país. Herido en combate, Steve reencuentra a Linda en un hospital japonés. Pero ambos volverán a Corea: ella a desempeñar tareas humanitarias, él a seguir luchando.
Corea, Hora Cero
Director
En la primavera de 1950, las tropas norcoreanas empiezan a bombardear e invadir Corea del Sur. El ejército norteamericano trata de frenar el avance del invasor. Se ordena la evacuación de la población civil norteamericana, y el coronel Steve Janowski obliga a Linda Day, una funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas de quien se ha enamorado instantáneamente, a abandonar el país. Herido en combate, Steve reencuentra a Linda en un hospital japonés. Pero ambos volverán a Corea: ella a desempeñar tareas humanitarias, él a seguir luchando.
El soborno
Co-Director
El Sindicato del Crimen controla la ciudad. Su jefe es alguien cuya identidad se desconoce y a quien llaman "el Anciano". La corrupción se ha adueñado de las instituciones e incluso de las fuerzas del orden. Thomas McQuigg, un honrado capitán de policía, ha sido trasladado por sus superiores a una comisaría de barrio para mantenerlo al margen. Pero él no se rinde: con la ayuda de Johnson, un policía tan íntegro y valiente como él, emprende una implacable cruzada contra uno de los gánsteres más influyentes de la ciudad.
Tres soldados
Director
La India, siglo XIX. Relata las aventuras de tres camaradas que sirven en la Marina Británica.
Motivo de alarma
Director
George Jones es un hombre que se encuentra inválido en una silla de ruedas y que padece también trastornos psicológicos. Además, está obsesionado con la idea de que su mujer Ellen está teniendo una relación adúltera con el médico que le atiende y que ambos planean matarle.
Ruedas de fuego
Writer
Un joven huérfano (Mickey Rooney) sueña con ser una estrella de las carreras de patines. Cuando logra el título de campeón llegan los honores y las novias de pega. Sin embargo, cuando se ve afectado por la enfermedad de la polio y pierde sus facultades para patinar, se dará cuenta de quienes son sus verdaderos amigos.
Ruedas de fuego
Director
Un joven huérfano (Mickey Rooney) sueña con ser una estrella de las carreras de patines. Cuando logra el título de campeón llegan los honores y las novias de pega. Sin embargo, cuando se ve afectado por la enfermedad de la polio y pierde sus facultades para patinar, se dará cuenta de quienes son sus verdaderos amigos.
Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo
Director
Un golpe en la cabeza hace que el mecánico Hank Martin sea transportado desde 1912 a la Edad Media, concretamente a la época del Rey Arturo y los Caballeros de la Mesa Redonda. Musical de la Paramount basado en la obra de Mark Twain.
La mujer disputada
Director
Melodrama que toma como punto de partida a los granjeros de Texas, en forma de un pasional triángulo amoroso formado por los amigos Joe Madigan (Alan Ladd), Jim Davis (Robert Preston) y una chica deseosa de recibir caros regalos (Dorothy Lamour). Los dos amigos se enfrentarán hasta las últimas consecuencias por el amor de la muchacha.
El cartero siempre llama dos veces
Director
Durante la Gran Depresión, Frank Chambers, un hombre sin rumbo, comienza a trabajar en un bar de carretera, regentado por un hombre mayor y por Cora, su joven, bella e infeliz esposa.
El valle del destino
Director
Pittsburgh, siglo XIX. Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), una bella joven que proviene de una familia proletaria, entra a trabajar en casa de la rica familia Scott, que es la propietaria de la fábrica siderúrgica donde trabajan los hombres de su familia. Allí, Mary enseguida atrae la atención del apuesto Paul Scott (Gregory Peck).
La señora Parkington
Director
Una mujer ambiciosa, que se ha propuesto entrar a toda costa en la alta sociedad, contrae matrimonio con un hombre rico.
La cruz de Lorena
Director
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados franceses se entregan a las tropas nazis con la promesa de que desertarán y podrán marcharse a su hogar. Sin embargo, los alemanes no cumplen su palabra y les internan en un campo de prisioneros.
Batán
Director
Después de la invasión de las islas Filipinas por tropas japonesas, los Estados Unidos intentan recuperarlas. Trece soldados defienden con sus vidas una posición estratégica en la península de Bataan, último baluarte de la resistencia norteamericana frente a Japón.
Mi espía favorita
Director
Justo antes de embarcarse en su luna de miel, el soldado Kay Kyser recibe la orden de presentarse en el cuartel general para una peligrosa misión: actuar como espía en un club nocturno donde parece ser se ha localizado a un grupo de nazis. Su esposa Terry no parece conformarse con la soledad, así que parte en busca de su nuevo marido. Esto, unido a la torpeza de Kyser y la intervención de una rubia agente secreta dará lugar a todo tipo de situaciones cómicas.
Weekend for Three
Producer
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Tío improvisado
Producer
Un caballero jubilado acude en auxilio de una joven, haciéndose pasar por su tío.
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Director
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
De isla en isla
Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
De isla en isla
Director
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Con su misma arma
Producer
Dos abogados (Pat O’Brien y Broaderick Crawford) se aprovechan de unos escándalos políticos en la administración de carreteras para hacer negocios. Dodd, una bella divorciada implicada en el escándalo, es hallada muerta con un cuchillo clavado a su espalda. O'Brien toma la determinación de resolver los crímenes por su cuenta y riesgo, pero a cada paso que da los problemas se agravan...
Con su misma arma
Reporter (Uncredited)
Dos abogados (Pat O’Brien y Broaderick Crawford) se aprovechan de unos escándalos políticos en la administración de carreteras para hacer negocios. Dodd, una bella divorciada implicada en el escándalo, es hallada muerta con un cuchillo clavado a su espalda. O'Brien toma la determinación de resolver los crímenes por su cuenta y riesgo, pero a cada paso que da los problemas se agravan...
Con su misma arma
Director
Dos abogados (Pat O’Brien y Broaderick Crawford) se aprovechan de unos escándalos políticos en la administración de carreteras para hacer negocios. Dodd, una bella divorciada implicada en el escándalo, es hallada muerta con un cuchillo clavado a su espalda. O'Brien toma la determinación de resolver los crímenes por su cuenta y riesgo, pero a cada paso que da los problemas se agravan...
Eternamente tuya
Pilot
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Eternamente tuya
Director
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Trade Winds
Producer
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Trade Winds
Story
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Trade Winds
Director
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Joy of Living
Man on Phone in Newspaper Office (Uncredited)
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Joy of Living
Producer
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Joy of Living
Director
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Siempre Eva
Director
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
Redención
Director
El capitán Lovett ordenó a su primer oficial Thompson deshacerse de su tripulación, que se dedica al tráfico de esclavos, y contratar a marineros respetables, pero cuando se trae a su nueva novia Nancy a bordo, se encuentra con el mismo tipo de situación, incluido el comercio de esclavos.
Amor y periodismo
Director
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Soldado profesional
Director
En un imaginario reino europeo, sus gobernantes en la sombra contratan al soldado de fortuna Michael Donovan para que secuestre a su príncipe heredero. Sin embargo, cuando Michael descubre que la intención de los que le han pagado consiste en asesinar al joven, se convertirá en su aliado, y juntos acabarán con los malvados conspiradores al trono.
She Couldn't Take It
Director
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Los mares de China
Director
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) es el capitán de un barco experto en cruzar los mares de China. Es un hombre experimentado, fuerte y aguerrido, al parecer de vuelta de todo. En cierta ocasión, el barco debe transportar un importante cargamento de oro desde Hong Kong hasta Singapur. Gaskell teme algo más peligroso que un tifón; el ataque, frecuente en la zona, de los piratas para hacerse con el botín.
S.O.S. Iceberg
Director
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg (1933), made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year. The German film is approximately 10 minutes longer.
Destination Unknown
Director
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Viaje de ida
Director
Dan Hardesty, un hombre sobre quien pesa una acusación de asesinato, viaja en un barco escoltado por un policía, haciendo una travesía desde Hong Kong a la prisión norteamericana de San Quintín. Durante el viaje conoce a Joan, una muchacha gravemente enferma del corazón, de la que se enamora. Dan intenta fugarse, pero regresa al ver que Joan está sufriendo un ataque. Es entonces cuando planean fugarse a México. (FILMAFFINITY)
Okay, America!
Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Okay, America!
Director
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Panama Flo
Director
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Prestige
Adaptation
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Prestige
Director
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Bad Company
Writer
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
Bad Company
Director
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
Her Man
Story
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Her Man
Director
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Officer O'Brien
Director
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
Oh, Yeah!
Writer
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
Oh, Yeah!
Director
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
The Flying Fool
Director
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
The Spieler
Writer
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
The Spieler
Director
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Power
Story
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
Power
Screenplay
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
The Cop
Scenario Writer
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
Celebrity
Director
a prizefighter poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. As an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, she can’t help falling for the big lug, leading to an elegantly understated climax.
Skyscraper
Writer
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
Fiddlesticks
Title Graphics
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
The Wise Wife
Screenplay
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domestic and conservative woman, invites Jenny Lou, a young southern girl, as her houseguest, and the girl flirts with John; she is conspicuously unsuccessful until she pretends to faint on the golf course and the unsuspecting victim finds her in his arms.
Sus primeros pantalones
Writer
Cuando Harry recibe sus primeros pantalones largos, lo primero que hace es intentar impresionar a las chicas. Por desgracia, se enamora de la menos adecuada...
Getting Gertie's Garter
Writer
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
White Gold
Adaptation
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
Rubber Tires
Adaptation
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
The Cruise of the Jasper B
Adaptation
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as 'Jerry Cleggert', a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday - otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven (Mildred Harris) and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers (Snitz Edwards) claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
Up in Mabel's Room
Writer
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
That's My Baby
Writer
On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with women, an hour he meets pretty Helen Raynor, who takes to him (and is also his business rival's daughter). Helen's mother, though, doesn't take to Alan at all. In addition, Schuyler Van Loon, who is also after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain--he comes up with a "baby" he claims is Alan's illegitimate son.
All Wool
Director
Earl Mohan and Billy Engle are paired in a Mutt & Jeff-style comedy.
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Writer
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
Writer
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
The Sleuth
Writer
American silent comedy film
Riders of the Kitchen Range
Director
An odd little one reel comedy starring Earl Mohan and Billy Engle, from the Hal Roach Studio. Directed by Tay Garnett.
Navy Blue Days
Writer
Stationed in a Latin American country, sailor Stan is lonely and wants company. He tries to get his Chief to bring him along to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, but the Chief wants nothing to do with Stan.
Twins
Writer
Stan Laurel solo, playing doubles
Galloping Bungalows
Writer
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Detained
Writer
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent or presume him guilty?
Broken Chains
Writer
The Quack Doctor
Scenario Writer
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.