Tay Garnett

Tay Garnett

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

Смерть : 1977-10-03

История

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.

Профиль

Tay Garnett

Фильмы

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.
Дельта фактор
Screenplay
Ким Стейси и Морган - два агента ЦРУ, выполняющие секретную миссию по спасению ученого, заключенного в тюрьму террористами на отдаленном острове.
Дельта фактор
Director
Ким Стейси и Морган - два агента ЦРУ, выполняющие секретную миссию по спасению ученого, заключенного в тюрьму террористами на отдаленном острове.
The Best of Cinerama
Director
A selection of excerpts from the first Cinerama films.
Cattle King
Director
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
A Terrible Beauty
Director
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
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."
The Black Knight
Director
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
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.
One Minute to Zero
Producer
An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
One Minute to Zero
Director
An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
The Racket
Co-Director
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
Три солдата
Director
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
Cause for Alarm!
Director
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
The Fireball
Writer
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
The Fireball
Director
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
Янки при дворе короля Артура
Director
Дело было в начале двадцатого века — жил, не тужил в штате Коннектикут, на американском континенте простой и не амбициозный кузнец по имени Хэнк Мартин, трудился себе спокойно в собственной мастерской, да заодно изучал устройство сногсшибательной новинки автомобиля. И вот как-то он очень торопился и выехал из дома на лошадке в жуткую грозу. Скакал он быстро, поторапливал кобылку, но тут ударила молния, наш герой упал, потерял сознание. Очнулся и…
Wild Harvest
Director
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Почтальон всегда звонит дважды
Director
Фрэнк, путешествующий по Калифорнии в поисках работы, заходит перекусить в придорожную забегаловку. Её владелец Ник предлагает поработать у него, но Фрэнку не очень-то нравится место, пока на сцену не выходит жена Ника. Появление платиновой блондинки Коры в дверном проеме в обтягивающих белых шортах нокаутировало бы любого. Одно из лучших появлений героини в истории кино: мгновенное влечение выплескивается на экран, с самого начала Фрэнк понимает: эта женщина — для него одного. Он остается работать за небольшие деньги и бесплатную комнату, в которой вскоре появляется ОНА! Кора признается Фрэнку, что не любит пожилого мужа и готова бежать с ним отсюда, но они бедны, начинать жизнь с нуля красавица не хочет, а деньги можно получить, только если Ник умрет… Всё идет как по маслу, но от посланника Смерти уйти нельзя — старый Почтальон всегда найдёт Вас и позвонит в Вашу дверь…
Долина решимости
Director
Питтсбург, 1873 год. Мэри Рафферти, девушка из бедной рабочей семьи, устраивается в качестве прислуги в дом Уильяма Скотта - владельца сталелитейного завода. Между Мэри и сыном мистера Скотта Полом возникает сильное чувство...
Миссис Паркингтон
Director
Сьюзи Паркингтон вспоминает историю своей жизни, которая пошла по новому пути после судьбоносной встречи с богачом Огастусом Паркингтоном. С нефтяником, финансистом и будущим супругом горничная познакомилась в отеле в Неваде, откуда он увез ее в Нью-Йорк, сделав из привыкшей к трудностям простушки даму из высшего общества. Но не всё на этом пути было гладко и безмятежно. Деньги, бизнес и личное счастье не всегда между собой в ладу. Много выпало на долю Сьюзи взлетов и падений, уроков и испытаний.
The Cross of Lorraine
Director
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
Bataan
Director
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
My Favorite Spy
Director
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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?
Unexpected Uncle
Producer
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
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.
Семь грешников
Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
Бижу - красивая певица кабаре в Южных Морях, где базируется Военно-морской флот США. Девушка вынуждена кочевать из одного салона в другой с острова на остров, доставляя немало хлопот местным «красоткам», привлекая к себе внимание всех мужчин и разбивая их сердца. Но однажды она влюбляется в морского офицера Дэна Брента. Их роман прекрасен и Дэн предлагает Бижу руку и сердце. Руководящие чины, зная дискредитирующее прошлое Бижу, пробуют отговорить Дэна от брака, дабы спасти его многообещающую карьеру...
Семь грешников
Director
Бижу - красивая певица кабаре в Южных Морях, где базируется Военно-морской флот США. Девушка вынуждена кочевать из одного салона в другой с острова на остров, доставляя немало хлопот местным «красоткам», привлекая к себе внимание всех мужчин и разбивая их сердца. Но однажды она влюбляется в морского офицера Дэна Брента. Их роман прекрасен и Дэн предлагает Бижу руку и сердце. Руководящие чины, зная дискредитирующее прошлое Бижу, пробуют отговорить Дэна от брака, дабы спасти его многообещающую карьеру...
Slightly Honorable
Producer
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Slightly Honorable
Reporter (Uncredited)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Slightly Honorable
Director
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Eternally Yours
Pilot
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
Eternally Yours
Director
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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.
Фабрика грез
Director
Аттербари Додд - лучший бухгалтер на Уолл Стрит. Однажды он вступает в полемику с 70-летним главой компании по поводу решения учредителей продать убыточную студию "Колоссо фильм" за 5 миллионов долларов. Молодой бухгалтер считает, что студия стоит как минимум 10 миллионов и вся история с продажей - это подозрительная фальсификация. Хозяин, выслушав, с доводами Додда соглашается и отправляет его на "фабрику грез" разобраться во всем. Голливуд сразу облетает весть о новом управляющем из Нью-Йорка, который сует свой нос во все дела съемочного процесса. Новоиспеченный босс узнает много нового о том, что происходит за фасадом студии. Он понимает, что бизнес и последнюю картину "Секс и Сатана", на которую сделана главная ставка в этой игре, можно спасти только при помощи сомнительной пары союзников в лице циничного, любящего выпить, но доброго продюсера Дуга Куинтэйна и Лестер Плам - сексуальной кинодублерши многих Голливудских кинозвезд...
Slave Ship
Director
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Love Is News
Director
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Professional Soldier
Director
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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.
China Seas
Director
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
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.
Путешествие в одну сторону
Director
На борту круизного лайнера из Гонконга в Сан-Франциско зарождается любовь между пойманным преступником, которого под конвоем везут в тюрьму Сан-Квентин, где его должны казнить, и неизлечимо больной пассажиркой.
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.
Long Pants
Writer
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
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.