 Bad Company 1931  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Helen Twelvetrees, John Garrick, Paul Hurst, Frank Conroy, Frank McHugh, Edgar Kennedy, Kenneth Thomson, Emma Dunn, William V. Mong, Harry Carey, Arthur Stone, Wade Boteler, Jack Mower, Harry Semels
Mobster Goldie Gorio (Ricardo Cortez) wants to get the scoop on rival Markham King's (Frank Conroy) operation. So, why not have his lawyer Steve Carlyle (John Garrick) marry Markham's sister Helen (Helen Twelvetrees)? Gorio treats them to a lavish wedding and other extravagances. It isn't until Steve is wounded in a police raid that Helen realizes that he is a gangster, and now she stops at nothing to release him from his ties to the gang so that they can escape from the criminal world.
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Bataan 1943  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnaz, Barry Nelson, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, Alex Havier, Bud Geary
This is one of the great World War II films. It relates the saga of U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his rear guard soldiers as they protect General Douglas MacArthur's army during the retreat down a peninsula on Bataan. They face certain death while delaying the advancing Japanese troops in pursuit of MacArthur but are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their country.
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The Black Knight 1954  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Peter Cushing, Harry Andrews, Andre Morell, Laurence Naismith, Anthony Bushell, Patrick Troughton, Ronald Adam, Bill Brandon
A young sword maker, the Black Knight (Alan Ladd), protects King Arthur (Anthony Bushell) from those who are plotting his demise. 2 User Reviews
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| | rating | norman5615 06/25/2007 | | i rate this film top honours,i want to buy it but cannot get it,its superb. |
| | why is nobody selling | braggard 06/12/2007 | | this film is exellent ,to see acting at its best . |
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Cause for Alarm 1951 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore, Brad Morrow, Irving Bacon, Georgia Backus, Don Haggerty, Art Baker, Richard Anderson, Kathleen Freeman, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Suffering from both physical and mental ills, George Z. Jones (Barry Sullivan) writes a letter to the district attorney telling about his wife Ellen's (Loretta Young) supposed plans to murder him. After Ellen mails the letter, George tells her what it contained, and in the heat of the moment George drops dead. Now, Ellen must find a way to get the incriminating letter before it arrives at the D.A.'s office.
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Cheers for Miss Bishop 1941 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Martha Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Gargan, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer, Dorothy Peterson, Mary Anderson, Donald Douglas, Marsha Hunt, John Archer, Rosemary DeCamp, John Arledge, Jack Mulhall
Although she has missed chances for true love, Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) has devoted her life to her profession as a teacher in the Midwest and has inspired many of her students. Now, after 50 years of teaching, her successful students return to honor Miss Bishop.
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China Seas 1935 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Akim Tamiroff, Hattie McDaniel, Dudley Digges
Chinese riverboat Captain Al Gaskell (Clark Gable) has his hands full with pirates as well as China Doll (Jean Harlow) and Sybil (Rosalind Russell).
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1949 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field, Henry Wilcoxon, Alan Napier, Richard Webb, Joseph Vitale
Hank Martin (Bing Crosby) gets knocked out and travels back in time–to Camelot–in this rendition of a Mark Twain story.
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The Cross of Lorraine 1943 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert, Donald Curtis
Surrendering to the Nazis under the false illusion of being sent home, Paul (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Victor (Gene Kelly) suffer the brutality of concentration camp life–especially at the hands of Sergeant Berger (Peter Lorre). Useful war propaganda.
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Eternally Yours 1939  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Walburn, Zasu Pitts, Broderick Crawford, Virginia Field, Eve Arden, Ralph Graves, Lionel Pape
Anita (Loretta Young) looks forward to a comfortable life when she marries wealthy, stable Don (Broderick Crawford). But when she meets a magician, "The Great Arturo" (David Niven), she falls in love with him, the two marry, and they head out on his travels around the world. Despite her new adventures, she yearns for home, and–after several years of traveling with the flirtatious magician–she decides to leave him and return to the simple life.
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The Fireball 1950 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe, Milburn Stone, Ralph Dumke, Sam Flint, Glenn Corbett
Johnny Cesar (Mickey Rooney) lived in a Catholic orphanage, headed by Father O'Hara (Pat O'Brien), until he ran away. Now, he is a roller derby star but is stricken with polio and is about to learn even more about life.
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Love Is News 1937 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville, Dudley Digges, Walter Catlett, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Stepin Fetchit, Elisha Cook Jr., Pauline Moore, Edwin Maxwell, Charles Williams, Julius Tannen, Frank Conroy
Steve Layton (Tyrone Power) is a tenacious reporter who writes a story about an heiress, Tony Gateson (Loretta Young), after tricking her into an interview. Tony is upset when she reads his article and sets out to get even. First, she announces their engagement to put Steve in the spotlight and see how it feels. And more misadventures ensue in their love/hate relationship. This film was remade as "That Wonderful Urge," also starring Tyrone Power.
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Mrs. Parkington 1944 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Agnes Moorehead, Selena Royle, Gladys Cooper, Lee Patrick, Rod Cameron, Hans Conried
MGM teamed up that "perfect" couple, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, in this family saga of a wealthy New York family: the Parkingtons. Garson received her fifth Academy Award nomination for her role of a hotel maid who marries an oil man and takes her place in the elite New York society.
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My Favorite Spy 1942 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong, Helen Westley, William Demarest, Una O'Connor, Moroni Olsen, George Cleveland, M.A. Bogue
In a comedy of errors, Kay Kyser is recruited by the army to help in espionage work. Comedian great Harold Lloyd was the producer.
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One Minute to Zero 1952 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw, Margaret Sheridan, Richard Egan, Eduard Franz, Robert Osterloh, Robert Gist, Roy Roberts
Colonel Steve Janowski (Robert Mitchum) is overseeing the evacuation of Americans from Korea when he falls in love with United Nations worker Linda Day (Ann Blyth).
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One Way Passage 1932 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Kay Francis, William Powell, Aline MacMahon, Warren Hymer, Frank McHugh, Herbert Mundin, Frederick Burton, Douglas Gerrard, Roscoe Karns, Dewey Robinson
A dying socialite (Kay Francis) finds love in the person of a condemned convict (William Powell) while both are passengers on an ocean liner. Remade in 1940 as "Til We Meet Again."
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The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed, Jeff York, Morris Ankrum, Wally Cassell, Byron Foulger, Dick Crockett, Betty Blythe, Joel Friedkin
Cora (Lana Turner) falls for drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) who her husband Nick (Cecil Kellaway) has hired to work as a handyman at his gas station/diner. If Frank and Cora are to live "happily ever after," they need money. Their solution: murder Nick and collect on his insurance. They try to kill Nick. But, they fail, and now District Attorney Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames) is determined to get to the bottom of what really went on the night Nick was "accidentally"–but not fatally– electrocuted in his bathtub.
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S.O.S. Iceberg 1933 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Max Holzboer, Walter Riml, Ernst Udet, Nakinak
Based on an actual ill-fated expedition–with two survivors of the expedition party as advisers–this film follows the journey to Greenland in search of lost records, and the party becomes stranded on an iceberg. The leader's (Rod la Rocque) wife (Leni Riefenstahl) is a pilot who comes to the rescue, but her plane crashes on landing, and she joins the expedition. Eventually, a group of Eskimos arrives by kayak, along with pilot Ernst Udet, to save their lives.
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Seven Sinners 1940 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker, Billy Gilbert, Oskar Homolka, Anna Lee, Samuel S. Hinds, Reginald Denny
Bruce (John Wayne) is a young Naval officer who, along with Dr. Martin (Albert Dekker), fights for the love of Bijou (Marlene Dietrich), a young cafe singer in the South Pacific.
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Slave Ship 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Joseph Schildkraut, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell
It's adventure on the high seas as Captain Lovett (Warner Baxter) wants to get out of the slave trade, get rid of the crew, and start over in respectable shipping. But–the crew won't have anything to do with that idea, and the rebellion is underway.
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Slightly Honorable 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Broderick Crawford, Edward Arnold, Ruth Terry, Alan Dinehart, Claire Dodd, Bernard Nedell, Eve Arden, Douglass Dumbrille, Phyllis Brooks, Douglas Fowley, Ernest Truex
Corrupt politician Russ Sampson (Edward Arnold) frames lawyer John Webb (Pat O'Brien) for the murder of a woman involved in a scandal. Webb and law partner Russ (Broderick Crawford) set out to find the real murderer.
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Stand-In 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, C. Henry Gordon, Jack Carson, Tully Marshall, J.C. Nugent, William V. Mong, Olin Howland
In this satire, Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) goes to Hollywood with a mission–to save a studio.
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A Terrible Beauty 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Night Fighters
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy, Cyril Cusack, Richard Harris, Marianne Benet, Niall MacGinnis, Harry Brogan, T.P. McKenna, Christopher Rhodes
This film involves a behind-the-scenes look at recruiting and sabotage efforts of the Irish Republican Army.
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Trade Winds 1938 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Elliott, Joyce Compton, Phyllis Barry, Dorothy Tree
Smooth ladies' man, detective Sam Wye (Fredric March), and his sidekick, Ben (Ralph Bellamy), chase murder suspect Kay (Joan Bennett) throughout Asia, and Sam falls in love with her in the process. When he catches up with her, he helps establish her innocence. Good performances throughout, especially Joan Bennett and Ann Sothern.
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The Valley of Decision 1945 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, Dan Duryea, Jessica Tandy, Dean Stockwell
Although he is responsible for the deaths of her father and brother, Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson) works as a maid for Paul Scott's (Gregory Peck) wealthy family and falls in love with him.
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| 1. Bad Company (1931)
2. Bataan (1943)
3. The Black Knight (1954)
4. Cause for Alarm (1951)
5. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
6. China Seas (1935)
7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
8. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
9. Eternally Yours (1939)
10. The Fireball (1950)
11. Love Is News (1937)
12. Mrs. Parkington (1944)
13. My Favorite Spy (1942)
14. One Minute to Zero (1952)
15. One Way Passage (1932)
16. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
17. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
18. Seven Sinners (1940)
19. Slave Ship (1937)
20. Slightly Honorable (1940)
21. Stand-In (1937)
22. A Terrible Beauty (1960)
aka: Night Fighters
23. Trade Winds (1938)
24. The Valley of Decision (1945)
25. Wild Harvest (1947)
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