Movies by Tay Garnett
As a director:
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The Timber Tramps (1975)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tab Hunter, Leon Ames …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Chuck D. Keen
Matt (Claude Akins) is a tough lumberjack who roams Alaska for work with his partner Deacon (Leon Ames). When these "timber tramps" finally find a gig, it's at a logging camp run by…
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Cause for Alarm (1951)
Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Academy Award winning actress Loretta Young stars in the 1951 movie Cause for Alarm, a taut suspense drama in which a wife is framed by her husband for his suspected murder. Loretta Young…
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Joan Fontaine …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Billy Wilder
Johnny Burke "musicalizes" Mark Twain's classic story, with Bing Crosby as a mechanic who gets transported into the past and ends up a wisecracking wizard in King Arthur's court. In…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
The sexual chemistry between Depression-era drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) and sexy, smoldering roadside café waitress Cora (Lana Turner) is so hot that they'll do anything…
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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Cast: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
This nostalgic drama follows the life and career of Miss Ella Bishop (Martha Scott), a beloved Midwestern University teacher whose former students gather to pay tribute to her at a retirement…
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Slightly Honorable (1940)
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Greed, graft and corruption foul the big city in director Tay Garnett's uproarious, slapstick murder mystery (which percolates with sexual innuendo and finely etched performances).…
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Seven Sinners / The Shepherd of the Hills (1940)
Cast: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Dekker …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Henry Hathaway
John Wayne learns to listen to his conscience in this 1940s double feature. Seven Sinners stars Wayne as a Navy officer smitten with a rabble-rousing chanteuse (Marlene Dietrich) who may be…
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Eternally Yours (1939)
Cast: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Lovely Anita Halstead (Loretta Young) impetuously dumps her wealthy, stable fiancé (Broderick Crawford) after meeting a suave magician named the Great Arturo (David Niven). Before you…
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That Wonderful Urge / Love Is News (1937)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Robert B. Sinclair
Tyrone Power stars in two versions of the same romantic comedy -- 1937's Love Is News, and the 1948 remake, That Wonderful Urge -- as a journalist who earns his dough by reporting on the…
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China Seas (1935)
Cast: Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
With his past and present paramours aboard and a hold full of gold, Capt. Adam Gaskell (Clark Gable) -- the skipper of a steamer bound for Hong Kong -- has his hands full in this high-seas…
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One Way Passage (1932)
Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon …
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Terminally ill Joan Ames (Kay Francis) is determined to make the most of her final days in this touching drama, which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. On a long sea voyage, she…