Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Tay Garnett
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1. One Way Passage (1932)
Unrated | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Writers: Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson, Robert Lord | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon
2. Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
106 min | Documentary, History
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."
Writers: Prosper Buranelli, W.P. Lipscomb | Directors: Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson | Stars: Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz, Claude Dauphin
3. Since You Went Away (1944)
Approved | 177 min | Drama, Romance, War
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and ... See full summary »
Writers: Margaret Buell Wilder, David O. Selznick | Directors: John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
4. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.
Writers: Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch, James M. Cain | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
5. The Valley of Decision (1945)
Passed | 119 min | Drama
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the ... See full summary »
Writers: John Meehan, Sonya Levien, Marcia Davenport | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore
6. Love Is News (1937)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Financier's daughter spars with newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
Writers: Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen, William R. Lipman, Frederick Stephani | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville
7. Her Man (1930)
85 min | Drama
Paris bargirl with tough "protector" falls for young sailor.
Writers: Tom Buckingham, Tay Garnett, Howard Higgin | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason
8. The Spieler (1928)
62 min | Crime
Writers: Hal Conklin, Tay Garnett, John W. Krafft | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Alan Hale, Clyde Cook, Renée Adorée, Fred Kohler
9. China Seas (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Drama, Adventure
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship.
Writers: Jules Furthman, James Kevin McGuinness, Crosbie Garstin | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
10. Bataan (1943)
Approved | 114 min | War
Japan has just invaded the Phillipines and the US Army attempts a desperate defence. Thirteen men are chosen to blow up a bridge on the Bataan peninsula and keep the Japanese from ... See full summary »
Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell
11. Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Passed | 124 min | Drama, Romance
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus ... See full summary »
Writers: Robert Thoeren, Polly James, Louis Bromfield | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead
12. Okay, America! (1932)
78 min | Drama
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Writer: William Anthony McGuire | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Calhern, Edward Arnold
13. Seven Sinners (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for inciting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very... See full summary »
Writers: John Meehan, Harry Tugend, Ladislas Fodor, László Vadnay | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
14. Stand-In (1937)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A former child star falls in love with a stuffy accountant, who wants to learn why his firm's movie studio is losing money.
Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland, Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Alan Mowbray
15. Destination Unknown (1933)
66 min | Drama
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Writer: Tom Buckingham | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale, Russell Hopton
16. The Racket (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things... See full summary »
Writers: William Wister Haines, W.R. Burnett, Bartlett Cormack | Directors: John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, Tay Garnett, Nicholas Ray, Sherman Todd | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman
17. Slave Ship (1937)
Passed | 92 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he ... See full summary »
Writers: Sam Hellman, Lamar Trotti, Gladys Lehman, William Faulkner, George S. King | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney
18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Writers: Mark Twain, Edmund Beloin | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix
19. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Drama
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Writers: Bess Streeter Aldrich, Stephen Vincent Benet, Adelaide Heilbron, Sheridan Gibney | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway
20. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
77 min | Adventure, Drama
Writers: Arnold Fanck, Edwin H. Knopf, Tom Reed | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland
21. Professional Soldier (1935)
75 min | Adventure
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.
Writers: Gene Fowler, Damon Runyon, Howard Ellis Smith | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Constance Collier
22. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Approved | 90 min | War, Drama
A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by Nazis troops and sent to a military prison. There they will have to make use of his best resources to keep alive... and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.
Writers: Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr., Alexander Esway, Robert Hardy Andrews, Lilo Dammert, Robert Aisner, Hans Habe | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf
23. Wild Harvest (1947)
Passed | 92 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Writers: Houston Branch, John Monks Jr. | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lloyd Nolan
24. She Couldn't Take It (1935)
77 min | Comedy
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered, bubble-headed wife has a fondness for ... See full summary »
Writers: C. Graham Baker, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gene Towne | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke
25. Challenge to Be Free (1975)
G | 88 min | Adventure, Family
Challenge To Be Free captures the excitement of a marathon manhunt through 1,000 miles of the most rugged and beautiful terrain in the Alaskan Wilderness.
Writers: Anne Bosworth, Chuck D. Keen, Dick North | Directors: Tay Garnett, Ford Beebe Jr. | Stars: Mike Mazurki, Vic Christy, Fritz Ford, Jimmy Kane
26. Joy of Living (1938)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time.
Writers: Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, Allan Scott, Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee
27. Trade Winds (1938)
93 min | Drama
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing ... See full summary »
Writers: Tay Garnett, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Frank R. Adams | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern
28. Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Unrated | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mr. Jones is a invalid husband who wrongly thinks his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
Writers: Mel Dinelli, Tom Lewis, Lawrence B. Marcus | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore
29. Bad Company (1931)
76 min | Drama
Writers: Jack Lait, Tom Buckingham, Tay Garnett | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, John Garrick, Paul Hurst
30. The Flying Fool (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Writers: Elliott J. Clawson, Tay Garnett, James Gleason | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Boyd, Marie Prevost, Tom O'Brien, Russell Gleason
31. Slightly Honorable (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Writers: Ken Englund, John Hunter Lay, Robert Tallman, F.G. Presnell | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry
32. My Favorite Spy (1942)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
Writers: M. Coates Webster, Sig Herzig, William Bowers | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong
33. The Night Fighters (1960)
90 min | War, Drama, Action
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil (Robert Mitchum) finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
Writers: R. Wright Campbell, Arthur Roth | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy
34. The Fireball (1950)
84 min | Drama
Johnny runs away from Father O'Hara's orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. He becomes involved with women, including Polly, who only love him because he... See full summary »
Writers: Tay Garnett, Horace McCoy | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown
35. Soldiers Three (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Retired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s.
Writers: Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Marjory Gaffney, Sidney Gilliat, Michael Hogan, Grover Jones, Rudyard Kipling, Vincent Lawrence, L. du Garde Peach, Tom Reed, Marguerite Roberts | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton
36. One Minute to Zero (1952)
Approved | 105 min | War, Drama
During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training the South Korean army and he's tasked with evacuating American civilians from the war zone.
Writers: William Wister Haines, Milton Krims | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw
37. Eternally Yours (1939)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.
Writers: Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke
38. Cattle King (1963)
Approved | 88 min | Western
Writer: Thomas Thompson | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, Robert Loggia, Joan Caulfield, Robert Middleton
39. Prestige (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Drama
A woman travels to a French penal colony in Indo China to be with her fiancée, the commander. She arrives to find that he is now an alcoholic.
Writers: Harry Hervey, Tay Garnett, Rollo Lloyd, Francis Edward Faragoh | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Ann Harding, Adolphe Menjou, Melvyn Douglas, Ian Maclaren
40. Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Approved | 103 min | Music, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Writers: Samson Raphaelson, Robert E. Sherwood | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Tommy Morton, Mary Murphy, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Shriner
41. Timber Tramps (1975)
PG | 98 min | Adventure
Claude Akins plays a tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman, who likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Writer: Chuck D. Keen | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Claude Akins, Leon Ames, Eve Brent, Stanley Clements
42. Oh, Yeah? (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
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... See full summary »
Writers: A.W. Somerville, Tay Garnett, James Gleason | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Patricia Caron, Zasu Pitts
43. The Black Knight (1954)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure
As a blacksmith John can't hope to win the hand of Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonil. Off he goes to prove himself a noble knight. He makes himself a suit of armor with a winged chicken... See full summary »
Writers: Alec Coppel, Dennis O'Keefe, Bryan Forbes | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews
44. Officer O'Brien (1930)
72 min | Crime, Comedy, Drama
Writer: Tom Buckingham | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian, Ralf Harolde
45. The Delta Factor (1970)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Kim Stacy and Morgan are two CIA Agents on a secret mission to rescue a scientist imprisoned by terrorists on a remote island.
Writer: Tay Garnett | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Yvette Mimieux, Christopher George, Diane McBain, Ralph Taeger
46. Celebrity (1928)
70 min
Writers: Elliott J. Clawson, George Dromgold, Tay Garnett, Willard Keefe, John W. Krafft | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Clyde Cook, Lina Basquette, Dot Farley