Tay Garnett — Director (23)

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Fast Black (1924)
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"Hunky" Dorrey and "Dinky Dubbs are on the run from the cops. They consider getting a job. After one gets his face blackened from a car's exhaust, they see an ad for a "colored Pullman porter". Mistaken identity due to accidental blackface drives the remainder of the plot. The two wind up on a train, where they run into the police again.

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Bataan (1943)
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other title: Batán / 孤岛英魂 …
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.

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Officer O'Brien (1930)
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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.

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One Minute to Zero (1952)
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泰·加内特 actor: 罗伯特·米彻姆 / 安·布莱思 …
other title: Korea / Une minute avant l'heure …
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.

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血洒奴舟记 (1937)
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泰·加内特 actor: 沃纳·巴克斯特 / 华莱士·比里 …
other title: Slave Ship
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 finds the same old setup, including slave trade.

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Slave Ship (1937)
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Tay Garnett actor: 沃纳·巴克斯特 / 华莱士·比里 …
other title: 血洒奴舟记 / Das Sklavenschiff …
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 finds the same old setup, including slave trade.

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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
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泰·加内特 actor: 玛莎·斯考特 / 威廉·加甘 …
other title: 为毕晓普小姐干杯 / 空谷幽兰 …
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.

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Mrs. Parkington (1944)
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other title: 帕金顿夫人 / 三代同堂 …
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 Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.