Garnett Weston - Turner Classic Movies

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Garnett Weston wrote a variety of screenplays throughout the duration of his career. Weston began his writing career for film with such titles as "Blackmail" (1929), "The Viking" (1931) and the Bela Lugosi horror film "White Zombie" (1932). He also appeared in the drama "Supernatural" (1933) with Carole Lombard. He continued his focus on film through the thirties, penning the scripts for...

Filmography

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The Great Train Robbery (1941)

Original Screenplay

Emergency Squad (1940)

The Crooked Road (1940)

Opened by Mistake (1940)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

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Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Say A Prayer For Me

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Foreign Horde Floods U.S.

Biography

Garnett Weston wrote a variety of screenplays throughout the duration of his career. Weston began his writing career for film with such titles as "Blackmail" (1929), "The Viking" (1931) and the Bela Lugosi horror film "White Zombie" (1932). He also appeared in the drama "Supernatural" (1933) with Carole Lombard. He continued his focus on film through the thirties, penning the scripts for "The Old-Fashioned Way" (1934) with W C Fields, the western "Nevada" (1935) with Buster Crabbe and "The Preview Murder Case" (1936). He also appeared in "Daughter of Shanghai" (1937). During the latter part of his career, Weston wrote "Partners in Crime" (1937), "Bulldog Drummond in Africa" (1938) and "Emergency Squad" (1940). He also appeared in "Opened By Mistake" (1940). Weston last wrote the Tyrone Power action flick "Pony Soldier" (1952).

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Great Train Robbery (1941)

Original Screenplay

Emergency Squad (1940)

The Crooked Road (1940)

Opened by Mistake (1940)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Daughter of Shanghai (1938)

Partners in Crime (1937)

The Mill On The Floss (1937)

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

The Ninth Guest (1934)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

It's a Gift (1934)

Robbers' Roost (1933)

Contract Writer

Supernatural (1933)

Story and Adapted

White Zombie (1932)

Blackmail (1929)

The Yankee Clipper (1927)

Life Events

Videos

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Say A Prayer For Me On the evening of the murder of her merchant father by human-smugglers in San Francisco, Anna May Wong as Lan Ying (title character) is supported by Chinese-American G-Man Lee (Philip Ahn), discussing the family friend who introduced them, and consoling a servant, in Daughter Of Shanghai, 1937.

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Foreign Horde Floods U.S. Splashy aerial action to start, bracketed with blaring headlines as Feds in a bi-plane intercept John Patterson (as pilot Lang) and Anthony Quinn (age 22, as sidekick Morgan) smuggling Chinese persons into San Francisco, in the Paramount programmer and Anna May Wong vehicle, Daughter Of Shanghai, 1937.

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Have A Look At You Deft enough work by Robert Florey directing for Paramount, as Anna May Wong (as Lan Ying, title character) has made her way to Central America hunting the head of the human-smuggling ring that killed her father back in San Francisco, inveigling Charles Bickford as the proprietor Hartman, Gino Corrado his interpreter, Evelyn Brent his dance wrangler, in Daughter Of Shanghai, 1937.

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If We Must Be Prosaic In San Francisco’s Chinatown we meet Cecil Cunningham as Mrs. Hunt, patron of merchant Quan Lin (Ching Wah Lee) and daughter Lan Ying (top-billed Anna May Wong), J . Carrol Naish and Buster Crabbe the intruding slave-racketeers, and Ernest Whitman the muscle Sam, in Daughter Of Shanghai, 1937.

Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Flying Squad Part of the prologue, from the shot-silent portion of the film, with sound effects added, many tricks from the director, John Longden the young cop and leading man introduced, from what is generally seen as the first British talkie, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, 1929.

Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Got A Real Criminal To Direct The director very much at play here, his cameo on the London underground, then protagonists Alice (Anny Ondra, voice by Joan Barry) and boyfriend policeman Frank (John Longden) feuding at tea, with witty insights about the pictures, in Alfred Hitchcok's first partial-talkie, Blackmail, 1929.

Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Better Go Polish-born Anny Ondra here as straying "Alice," is lip-synching to the off-camera voice of Joan Barry, Alfred Hitchcock directing his first talkie, quite deliberate with the shadow on the face of "the artist" Cyril Ritchard, who goes a bit too far for her, in Blackmail, 1929.

White Zombie (1932) -- (Movie Clip) They Work Faithfully Maybe the best sequence in the picture, revealing the sugar mill in Haiti, staffed by zombies and owned by “Murder Legendre” (Bela Lugosi), visited by neighbor Beaumont (Robert Frazer), who wants him to bewitch his lady guest, in the pre-code independent horror quickie White Zombie, 1932.

White Zombie (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Cheerful Introduction Opening by independent producer-director brothers Edward and Victor Halperin, Madeline and Neil (Madge Bellamy, John Harron) arrived in Haiti, their coachman (Clarence Muse) alert and “Murder Legendre” (Bela Lugosi) lurking, in White Zombie, 1932, often cited as the first "zombie" movie.

White Zombie (1932) -- (Movie Clip) What If They Regain Their Souls? Evil Hatian entrepreneur “Murder Legendre” (Bela Lugosi) at the cemetery with Beaumont (Robert Frazer), who’s paid him to bring back Madeline (Madge Bellamy), whom they had to kill, as a zombie, reviewing his own zombie posse en route, in White Zombie, 1932.

Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Knives Is Not Right We know that shopgirl Alice (Anny Ondra, voice by Joan Barry) is behind the stabbing that everyone's talking about, her mum and dad (Sara Allgood, Charles Paton) and especially the neighbor (Phyllis Monkman), Alfred Hitchcock having fun directing his first talking picture, Blackmail, 1929.

Viking, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Foreword Altogether stirring opening, a portion of Canadian Peer Sir Wilfred Grenfell's tribute to Varick Frissell and fellow film-makers killed in the making of The Viking, 1931.

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