Directing

Otis Garrett

Born — Died

1905-03-29 — 1941-03-24

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Lady in the Morgue poster
7.0

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

The Lady in the Morgue

1938

Mystery of the White Room poster
9.0

A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

Mystery of the White Room

1939

Danger on the Air poster
6.4

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.

Danger on the Air

1938

O'Shaughnessy's Boy poster
6.2

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

1935

Exile Express poster
7.0

When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being deported via a train full of criminal aliens, g-men, reporters - and foreign agents trying to smuggle her off and into the hands of the murderous gang.

Exile Express

1939

The Black Doll poster
6.4

Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...

The Black Doll

1938

Age of Indiscretion poster
4.9

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.

Age of Indiscretion

1935

Personal Secretary poster
8.0

Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Personal Secretary

1938

Margie poster
9.0

Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).

Margie

1940

Sandy Gets Her Man poster
6.5

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.

Sandy Gets Her Man

1940

World Premiere poster
6.0

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!

World Premiere

1941

The Last Express poster
4.0

A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.

The Last Express

1938

The Witness Vanishes poster
7.0

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.

The Witness Vanishes

1939