Oliver H.P. Garrett

Writing

Oliver H.P. Garrett

Born — Died

1894-05-06 — 1952-02-22

Place of birth

New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Dead Reckoning poster
6.9

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.

Dead Reckoning

1946

A Farewell to Arms poster
6.2

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

A Farewell to Arms

1932

Manhattan Melodrama poster
7.0

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

Night Nurse poster
6.8

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

Night Nurse

1931

The Story of Temple Drake poster
6.5

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

The Story of Temple Drake

1933

City Streets poster
6.3

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

City Streets

1931

She Couldn't Take It poster
5.3

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

She Couldn't Take It

1935

If I Had a Million poster
6.5

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

If I Had a Million

1932

Night Flight poster
5.6

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Night Flight

1933

Flight for Freedom poster
5.8

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.

Flight for Freedom

1943

One Third of a Nation poster
6.2

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

One Third of a Nation

1939

The Man I Married poster
6.3

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

The Man I Married

1940

The World and the Flesh poster
7.7

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.

The World and the Flesh

1932

Sealed Cargo poster
6.5

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.

Sealed Cargo

1951

For the Defense poster
5.7

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.

For the Defense

1930

Ladies of the Mob poster
10.0

A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.

Ladies of the Mob

1928

The Man from Yesterday poster
5.2

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.

The Man from Yesterday

1932

The Vice Squad poster
6.8

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

The Vice Squad

1931

Three Faces East poster
5.4

During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.

Three Faces East

1930

Careful, Soft Shoulders poster
6.5

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.

Careful, Soft Shoulders

1942

Careful, Soft Shoulders poster
6.5

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.

Careful, Soft Shoulders

1942

One Way Ticket poster
6.0

A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.

One Way Ticket

1935