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Garnett, Tay

Working name of US film director and author William Taylor Garnett (1884-1977), whose Lost Race novel, Man Laughs Back (1935), is set deep in the South American jungle, where a native civilization, descended from the Incas, is instrumental in keeping a foolhardy surveyor (and his team of twenty-six lads) from disaster. As a director, he is best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); of sf interest is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1948), based on Mark Twain's novel. [JC]

William Taylor Garnett

born Los Angeles, California: 13 June 1884

died Sawtelle, California: 3 October 1977

works

• Man Laughs Back (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935) [hb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Internet Movie Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 04:43 am on 21 March 2023.
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