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Nick Grindé

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Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

12-01-1893

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Nicholas Grinde, Nick Grinde

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Injun Talk

Injun Talk

Interpreted by Col. Tim McCoy. Talks about Indian Sign Language. A chief signs a story and a white soldier interprets.
0.0

Year:

1946

Road to Alcatraz

Road to Alcatraz

The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.
0.0

Year:

1945

We've Never Been Licked

We've Never Been Licked

Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
0.0

Year:

1943

Hitler- Dead or Alive

Hitler- Dead or Alive

A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
4.5

Year:

1942

The Girl from Alaska

The Girl from Alaska

A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
6.0

Year:

1942

Mountain Moonlight

Mountain Moonlight

A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
0.0

Year:

1941

Friendly Neighbors

Friendly Neighbors

The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
0.0

Year:

1940

Before I Hang

Before I Hang

Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
6.2

Year:

1940

Girls of the Road

Girls of the Road

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
5.0

Year:

1940

Men Without Souls

Men Without Souls

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
6.0

Year:

1940

The Man with Nine Lives

The Man with Nine Lives

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
6.2

Year:

1940

Convicted Woman

Convicted Woman

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
3.7

Year:

1940

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
0.0

Year:

1939

A Woman is the Judge

A Woman is the Judge

Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
0.0

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1939

The Man They Could Not Hang

The Man They Could Not Hang

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
6.6

Year:

1939

Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
5.0

Year:

1939

Sudden Money

Sudden Money

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
5.0

Year:

1939

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
5.8

Year:

1939

Federal Man-Hunt

Federal Man-Hunt

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
6.2

Year:

1938

Down in 'Arkansaw'

Down in 'Arkansaw'

A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their river.
5.0

Year:

1938

Mis dos amores

Mis dos amores

Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
0.0

Year:

1938

Delinquent Parents

Delinquent Parents

A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
8.0

Year:

1938

Exiled to Shanghai

Exiled to Shanghai

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
4.9

Year:

1937

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
5.0

Year:

1937

White Bondage

White Bondage

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
6.0

Year:

1937

Public Wedding

Public Wedding

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
5.7

Year:

1937

Under Southern Stars

Under Southern Stars

Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
0.0

Year:

1937

Fugitive in the Sky

Fugitive in the Sky

Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
6.0

Year:

1936

The Captain's Kid

The Captain's Kid

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
6.0

Year:

1936

Jailbreak

Jailbreak

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
6.4

Year:

1936

Public Enemy's Wife

Public Enemy's Wife

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
5.8

Year:

1936

Lucky Fugitives

Lucky Fugitives

Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.
0.0

Year:

1936

The Great American Pie Company

The Great American Pie Company

In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
7.5

Year:

1935

How to Sleep

How to Sleep

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac.
6.4

Year:

1935

Ladies Crave Excitement

Ladies Crave Excitement

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
4.5

Year:

1935

Border Brigands

Border Brigands

Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
0.0

Year:

1935

Stone of Silver Creek

Stone of Silver Creek

In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
0.0

Year:

1935

Bum Voyage

Bum Voyage

The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
6.0

Year:

1934

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
6.4

Year:

1934

The Ballad of Paducah Jail

The Ballad of Paducah Jail

Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.
0.0

Year:

1934

No More West

No More West

Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
0.0

Year:

1934

Menu

Menu

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
5.2

Year:

1933

Vanity Street

Vanity Street

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
6.8

Year:

1932

Shopworn

Shopworn

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
6.5

Year:

1932

This Modern Age

This Modern Age

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
6.0

Year:

1931

The Devil's Cabaret

The Devil's Cabaret

At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns, the task of getting more people to his domain. In front of a nightclub, Mr. Burns invites a crowd of people to come inside to The Devil's Cabaret to be entertained. After they enjoy songs and dancing, the people go willingly to Hades.
5.2

Year:

1930

Remote Control

Remote Control

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
4.7

Year:

1930

Wu Li Chang

Wu Li Chang

Spanish Version of MGM's "Mr. Wu"
0.0

Year:

1930

Good News

Good News

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
5.0

Year:

1930

The Divorcee

The Divorcee

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
6.3

Year:

1930

Metro Movietone Revue #4

Metro Movietone Revue #4

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, The Ponce Sisters, Joseph Regan, Ella Shields, and Jack Pepper.
1.0

Year:

1930

Metro Movietone Revue #3

Metro Movietone Revue #3

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Frances White, The Ponce Sisters, The Reynold Sisters, Joseph Regan, and Jack Pepper.
1.0

Year:

1930

The Bishop Murder Case

The Bishop Murder Case

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
5.2

Year:

1929

Metro Movietone Revue #2

Metro Movietone Revue #2

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, Johnny Marvin, Rosemarie Sinnott, The Locust Sisters, and Harry Rose.
1.0

Year:

1929

Metro Movietone Revue #1

Metro Movietone Revue #1

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Van and Schenck, The Capitolians, Grace Rogers, and Harry Rose.
1.0

Year:

1929

The Desert Rider

The Desert Rider

Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears with the prospector's gold. A young woman also searches the killer for motives of her own.
0.0

Year:

1929

Morgan's Last Raid

Morgan's Last Raid

Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
0.0

Year:

1929

Beyond the Sierras

Beyond the Sierras

A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.
0.0

Year:

1928

Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano

Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano

A hilarious musical short starring character actor John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight and his little piano, 1928. Knight was known for playing sidekicks in 1930s and '40s "B" westerns.
2.0

Year:

1928

Body and Soul

Body and Soul

A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.
0.0

Year:

1927

Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland

Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland

A short film starring Van and Schenck.
0.0

Year:

1927

Excuse Me

Excuse Me

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
0.0

Year:

1925