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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.
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10 July 1945
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.
29 August 1931
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
17 August 1939
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.
14 September 1935
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.
21 June 1935
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
12 November 1942
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.
18 April 1940
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.
17 September 1940
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging.
07 October 1938
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.
02 October 1937
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
31 December 1929
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.
28 November 1936
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore.
14 April 1935
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.
20 December 1937
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
24 July 1940
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.
29 July 1943
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off.
20 October 1934
Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.
01 October 1927
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.
09 July 1937
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.
20 May 1940
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
19 April 1930
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
20 February 1937
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.
17 November 1940
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.
14 December 1934
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.
10 July 1928
A hilarious musical short starring character actor John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight and his little piano, 1928.
14 November 1936
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
15 July 1938
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
17 March 1939
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.
23 September 1933
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
31 May 1935
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
16 October 1939
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
05 January 1929
Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries.
16 September 1946
Interpreted by Col. Tim McCoy. Talks about Indian Sign Language. A chief signs a story and a white soldier interprets.
22 August 1930
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
03 October 1939
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.
13 July 1939
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.
01 December 1929
Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, Johnny Marvin, Rosemarie Sinnott, The Locust Sisters, and Harry Rose.
31 January 1940
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
14 October 1932
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
05 August 1937
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
09 November 1935
In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
12 July 1941
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.
31 October 1930
Spanish Version of MGM's "Mr. Wu"
03 October 1938
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.
19 January 1925
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
11 May 1929
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.
21 September 1929
Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Van and Schenck, The Capitolians, Grace Rogers, and Harry Rose.
11 March 1930
Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, The Ponce Sisters, Joseph Regan, Ella Shields, and Jack Pepper.
16 April 1942
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.
05 August 1936
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
14 January 1930
Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Frances White, The Ponce Sisters, The Reynold Sisters, Joseph Regan, and Jack Pepper.
29 March 1934
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.
27 December 1938
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.
31 March 1939
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.
25 March 1932
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
15 December 1934
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
01 January 1936
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.
03 February 1927
A short film starring Van and Schenck.
15 November 1930
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
24 July 1936
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for.
