Direction: Nick Grinde
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Nick Grinde. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Boris Karloff · Lorna Gray · Robert Wilcox · Roger Pryo
6.4
88 votes
6.4
88 votes
The Man with Nine Lives
1940 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Boris Karloff · Roger Pryo · Jo Ann Sayers · Stanley Brown
Plot 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...
6.1
41 votes
6.1
41 votes
Before I Hang
1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Boris Karloff · Evelyn Keyes · Bruce Bennett · Edward Van Sloan
Plot A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon,...
5.9
41 votes
5.9
41 votes
How to Sleep (S)
1935 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Robert Benchley
Plot 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...
5.7
41 votes
5.7
41 votes
Shopworn
1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Regis Toomey · ZaSu Pitts · Lucien Littlefield
Plot A poor but honest and hardworking waitress from way across the tracks meets and falls in love with a college student from the upper-stuffy class, but the Mama of the...
5.6
24 votes
5.6
24 votes
Hitler – Dead or Alive
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Ward Bond · Dorothy Tree · Warren Hymer · Paul Fix
Plot The plot of this film was in fact inspired by true events. During the early stages of the Second World War a prominent American businessman offered one million dollars reward...
4.2
51 votes
4.2
51 votes
Sudden Money
1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Charles Ruggles · Marjorie Rambeau · Charley Grapewin · Broderick Crawford
Plot Winning a $150,000 prize in a sweepstakes gives the Patterson family grand plans. Particularly head of the family Sweeney, a frustrated drummer who decides to start up his own band....
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Public Enemy's Wife
1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Pat O'Brien · Margaret Lindsay · Robert Armstrong · Cesar Romero
Plot Romero is good as mobster serving life whose insane jealousy over wife (Lindsay) makes her a perfect pawn for G-Man O'Brien.
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The Bishop Murder Case
1930 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction David Burton · Nick Grinde
Cast Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · Roland Young · Alec B. Francis
Plot 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...
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Love Is on the Air
1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Ronald Reagan · June Travis · Eddie Acuff · Ben Welden
Plot Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E....
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Scandal Sheet
1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Otto Kruger · Ona Munson · Edward Norris · John Dilson
Plot A paper proprietor is blackmailed about his illegitimate son, whom he employed as a reporter. He accidentally kills the blackmailer and is condemned for murder rather than involve the boy.
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Good News
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Mary Lawlor · Stanley Smith · Bessie Love · Cliff Edwards
Plot Tom Marlowe is the star of his college football team, and has a promising romance with a female college student, Connie Lane. He does not excel, however, in his college...
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A Woman Is the Judge
1939 · Movie · 161 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Frieda Inescort · Otto Kruger · Rochelle Hudson · Mayo Methot
Plot A famous woman jurist at the peak of her career resigns the bench to defend her daughter against a murder charge.
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White Bondage
1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Jean Muir · Gordon Oliver · Howard Phillips · Joe King
Plot In the Depression era American South, impoverished, oppressed sharecroppers band together to fight the corrupt and abusive bosses who rule over the cotton farming community.
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Remote Control
1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde · Malcolm St. Clair
Cast William Haines · Charles King · Mary Doran · John Miljan
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Menu (S)
1933 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Pete Smith · Luis Alberni · Una Merkel · Franklin Pangborn
Plot A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
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The Devil's Cabaret (S)
1930 · Movie · 16 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Edward Buzzell · Charles Middleton · Mary Carlisle · Nelson McDowell
Plot 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...
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Exiled to Shanghai
1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Wallace Ford · June Travis · Dean Jagger · William Bakewell
Plot Two rival newspaper men battle over a beautiful woman while covering an overseas civil war.
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Million Dollar Legs
1939 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde · Edward Dmytryk
Cast Betty Grable · John Hartley · Donald O´Connor · Jackie Coogan
Plot 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...
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Federal Man-Hunt
1938 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Robert Livingston · June Travis · John Gallaudet · Charles Halton
Plot 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...
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