Nick Grinde's career lasted from the late 1920s to the mid-'40s, but his heyday was the mid to late 1930s. Grinde was one of the journeyman directors who made the "B" pictures that everybody enjoyed at a Saturday matinée, but whose name no one would recognize. While none of Grinde's pictures were particularly memorable, they encompassed all genres, from horror to musicals to comedies and even a western or two, but he was especially adept at crime and action dramas--he turned out a number of tight, fast-moving little pictures of that type for Warner Bros.
