Nicholas T. Barrows

Movies

That's My Baby!
Writer
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton Payne. In addition, Betty's dad, Phineas Moody suffers from severe melancholy; and an emergency cure of laughter is required to save his health.
I'm from the City
Screenplay
Pete Pepper (Joe Penner) is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch (Richard Lane). Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
Delinquent Parents
Screenplay
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Dangerous Holiday
Screenplay
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Dangerous Holiday
Director
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Gridiron Flash
Story
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
The Gold Ghost
Story
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
Million Dollar Legs
Writer
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Doctor's Orders
Story
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
Selling Shorts
Scenario Writer
Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....
Selling Shorts
Story
Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....
The Night Bird
Writer
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Vacation Waves
Director
The Burglar
Writer
A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score.
His Unlucky Night
Writer
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
Behind the Counter
Story
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
The Swim Princess
Scenario Writer
The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.
Feel My Pulse
Writer
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Dad's Choice
Writer
Find the King
Writer
No Publicity
Director
Good Morning, Judge
Director
Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.
On Their Way
Director
Eddie Boland & Ethel Broadhurst on a road trip encountering gypsies.
Prince Pistachio
Director
Boland plays a slipshod plumber on roller skates who, trying to fix some pipes, blows himself into a fantasy world where he is mistaken for a prince and everything is named after food items.
Whirl o' the West
Director
A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
Greek Meets Greek
Director
Eddie Boland is a scholar of Greek philosophy and is in his study when the butler interrupts him with a message. In the next room his sister (Ethel Broadhurst) has her friends over and are making a lot of noise. The professor flips and confronts them all and resorts to mocking them with "you dress like peacocks and dance like turkeys."