Edmund Grainger

Nascimento : 1906-10-01, New York City, New York, USA

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edmund Grainger (1906–1981) was an American film producer. He produced more than sixty films during his career, and also occasionally worked as an assistant director. During the 1930s he was employed by Universal Pictures.

Filmes

Questão de Tempo
Producer
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
Cimarron: Jornada da Vida
Producer
O Oklahoma Land Run de abril de 1889 define o cenário para uma saga épica de um aventureiro de fronteira, sua esposa, sua família e seus amigos. A saga épica de uma família de fronteira, Cimarron começa com o Oklahoma Land Rush em 22 de abril de 1889. A família Cravet transforma seu jornal Oklahoma Wigwam em um império comercial e Yancey Cravet é o idealista aventureiro que, para a raiva de sua esposa, desperdiça a oportunidade de se tornar governador, pois isso significa ajudar a espoliar os nativos americanos de suas terras e recursos.
A Casa da Colina
Producer
História dramática de influente família Texana, os Hunnicutt, ambientada no final dos anos 50. O capitão Wade Hunnicutt é o cidadão mais rico e poderoso de sua cidade texana; Ele também é um notório mulherengo, que transformou sua esposa Hannah contra ele. Ela criou o filho Theron para ser dependente dela; mas quando ele atinge a idade adulta, Hunnicutt insiste em assumir sua educação, iniciando-o na caça e em outras atividades masculinas, sob o olhar atento de Rafe, o funcionário leal de Hunnicutt. Mas o novo estilo de vida de Theron o leva a um caso de amor com uma garota local e, daí, ao aprendizado de coisas sobre os pais que antes estavam escondidos dele. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Quando Explodem as Paixões
Producer
O Capitão Tom Reynolds e seu bando de agentes OSS especializados estão na Birmânia durante a WW2 para treinar os nativos Kachin em guerra moderna. Mas o combate de selva, especialmente contra um exército japonês tão familiarizado com o terreno como o de Kachin, é mais cansativa do que Reynolds imaginava. Um pouco de descanso é encontrado nos braços da bela Carla, mas depois que os rebeldes chineses atravessam a fronteira para roubar e assassinar soldados americanos, Reynolds abandona todas as noções de "protocolo militar" e sai em busca de vingança.
A Flor Que Não Morreu
Producer
Um jovem idealista venezuelano foge de sua terra natal para escapar de uma revolução. Na esperança de encontrar a paz, ele vai para as montanhas e as florestas da Amazônia. Lá ele encontra Rima, a Garota dos Pássaros, uma órfã vivendo uma vida natural. É tudo um romance admirável contando uma história de 'Busca, Amor e Violência'. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Torpedo!
Producer
Em 1942, o comandante do submarino USS Grayfish, Barney Doyle, é um capitão capaz, respeitado por seus homens e eficaz no mar. Seu alvo principal é o porta aviões japonês Akagi, que liderou o ataque a Pearl Harbor. Doyle é atormentado pelo fato de que sua esposa e filha foram presos quando os japoneses invadiram as Filipinas e ele não tem noticias deles por quase 10 meses. Ele fica aliviado quando fontes confiáveis ​​confirmam que eles estão vivos. Mas havia uma boa razão para os japoneses permitirem que ele soubesse que sua família estava a salvo. Todos os civis estão sendo transportados para o Japão no Akagi e portanto usados como um escudo humano, forçando Doyle a tomar uma decisão terrível.
O Irresistível Forasteiro
Producer
Jason Sweet, que ganhara um rebanho de ovelhas numa partida de pôquer, vai instalar-se numa região do Oeste exclusivamente vocacionada para a criação de gado bovino; região de onde os indesejados ovelheiros são sistematicamente corridos a tiro. Mas Jason é um homem que não se deixa intimidar. E vai lutar para impor os seus direitos; mesmo se estes se opõem às leis dos potentados locais e contrariam as tradições da terra, estabelecidas à revelia do mais elementar bom senso. Enquanto vai cuidando de sua vida, o criador de ovelhas empreende a conquista da rebelde Dell Payton, uma rica rancheira que acabará por sucumbir ao charme daquele valente e irresistível forasteiro.
Bundle of Joy
Producer
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Pelo Sangue de Nossos Irmãos
Producer
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Producer
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
The French Line
Producer
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
Devil's Canyon
Producer
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Última Chance
Executive Producer
The story tells of Russ Lambert (Robert Mitchum), a prize-fighter with a lethal right-handed punch, who through no fault of his own, killed a fighter in the ring. Since the fight his life has gone downhill.
Suplício de um Condenado
Producer
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Producer
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
A Estrada dos Homens Sem Lei
Producer
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
Horizonte de Glórias
Producer
O Major Daniel Kirby (John Wayne) passa a comandar um esquadrão aéreo pouco antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Encontra pilotos em sua maioria indisciplinados e preguiçosos e ainda tem de enfrentar a resistência do Capitão Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan), melhor aviador do time, sempre pensando primeiro na integridade física dos colegas e despreparado para arcar com os complexos conflitos que um combate gera. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Horizonte de Glórias
Screenplay
O Major Daniel Kirby (John Wayne) passa a comandar um esquadrão aéreo pouco antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Encontra pilotos em sua maioria indisciplinados e preguiçosos e ainda tem de enfrentar a resistência do Capitão Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan), melhor aviador do time, sempre pensando primeiro na integridade física dos colegas e despreparado para arcar com os complexos conflitos que um combate gera. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Tigres Voadores
Producer
Eram o terror dos céus, um pequeno grupo de mercenários ousados, que guerrearam contra os japoneses em defesa da liberdade na China. Eles eram os ases, os aventureiros e os heróis. Os pilotos mais respeitados de toda América, os Tigres Voadores! Com habilidade e coragem incomparáveis, Jim Gordon (John Wayne), o comandante dos Tigres, era uma arma poderosa no céu da China. Mas os Tigres Voadores vão enfrentar muitas batalhas no solo.
Steel Against the Sky
Associate Producer
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Highway West
Producer
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Thieves Fall Out
Associate Producer
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Fugindo ao Destino
Associate Producer
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Associate Producer
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
A Casa Mal-Assombrada
Associate Producer
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Wives Under Suspicion
Associate Producer
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
The Devil's Party
Associate Producer
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Goodbye Broadway
Producer
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
The Jury's Secret
Associate Producer
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
The Road Back
Producer
Após a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um grupo de ex-soldados alemães tenta se adaptar à vida civil.
Let Them Live
Producer
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Breezing Home
Producer
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
The Magnificent Brute
Associate Producer
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
A Ceia das Donzelas
Producer
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Sutter's Gold
Producer
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
O Poder Invisível
Producer
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Associate Producer
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
O Pescador Jovial
Associate Producer
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Associate Producer
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Golden West
Associate Producer
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Bachelor's Affairs
Producer
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
The Rainbow Trail
Producer
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.