Directing

Frank Griffin

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Love, Loot and Crash poster
4.7

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.

Love, Loot and Crash

1915

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6.0

A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.

The King of the Kitchen

1918

A Versatile Villain poster
4.2

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.

A Versatile Villain

1915

Seven Keys to Baldpate poster
7.0

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

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NR

Keystone silent comedy.

Only a Messenger Boy

1915

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4.8

It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.

Crossed Love and Swords

1915

Maggie's First False Step poster
NR

Maggie's First False Step

Maggie's First False Step

1917

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NR

About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.

His Father's Footsteps

1915

Bombs! poster
5.0

When a new reformist mayor refuses to cave to corruption, his opponents plot terroristic reprisal. Their efforts go awry in very goofy ways (including some wild stunts). This rambunctious comedy from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios features his stars Charles Murray as a scheming campaign manager and Louise Fazenda as the the fiancee he unwisely scorns in favor of the mayor's daughter.

Bombs!

1916

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6.0

Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.

Her First Kiss

1919

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4.8

Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.

The Feathered Nest

1916

They Looked Alike poster
6.3

Two tramps look so much alike that they can outfox the police time after time. When one of them is locked in a shack, the police manage to catch the other one and expose the trick.

They Looked Alike

1915

Her Fame and Shame poster
4.8

A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.

Her Fame and Shame

1917

The Rent Jumpers poster
4.7

The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.

The Rent Jumpers

1915

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NR

Lost at the Front is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Del Lord and written by Hampton Del Ruth, Frank Griffin, and Ralph Spence. The film stars George Sidney, Charles Murray, Natalie Kingston, John Kolb, Max Asher, and Brooks Benedict. The film was released on May 29, 1927, by First National Pictures.

Lost at the Front

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Settled at the Seaside poster
5.0

Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?

Settled at the Seaside

1915

Her Torpedoed Love poster
5.0

A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.

Her Torpedoed Love

1917

Conductor 1492 poster
5.5

A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.

Conductor 1492

1924

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3.0

His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.

His Luckless Love

1915

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NR

Chester Conklin gets a job in the props department of a movie studio. Soon he gets into all sorts of trouble.

Studio Sap

1931

Love in Armor poster
4.2

Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...

Love in Armor

1915