Writing

Nicholas T. Barrows

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

I'm from the City poster
7.0

Pete Pepper 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. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.

I'm from the City

1938

Feel My Pulse poster
6.6

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.

Feel My Pulse

1928

Scrambled Weddings poster
7.0

Edward Everett Horton and Ruth Dwyer are in love and expect to get married as soon as one of them mentions it to the other. In the meantime, Lolita Lee accepts Horton's proposal, which he doesn't recall making, and Miss Dwyer is invited to be a bridesmaid. So he tells Miss Dwyer that it's Stanley Taylor she's marrying, and hopes no one spills the beans before Taylor shows up in a false beard to spike the proceedings.

Scrambled Weddings

1928

That's My Baby! poster
5.6

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.

That's My Baby!

1944

Whirl o' the West poster
8.0

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.

Whirl o' the West

1921

Million Dollar Legs poster
6.8

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Million Dollar Legs

1932

The Burglar poster
5.0

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.

The Burglar

1928

His Unlucky Night poster
10.0

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.

His Unlucky Night

1928

The Night Bird poster
7.0

A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

The Night Bird

1928

Delinquent Parents poster
7.3

A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.

Delinquent Parents

1938

Find the King poster
8.0

In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through various machinations, he winds up running a saloon out west, where he charms one of the two tough guys in town by taking away his tie and fixing a bow tie to him; the other, Jack Curtis, he bests at poker "for keeps!" and wins the heart of local good girl Violet Bird.

Find the King

1927

No Publicity poster
7.0

Cameraman Eddie is sent to photograph a socialite at a private lecture on morals. The young woman's guardian will have none of it however, and Eddie resorts to a number of deceptions in order to get a picture.

No Publicity

1927

Dangerous Holiday poster
5.3

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Dangerous Holiday

1937

Dangerous Holiday poster
5.3

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Dangerous Holiday

1937

Dad's Choice poster
7.3

Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.

Dad's Choice

1928

Vacation Waves poster
7.0

Eddie and his wife rent a boat and plan a relaxing weekend fishing. Unfortunately, her mother and bratty kid brother show up and insist on coming along, sending relaxation right to the bottom of the ocean.

Vacation Waves

1928

No artwork available
7.0

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."

Greek Meets Greek

1920

No artwork available
NR

Courtroom comedy with Eddie Boland as Judge.

Good Morning, Judge

1922

No artwork available
NR

Eddie Boland & Ethel Broadhurst on a road trip encountering gypsies.

On Their Way

1921

No artwork available
NR

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.

Prince Pistachio

1921