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James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 - February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971.
Born in Chicago, Grant began his career in the mid-1930s developing stories or writing scripts for mostly B movies. He collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects, starting with Angel and the Badman (which he also directed) in 1947 through Circus World in 1964. Support Your Local Gunfighter was released in 1971, five years after his death.
Grant won the Bronze Wrangler, an annual award presented by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, twice, for The Alamo in 1961 and The Comancheros the following year. He and William Bowers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Sheepman in 1959.
Grant wrote numerous short stories that were published in Argosy, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty, among others.
Grant died from cancer in Burbank, California. He owned a cattle ranch in Winton in Merced County from the 1940s until his death.
Most Popular James Edward Grant Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
10 September 1937
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
07 August 1936
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
13 October 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them.
30 September 1937
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
23 October 1960
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
18 December 1935
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer.
26 May 1949
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
21 September 1956
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
12 November 1963
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems.
26 November 1953
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
16 December 1961
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
24 December 1938
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store.
03 June 1938
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
25 May 1945
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion.
28 August 1951
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat.
01 December 1956
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
22 February 1950
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents.
12 June 1963
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
01 July 1967
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame.
25 June 1964
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
01 July 1958
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town.
01 May 1958
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with.
01 May 1940
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad.
01 January 1950
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist.
15 February 1947
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others.
03 April 1936
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
26 April 1951
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
18 May 1950
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
30 August 1952
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time.
10 August 1939
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
16 July 1976
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles.
12 February 1942
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street.
26 May 1971
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
15 September 1950
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy.
20 August 1937
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself.
03 July 1938
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
02 July 1937
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
09 December 1941
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
13 February 1936
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins.
16 May 1941
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving.
04 January 1940
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
30 October 1948
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system.
05 July 2009
A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.
24 April 1936
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
09 October 2026
In this remake of the classic western, a feared outlaw staggers onto a rancher’s land expecting a quick death, not mercy.
01 July 1951
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
27 December 1944
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
27 April 1944
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York.
15 December 1950
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
23 July 1954
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
