Granville Bates Movies

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her...

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented...

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob....

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

Rev. Chris Saunders becomes entangled in a moral and legal crisis when he hears a confession that could exonerate a young man wrongly convicted of...

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires...

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes...

A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the...

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier...

A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.

Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother...

Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally,...