Granville Bates Movies

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

Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he...

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

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...

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved...

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

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

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

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.

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

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...

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...

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express...

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

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...