Granville Bates Movies

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

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...

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

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

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

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 small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.

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

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's...

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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