Granville Bates Movies

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....

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...

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

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...