Granville Bates Movies

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...

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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