Granville Bates Movies

"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 singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is...

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 reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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

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...

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

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

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

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

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