Granville Bates Movies

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

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

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

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 the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires...

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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

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

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

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

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

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

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

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

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

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...

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...