Granville Bates Trailers
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Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.
Men Against the Sky TrailerFlowing Gold TrailerPrivate Affairs Trailer
Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.
Total trailers found: 79
29 February 1936
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.
08 August 1938
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
09 August 1935
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico.
29 October 1917
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 Hubbard.
16 May 1937
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
22 November 1937
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes.
21 February 1936
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
28 October 1939
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.
13 February 1937
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
23 February 1939
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
12 March 1937
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father.
17 June 1936
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 daughter Poppy.
14 October 1938
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
13 September 1929
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who bought the shop for her.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
27 August 1937
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
06 October 1939
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City.
14 October 1938
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr.
07 March 1934
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
19 February 1937
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
14 September 1935
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
22 June 1940
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 hospital costs involved.
09 December 1938
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money.
23 September 1938
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 over the radio.
14 November 1936
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
05 July 1940
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
09 September 1938
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
24 December 1939
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
23 March 1937
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
06 September 1940
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
21 March 1931
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
31 December 1937
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City.
16 November 1936
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
17 May 1940
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
14 July 1937
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day.
24 January 1939
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
02 August 1935
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car.
18 November 1938
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
14 March 1932
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.
23 October 1937
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
20 June 1940
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
25 December 1936
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction.
14 March 1940
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
13 January 1940
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
30 September 1939
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 espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
07 October 1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour.
09 May 1937
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
21 January 1938
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
22 April 1938
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
26 July 1930
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer.
08 November 1934
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 disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
04 October 1935
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
07 September 1937
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
01 August 1931
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
11 September 1937
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 indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.
20 February 1937
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.