The best Granville Bates’s drama movies

Granville Bates

Granville Bates

07/01/1882- 08/07/1940
Today we present the best Granville Bates’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Granville Bates’s movies.
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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Carlson
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1937
  • Character: Mr. Hunter (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Green Light

Green Light
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/02/1937
  • Character: Sheriff
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.

Beloved Enemy

Beloved Enemy
6.4/10
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. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.

The Mortal Storm

The Mortal Storm
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/06/1940
  • Character: Professor Berg
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.

Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent
5.9/10
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.

Chatterbox

Chatterbox
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/01/1936
  • Character: Philip Greene Sr.
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.

The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Second Man on Plane (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
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. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Indianapolis Speedway

Indianapolis Speedway
5.7/10
This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film "The Crowd Roars", stars Pat O'Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother (John Payne) wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Mannequin

Mannequin
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/01/1938
  • Character: Mr. Gebhart (Uncredited)
Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
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.

The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/01/1939
  • Character: The Mayor
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.

Mountain Justice

Mountain Justice
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/04/1937
  • Character: Judge Crawley
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Woman in the Dark

Woman in the Dark
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/11/1934
  • Character: Sheriff Fred Grant
Lightweight but entertaining crime/drama about a man (Ralph Bellamy) released from prison and deciding to stay alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back into prison.

A Man to Remember

A Man to Remember
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: George Sykes
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

They Won't Forget

They Won't Forget
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 14/07/1937
  • Character: Detective Pindar
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.

I Live My Life

I Live My Life
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1935
  • Character: Yacht Captain (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Flowing Gold

Flowing Gold
6.5/10
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 him as a roughneck.

Back in Circulation

Back in Circulation
6.3/10
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

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