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The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat
★ 5.3/10•1940•1h 8m•NR•Horror•Science Fiction•Crime

He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

Jean Yarbrough · Director

John T. Neville · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 8m
LanguageEN
Release DateDec 13, 1940

Actors

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr

'One-Shot' McGuire

Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Alan Baldwin

Tommy Heath

John Ellis

Roy Heath

Arthur Q. Bryan

Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Hal Price

Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

John Davidson

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Wally Rairden

Walter King

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