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The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat
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The Devil Bat

1940
1h 8m
Horror
Science Fiction
Crime

Status

Released

Release

1940

Runtime

1h 8m

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Storyline

"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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 8m
Dec 13, 1940
Languages
English
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Jean Yarbrough
Production
PRC
PRC
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

15 Cast Members

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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