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The Devil Bat

NR
Movie
1940
1h 8m
English
Horror, Science Fiction
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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CRITIC SCORE
55

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Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
Dave OBrien
Johnny Layton
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
Gene ODonnell
Don Morton
Alan Baldwin
Tommy Heath
John Ellis
Roy Heath
Arthur Q Bryan
Joe McGinty
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins
John Davidson
Prof. Percival Garland Raines
Billy Griffith
Coroner (scenes deleted)
Wally Rairden
Walter King
Directed By: Jean Yarbrough
Written By: George Bricker (Original Story), John T. Neville (Screenplay)

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wambie says...
6 years ago
If you don't like this movie you may be a........."Imbecile! Bombastic ignoramus!"
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CinemaSerf
a month ago
OK, so almost all of the peril comes from a man out of shot careering about with a plastic bat on the end of a fishing rod, but somehow this daft sci-fi hokum makes a point. It's all about the rather shrewd scientist "Carruthers" (Bela Lugosi) who feels slighted by his pals who made a load of long-t More
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John Chard
6 years ago
Imbecile, Bombastic, Ignoramus.

The Devil Bat is directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by George Bricker and John T. Neville. It stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Donald Kerr and Gary Usher.

The Heathville Horror!

Straight out of Poverty Row is this PRC production tha More
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