The Devil Bat
“He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!”
1940•NR•1h 8m•5.3•Released
HorrorScience FictionCrime
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.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Writer
John T. Neville
Languages
English
Studio
PRC
Cast
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Yolande Donlan
Maxine
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
Gene O'Donnell
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
Production
Company
PRC
Producer
Jack Gallagher
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