The Devil Bat
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.
- 5.3
- 1940
- Released
- 1h 8m
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 MortonAlan Baldwin
Tommy HeathJohn Ellis
Roy Heath
Arthur Q. Bryan
Joe McGinty
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins
John Davidson
Prof. Percival Garland RainesBilly Griffith
Coroner (scenes deleted)Wally Rairden
Walter King
Released
en
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- #mad scientist
- #revenge
- #murder
- #reporter
Reviews
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-term cash from an invention that he took the quick buck from. By way of exacting his cunning revenge,
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 that’s as bonkers as it is fun. Plot sees Lugosi as a fed up cosmetic chemist who decides that the compan