The Devil Bat

1940 PG-13 1h 8m

5.3 / 10 87

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Horror Science Fiction Crime

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

Writers

John T. Neville George Bricker

Stars

Bela Lugosi Suzanne Kaaren Dave O'Brien

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

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Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

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Wally Rairden

Walter King

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Prof. Percival Garland Raines

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Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Geronimo1967 26 Dec 2024

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,...

John Chard 4 Nov 2013

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...