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The Devil Bat( 1940)

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He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Bela Lugosi

      Dr. Paul Carruthers

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      Suzanne Kaaren

      Mary Heath

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      Dave O'Brien

      Johnny Layton

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      Guy Usher

      Henry Morton

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      Yolande Donlan

      Maxine

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      Donald Kerr

      'One-Shot' McGuire

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      Edmund Mortimer

      Martin Heath

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      Gene O'Donnell

      Don Morton

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      Alan Baldwin

      Tommy Heath

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      John Ellis

      Roy Heath

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      Arthur Q. Bryan

      Joe McGinty

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      Hal Price

      Chief Wilkins

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      John Davidson

      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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    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Mon Nov 04 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 company he provides his inventions for have not done right by him financially. So in his secret laboratory at home he breeds big killer bats, bats that he rears to kill anyone wearing the scent of aftershave...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • bat
    • mad scientist
    • revenge
    • murder
    • reporter