
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.Status: | Released (1940-12-13) |
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Screen: | John T. Neville, George Bricker |
Productions: | PRC |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |

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- 1547: Bela Lugosi - Dr. Paul Carruthers
- 116309: Suzanne Kaaren - Mary Heath
- 118633: Dave O'Brien - Johnny Layton
- 33855: Guy Usher - Henry Morton
- 133229: Yolande Donlan - Maxine
- 133230: Donald Kerr - 'One-Shot' McGuire
- 98047: Edmund Mortimer - Martin Heath
Crews
- 89745: Jean Yarbrough - Director - Directing
- 102011: John T. Neville - Screenplay - Writing
- 96696: George Bricker - Original Story - Writing
- 977926: Guy V. Thayer Jr. - Associate Producer - Production
- 1047646: Arthur Martinelli - Director of Photography - Camera
- 52182: Holbrook N. Todd - Editor - Editing
- 1176363: Paul Palmentola - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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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 ....
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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 ....
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