The Devil Bat (1940)
He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
68 min
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.
- Release date
- December 13, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers
- Suzanne Kaaren as Mary Heath
- Dave O'Brien as Johnny Layton
- Guy Usher as Henry Morton
- Yolande Donlan as Maxine
- Donald Kerr as 'One-Shot' McGuire
- Edmund Mortimer as Martin Heath
- Gene O'Donnell as Don Morton
- Alan Baldwin as Tommy Heath
- John Ellis as Roy Heath
Crew
- Jean Yarbrough · Director
- John T. Neville · Writer
- George Bricker · Writer
- Jack Gallagher · Producer
- Arthur Martinelli · Cinematographer
- Holbrook N. Todd · Editor