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.
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2 films
Cast
15 people
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Known for
Dracula
White Zombie
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
Also in
Phantom Ranger
What's the Matador?
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton
Known for
Tell Your Children
Kiss Me Kate
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Known for
King of the Zombies
It's a Gift
Yolande Donlan
Maxine
Also in
Jigsaw
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
Known for
The Bigamist
Carrie
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
Also in
Werewolf of London
It's Love I'm After
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton
Also in
The Ape
The Girl in Black Stockings
Alan Baldwin
Tommy Heath
Also in
Girl from Rio
Undercover Man
John Ellis
Roy Heath
Also in
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Ski Patrol
Arthur Q. Bryan
Joe McGinty
Known for
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
Samson and Delilah
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins
Also in
Dead Men Walk
Sagebrush Trail
Jean Yarbrough Director · John T. Neville Screenplay George Bricker Story
United States release December 13, 1940 · Produced in United States · Production Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Production
PRC
Production
Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 11, 1940
Premiere
United States · December 13, 1940
Theatrical
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