The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat (1940)

Released: 1940-12-13 Duration: 1hr 8min
Rating 5.3
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.

Production Companies

PRC
PRC

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 5.43

Directed By

Jean Yarbrough

Crew

Director
Jean Yarbrough
Screenplay
John T. Neville
Original Story
George Bricker
Art Direction
Paul Palmentola
Associate Producer
Guy V. Thayer Jr.
Producer
Jack Gallagher
Production Manager
Melville De Lay
Director of Photography
Arthur Martinelli

TOP CAST

Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren
Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien
Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher
Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Donald Kerr
Donald Kerr

'One-Shot' McGuire

Edmund Mortimer
Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell
Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Alan Baldwin
Alan Baldwin

Tommy Heath

John Ellis
John Ellis

Roy Heath

Arthur Q. Bryan
Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Hal Price
Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

John Davidson
John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Billy Griffith
Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Wally Rairden
Wally Rairden

Walter King

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