Film

The Devil Bat

1940 · 1h 8m · Horror · Science Fiction · Crime

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

IMDb

5.4

Rotten Tomatoes

60%

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.

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

Donald Kerr

'One-Shot' McGuire

Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Alan Baldwin

Tommy Heath

John Ellis

Roy Heath

Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Wally Rairden

Walter King

• Jean YarbroughDirector
• John T. NevilleScreenplay
• Jack GallagherProducer
• Arthur MartinelliDirector of Photography
• Holbrook N. ToddEditor

The Devil Bat 1940 Trailer

Release date

December 13, 1940

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 8m

Rated

NR

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction, Crime

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