

The Devil Bat
He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
Horror
Science Fiction
Crime
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
Release Date:
1940-12-13
Runtime:
1h 8m
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Writer:
John T. Neville
Top Cast

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
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