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The Devil Bat

1940-12-13 · 68 min · ★ 5.3

Horror · Science Fiction · Crime

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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Directors
Jean Yarbrough
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PRC
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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Bela LugosiBela LugosiDr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne KaarenSuzanne KaarenMary Heath
Dave O'BrienDave O'BrienJohnny Layton
Guy UsherGuy UsherHenry Morton
Yolande DonlanYolande DonlanMaxine
Donald KerrDonald Kerr'One-Shot' McGuire
Edmund MortimerMartin Heath
Gene O'DonnellGene O'DonnellDon Morton
Alan BaldwinTommy Heath
John EllisRoy Heath
Arthur Q. BryanArthur Q. BryanJoe McGinty
Hal PriceHal PriceChief Wilkins
John DavidsonJohn DavidsonProf. Percival Garland Raines
Billy GriffithCoroner (scenes deleted)
Wally RairdenWalter King

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