The Devil Bat (1940)

5.3/10 68 min 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.

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

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

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