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The Devil Bat

Play trailer Poster for The Devil Bat 1940,  1h 9m,  Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 60% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 32% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
60% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 32% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), 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 (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Feb 12, 2023
2/4
If nothing else, the film does offer the enviable opportunity to hear Lugosi bellow to one of his inferiors, "Imbecile! Bombastic ignoramus!" Go to Full Review
Rosalie Kicks MovieJawn Oct 22, 2018
3/4
With the assistance of his trusty bats Beyyyla sets out to take revenge on his megalomaniac corporate employer. Need I say more? Go to Full Review
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Oct 24, 2013
3/4
In many of his movies, Bela Lugosi has bats in his belfry. But only in 'The Devil Bat' does he *really* have bats in his belfry, or at least in the secret chamber behind his hidden laboratory. Go to Full Review
Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com Mar 8, 2008
2/5
Horror fluff noted for Lugosi starring role. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Sep 29, 2005
3/5
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Oct 11, 2004
B
Rubbed me the right way. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Jean Yarbrough

Director

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

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The Devil Bat

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Movie Info

Synopsis Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), 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 (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Producer
Jack Gallagher
Screenwriter
John T. Neville
Distributor
Producers Releasing Corporation
Production Co
Producers Releasing Corp
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 13, 1940, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 28, 2011
Runtime
1h 9m
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