The Devil Bat (1940)

Crime Horror Mystery

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.

Updated May 11 2020

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US -

1940-12-13

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Keywords:

bat revenge murder mad scientist reporter aftershave lotion

FACTS

Runtime: 68 mins Rating: 5.2 Tag Line: He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

Cast

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Yolande Donlan

Maxine