The Devil Bat

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1940 · 68 min · NR · Horror · Science Fiction · Crime · TMDB 5.3/10

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.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough

Cast

• Bela Lugosi — Dr. Paul Carruthers
• Suzanne Kaaren — Mary Heath
• Dave O'Brien — Johnny Layton
• Guy Usher — Henry Morton
• Yolande Donlan — Maxine