The Devil Bat( 1940)

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He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

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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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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
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton
Alan Baldwin
Tommy Heath
John Ellis
Roy Heath
Arthur Q. Bryan
Joe McGinty
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins
John Davidson
Prof. Percival Garland Raines
Billy Griffith
Coroner (scenes deleted)
Wally Rairden
Walter King

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon Nov 04 2013

Imbecile, Bombastic, Ignoramus. The Devil Bat is directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by George Bricker and John T. Neville. It stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Donald Kerr and Gary Usher. The Heathville Horror! Straight out of Poverty Row is this PRC production that’s as bonkers as it is fun. Plot sees Lugosi as a fed up cosmetic chemist who decides that the company he provides his inventions for have not done right by him financially. So in his secret laboratory at home he breeds big killer bats, bats that he rears to kill anyone wearing the scent of aftershave...