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The Devil Bat (1940)

The Devil Bat (1940)

Science Fiction Crime Horror

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

Release Date: 1940, December 13
Directors: Jean Yarbrough
Countries: United States of America
Production: PRC
Cast: John Davidson, Billy Griffith, Bela Lugosi, Edmund Mortimer, Arthur Q. Bryan, Donald Kerr, Dave O'Brien, John Ellis, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Gene O'Donnell

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.

Keywords:

murder revenge mad scientist bat reporter