The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

68 mins | Science Fiction, Horror | Dec. 13, 1940

Dr. Paul 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.

The Devil Bat

68 mins | Science Fiction, Horror | Dec. 13, 1940

The Devil Bat
Dr. Paul 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.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Original title The Devil Bat
Directors Jean Yarbrough
Writers John T. Neville, George Bricker

Cast

Bela Lugosi

as Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

as Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

as Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

as Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

as Maxine

Donald Kerr

as 'One-Shot' McGuire

Edmund Mortimer

as Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell

as Don Morton

Alan Baldwin

as Tommy Heath

John Ellis

as Roy Heath

Arthur Q. Bryan

as Joe McGinty

Hal Price

as Chief Wilkins

John Davidson

as Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Billy Griffith

as Coroner (scenes deleted)

Wally Rairden

as Walter King