The Devil Bat (1940)
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.
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Writer:
John T. Neville
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Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers |
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Suzanne Kaaren as Mary Heath |
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Dave O'Brien as Johnny Layton |
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Guy Usher as Henry Morton |
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Yolande Donlan as Maxine |
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Donald Kerr as 'One-Shot' McGuire |
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Edmund Mortimer as Martin Heath |
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Gene O'Donnell as Don Morton |
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Alan Baldwin as Tommy Heath |
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John Ellis as Roy Heath |
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Arthur Q. Bryan as Joe McGinty |
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Hal Price as Chief Wilkins |
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John Davidson as Prof. Percival Garland Raines |
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Billy Griffith as Coroner (scenes deleted) |
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Wally Rairden as Walter King |
| Directing | Jean Yarbrough | Director |
| Writing | John T. Neville | Screenplay |
| Writing | George Bricker | Original Story |
| Art | Paul Palmentola | Art Direction |
| Production | Guy V. Thayer Jr. | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Holbrook N. Todd | Editor |
| Production | Jack Gallagher | Producer |
| Production | Melville De Lay | Production Manager |
| Camera | Arthur Martinelli | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ferrol Redd | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | David Chudnow | Music Director |