
The Devil Bat
1941, Horror, 1h 9m
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Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), 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 (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.
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Genre: Horror
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Original Language: English
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Director: Jean Yarbrough
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Producer: Jack Gallagher
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Writer: John T. Neville
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Producers Releasing Corporation
Cast & Crew

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

Edward Mortimer
Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton

Alan Baldwin
Don Morton

John Ellis
Roy Heath

Jean Yarbrough
Director

John T. Neville
Screenwriter

Jack Gallagher
Producer

Arthur Martinelli
Cinematographer

Holbrook N. Todd
Film Editing

Paul Palmentola
Art Director
Critic Reviews for The Devil Bat
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Dec 27, 2011It's very simple. You want Lugosi to be a vampire again, but you don't want to rip off the success of Dracula. How do you do it? Make Lugosi a doctor who experiments on bats that he trains to go out and kill people at night for him. Oh, and you might not want to call it a vampire bat... that would be too obvious. To me, that pretty much sums up The Devil Bat. It's an attempt to capitalize on Lugosi's legacy as the most famous vampire in the history of cinema. Lugosi actually gives a great performance in the film, but the film's has some very broad humor mixed in that sort of destroys any sense of atmosphere it might have. There are two newspaper reporters who are constantly handing out one liners while they investigate the murders taking place. It's very silly at times, but it somehow works well enough for what it is. It isn't anything particularly scary, but it's enjoyable to an extent. It's good for Lugosi's performance, that much is certain.
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Sep 05, 2010I don't know why Lugosi couldn't have just been a vampire again, but I suppose this is supposed to be a variation on Dracula somehow. I don't know, but this was actually a good movie, and Lugosi is always cool.
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Sep 16, 2009It is debatable just how seriously the film took itself but Lugosi is in top form and the movie never fails to entertain.
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Apr 02, 2007Dodgy 40's B-movie. Perfectly harmless and actually rather enjoyable. The bat is pretty hilarious once it takes flight and the story is ofcourse absurd. Other than its camp value there is nothing worth of note.
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