He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
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.
The Devil Bat (1940) is a horror, science fiction and crime film directed by Jean Yarbrough, released on December 13, 1940 with a runtime of 1h 8m. It stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien and Guy Usher. Viewers rate it 5.3 out of 10 across 88 ratings.
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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
Directed by Jean Yarbrough, written by John T. Neville and George Bricker, produced by Jack Gallagher.
Average viewer score of 5.3/10 from 88 ratings.
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…
Reviewed on November 4, 2013
OK, so almost all of the peril comes from a man out of shot careering about with a plastic bat on the end of a fishing rod, but somehow this daft sci-fi hokum makes a point. It's all about the rather shrewd scientist "Carruthers" (Bela Lugosi) who feels slighted by his pals who made a load of long-term cash from an invention that he took the quick buck from. By way of exacting his cunning revenge, he has devised a…
Reviewed on December 26, 2024
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The Devil Bat (1940) is available to stream on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, Brew, MGM Plus, Screambox Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, Bloodstream and Artiflix, and to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Brew, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home and FlixFling. Streaming availability is checked against JustWatch data and can change by region.
The main cast of The Devil Bat (1940) includes Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher and Yolande Donlan. The film was directed by Jean Yarbrough. You can see the full cast and crew list, with character names, further up this page.
The Devil Bat was released on December 13, 1940 and runs for 1h 8m.
The Devil Bat (1940) holds an average rating of 5.3 out of 10 from 88 viewer votes, and is a good pick if you enjoy horror, science fiction and crime films. Read the viewer reviews on this page to decide for yourself.
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