The Devil Bat
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.
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
Reviews
John Chard
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’...
CinemaSerf
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-t...
