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The Devil Bat(1940)
Status: Released
Date: 1940-12-13
53%
85 Votes
Time: 1h 8m
He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
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Movie: The Devil Bat
Top 10 Billed Cast
Lugosi Béla
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Yolande Donlan
Maxine
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton
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