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The Bat(1959)
Status: Released
Date: 1959-08-09
59%
132 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
When it flies... someone dies!
Overview:
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Liberty Pictures
Movie: The Bat
Top 10 Billed Cast
Vincent Price
Dr. Malcolm Wells
Agnes Moorehead
Cornelia van Gorder
Gavin Gordon
Lt. Andy Anderson
John Sutton
Warner, the Chauffeur
Lenita Lane
Lizzie Allen
Elaine Edwards
Dale Bailey
Darla Hood
Judy Hollander
John Bryant
Mark Fleming
Harvey Stephens
John Fleming
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