Rating "The Devil Bat"
5 voted
The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
NR
IMDB
TMDB
Overview:

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) 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.
Released: 1940-12-13
Duration: 01:08:00
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: George Bricker, John T. Neville
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Guy Usher, Gene O'Donnell, ...
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writer: George Bricker John T. Neville
Cast: Bela Lugosi Guy Usher Gene O'Donnell Donald Kerr Edmund Mortimer Suzanne Kaaren Dave O'Brien Yolande Donlan Alan Baldwin John Ellis Arthur Q. Bryan Hal Price John Davidson Billy Griffith Wally Rairden
Genre: Horror Sci-Fi
Description

Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi), a chemist and physician in the small town of Heathville, is offered a $5,000 bonus from his employers for his contributions to the company, a pittance compared to the million dollars in income the company earned from his work. (His employers argue that he took a buyout early in the company's history instead of retaining his partnership stake.) Embittered and insulted, he seeks revenge and develops a system in which ordinary bats are enlarged to massive size, training them to be drawn to a new, pungent aftershave he is testing. He cleverly distributes the lotion to his enemies as a "test" product.

Once they have applied the lotion, the chemist then releases his Devil Bats in the night, targeting the families of his employer's owners. The bats succeed in attacking and killing one of the owners and two of his sons. A hot shot reporter from the Chicago Register, Johnny Layton (Dave O'Brien) gets assigned by his editor (Arthur Q. Bryan) to cover and help solve the murders. He and his bumbling photographer "One-Shot" McGuire (Donald Kerr) begin to unwind the mystery with some comic sidelights.

In the climactic closing scene, Layton dumps a sample of the aftershave on Carruthers, leading the bat to attack and kill its own master. Mary, the last surviving member of her family, runs into Johnny's arms.

Watch The Devil Bat Online

The Devil Bat Is Available Online

Where to watch The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat Streaming Now

You may also like