Poster for the movie The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

1940 • 68 minutes
HorrorScience FictionCrime

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.

Picture of Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Picture of Suzanne Kaaren

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Picture of Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Picture of Guy Usher

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Picture of Yolande Donlan

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

Picture of Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr

'One-Shot' McGuire

Picture of Edmund Mortimer

Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Picture of Gene O'Donnell

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Picture of Alan Baldwin

Alan Baldwin

Tommy Heath

Picture of John Ellis

John Ellis

Roy Heath

Picture of Arthur Q. Bryan

Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Picture of Hal Price

Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

Picture of John Davidson

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Picture of Billy Griffith

Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Picture of Wally Rairden

Wally Rairden

Walter King