The Devil Bat

Infobox_Film
name = The Devil Bat


director = Jean Yarbrough
writer = George Bricker
John T. Neville
starring = Béla Lugosi
Suzanne Kaaren
Dave O'Brien
Guy Usher
producer =
distributor = Producers Releasing Corporation
released = 1940
runtime = 68 m
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:13493
imdb_id = 0032390

"The Devil Bat" (1940) is a black-and-white horror movie which was produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film stars the well known horror actor Béla Lugosi, along with Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott, and Donald Kerr.

Plot

The story involves a small town cosmetic company chemist (Lugosi) who is upset at his wealthy employers, because he feels they have denied him his due share of company success. To get revenge, he breeds giant bats. He then conditions them to kill those wearing a special after-shave lotion he has concocted. 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, which kill his two former partners and three members of their families. A hot shot big city reporter gets assigned by his editor to cover and help solve the murders. He (O'Brien) and his bumbling photographer (Kerr) begin to unwind the mystery with some comic sidelights. The mad chemist is, predictably, done in by his own shaving lotion, and by his own creation -- the dreaded Devil Bat.

Cast

Béla Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers

ee also

* Béla Lugosi filmography

External links

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* [http://www.thedevilbats.com "The Devil Bats", a band influenced by the movie and Rock N Roll!]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038470 IMDB link to "Devil Bat's Daughter", a sequel of sorts]