The Devil Bat 84 years old
He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
Credits
The Devil Bat Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Edmund Mortimer He was 66, 69 years old when he died | as Martin Heath |
| Bela Lugosi He was 58, 73 years old when he died | as Dr. Paul Carruthers |
| Arthur Q. Bryan He was 41, 60 years old when he died | as Joe McGinty |
| Yolande Donlan She was 20, now 104 years old | as Maxine |
| John Ellis | as Roy Heath |
| John Davidson He was 53, 81 years old when he died | as Prof. Percival Garland Raines |
| Gene O'Donnell He was 29, 81 years old when he died | as Don Morton |
| Suzanne Kaaren She was 28, 92 years old when she died | as Mary Heath |
| Alan Baldwin | as Tommy Heath |
| Donald Kerr He was 1, 37 years old when he died | as 'One-Shot' McGuire |
| Hal Price He was 54, 77 years old when he died | as Chief Wilkins |
| Dave O'Brien He was 28, 57 years old when he died | as Johnny Layton |
| Guy Usher He was 57, 61 years old when he died | as Henry Morton |
| Billy Griffith He was 26, 78 years old when he died | as Coroner (scenes deleted) |
The Devil Bat Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Holbrook N. Todd as Editor. He was 34 (66) years old when He died | Editing |
| Jean Yarbrough as Director. He was 40 (74) years old when He died | Directing |
| George Bricker as Original Story. He was 42 (56) years old when He died | Writing |
| John T. Neville as Screenplay. He was 53 (83) years old when He died | Writing |
| Guy V. Thayer, Jr. as Associate Producer. | Production |
| Arthur Martinelli as Director of Photography. He was 59 (86) years old when He died | Camera |
The Devil Bat (84 years)
He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
- Release day: Friday, December 13, 1940
- Runtime: 68 minutes