About this release
Il dottor Carruthers, un tempo eminente scienziato ed ora costretto ad impiegare il suo talento per la produzione di lozioni e profumi, medita una tremenda vendetta contro l’avverso destino. Nel laboratorio segreto, attivando gli impulsi elettronici di una macchina di sua invenzione, ha ingigantito un pipistrello e dopo averlo addestrato a riconoscere dall’olfatto un profumo da lui prodotto lo invia ad uccidere i proprietari della casa di cosmetici Heath & Morton, colpevoli di essersi arricchiti sfruttando la sua formula...
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Disc 1
DVD
The Devil Bat (1940)
68 min
Science FictionCrimeHorror
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.
Credits
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Writer
John T. Neville
Cast
Bela Lugosias Dr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne Kaarenas Mary Heath
Dave O'Brienas Johnny Layton
Guy Usheras Henry Morton
Yolande Donlanas Maxine
Donald Kerras 'One-Shot' McGuire
Edmund Mortimeras Martin Heath
Gene O'Donnellas Don Morton
Alan Baldwinas Tommy Heath
John Ellisas Roy Heath
Cinematographer
Arthur Martinelli
Editor
Holbrook N. Todd
Producer
Jack Gallagher
Release Details
- Packaging
- Keep Case
Images
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- August 17, 2026