The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJean Yarborough
Written byJohn Thomas Neville
Based onoriginal story by
George Bricker
Produced byJack Gallagher
StarringBela Lugosi
CinematographyArthur Martinelli, A.S.C.
Edited byHolbrook N. Todd
Music byDavid Chudnow
(musical director)
Production
company
Distributed byProducers Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • December 13, 1940 (1940-12-13)[1]
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Devil Bat is a 1940 black-and-white American horror film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarborough.[2][3] The film stars Bela Lugosi[4] along with Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott and the comic team of Dave O'Brien and Donald Kerr as the protagonists. It was the first horror film from PRC.[5]

The Devil Bat (1940), complete film
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers, the mad scientist protagonist of the poverty row horror film The Devil Bat (1940).
  1. ^ Weaver, Tom (1993). "The Devil Bat (PRC, 1940)" in Poverty Row Horrors! Monogram, PRC and Republic Horror Films of the Forties. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-89950-756-5. p. 14.
  2. ^ "Horror Pictures on Barry Screen" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 30, 1941, p.24)
  3. ^ "FILMS of the WEEK / QUEEN—"The Devil Bat"" (The Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, Delaware, February 9, 1941, p.34)
  4. ^ "RITZ—"Devil Bat", starring Bela Lugosi, and running Monday through Thursday, is an ingenious story about a vengeance-crazed genius who produces a deadly and terrifying species of killer-bat to wreak revenge on those he thinks oppress him" (Reading Eagle, February 16, 1941, p.16 / captioned photo of Lugosi holding a skull)
  5. ^ The Devil Bat at TCM