The Bat

About The Bat

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

Crane Wilbur's The Bat is a 1959 crime horror film. The film is filed under series of murders, amateur detective, doctor patient relationship, and bat.

Vincent Price takes the lead as Dr. Malcolm Wells, Agnes Moorehead as Cornelia van Gorder, Gavin Gordon as Lt. Andy Anderson, and John Sutton as Warner, the Chauffeur. At 80 minutes long, it arrived in August 1959.

The screenplay is by Crane Wilbur. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Bloodstream.

Dracula, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Sherlock Jr. make useful companions to The Bat, all filed under black and white and mystery writer. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 141 votes.