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T9662 A l.,ailable July 6 REELS
~~THE DEVIL BAT~~

featuring
BELA LUGOSI and DAVE O'BRIBN
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Dr. Paul Carruthers is a physician the killing. When they report the
with a dual personality. Feeling death as a result of an attack by a
that he has been unjustly de- giant bat, they are ridiculed and
prived of enormous profit; by the finally 'fired'.
owners of the Martin-Heath Cosmet- Eventually there is another myster-
ics Company, the doctor de·totes his ious death, that of Tommy Heath.
spare time to creating a giant killer Johnny Layton and partner succeed
bat, which he trains to react violently in disabling the bat, but soon there is
to the odour of a specific scent. another death, that of Don Morton.
When Henry Morton and Martin Johnny Layton's suspicions are now
Heath tender the doctor a cheque as aroused towards the apparently be-
a bonus for the use of a formula . the ·nign Dr. Carruthers. Discovering
doctor resents that he is dependent that Mary Heath is an intended
on them for what they may choose to victim of the killer bat, Johnny
give him. He should be, he thinks, se arc~es the doctor's laboratory and
a part own·er of the enterprise. In finds another bloodthirsty bat.
revenge, he presents his intended Johnny compels the doctor to
victims with gifts of a new type of accompany him to the garden of the
shaving lotion, which contains the Heath home, to await the coming of
scent he has taught the killer bat to the 'killer'. He throws some of the
hate. scent upon the doctor; the bat
The first victim is Roy Heath. appears and kills the scientist. In
Johnny Layton, a reporter. and his turn,. the bat is killed and the entire
photographer, are sent to the village vicious scheme of the doctor is ex-
by their City Editor to investigate posed.