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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.
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Dec 13, 1940
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Sep 3, 2002
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Cast
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Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers
S
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
D
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton
G
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Y
Yolande Donlan
Maxine
D
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
E
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
G
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton
A
Alan Baldwin
Tommy Heath
J
John Ellis
Roy Heath
A
Arthur Q. Bryan
Joe McGinty
H
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins
J
John Davidson
Prof. Percival Garland Raines
B
Billy Griffith
Coroner (scenes deleted)
W
Wally Rairden
Walter King
Quotes
See all →Midnight Skies and Blood-Sucking Death
Taglines
Sharp Fanged Blood Sucking DEATH Dives from MIDNIGHT SKIES!
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Bats Trained for Deadly Attacks
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He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Devil Bat Collection
Series about The Devil Bat Paul Carruthers and his daughter Nina Carruthers/MacCarron.
