The Bat (1959) Horror Thriller Mystery

If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: | “The Bat“ is a mystery film directed by Crane Wilbur. The film's tagline was “When it flies, someone dies!“ The film was based on the 1920 Broadway play “The Bat by Avery Hopwood“ and Mary Roberts “Rinehart“, which was previously filmed as “The Bat“ (1926) and as “The Bat Whispers“ (1930), both directed by Roland West. Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery author who lives in a town terrorized by a mysterious murderer known only as “The Bat“. The Bat is said to be a man with no face who murders women at night by ripping out their throats with steel claws. Early in the film, The Bat enters Van Gorder's house and releases a bat, which bites van Gorder's maid Lizzy (Lenita Lane). With Lizzy in a panic, fearing she may now have contracted “the rabies“, an outbreak of which local papers have reported, Van Gorder calls