The Bat

The Bat

Year: 1959

IMDb Rating: 6.0/10

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Directors: Crane Wilbur

Cast: Gavin Gordon, Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price, Darla Hood

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been 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 he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities.

The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat. The 1959 film version was adapted by playwright Crane Wilbur, who also directed it. The Bat wound up in December 1959 on a double bill with the British Hammer film The Mummy. Now in the public domain, The Bat is available for online download.

A mystery writer starts being menaced by a serial killer known as "The Bat" after renting a house with a million dollars hidden in its walls. You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page . An MP4 of the movie can be found here .

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