THE BAT (1959)

 

Directed by: Crane Wilbur

Based on the novel "The Circular Staircase" by: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Based on the stage play by: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood

Starring: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Darla Hood, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, John Bryant, Harvey Stephens, Mike Steele, Riza Royce, Robert B. Williams

80 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

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.

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