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5.9Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was 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 is killed before he can retrieve it.
Released: 1959-08-0980 minDir: Crane WilburHorror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
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Cast
- Vincent Price as Dr. Malcolm Wells
- Agnes Moorehead as Cornelia van Gorder
- Gavin Gordon as Lt. Andy Anderson
- John Sutton as Warner, the Chauffeur
- Lenita Lane as Lizzie Allen
- Elaine Edwards as Dale Bailey
Themes
- amateur detective
- bat
- black and white
- series of murders
- old dark house
- doctor patient relationship
- mystery writer
- hidden loot
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- mystery film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Bat
- Director
- Crane Wilbur
- Screenwriter
- Avery Hopwood
- Cast member
- Elaine Edwards
- Cinematographer
- Joseph F. Biroc
- Duration
- 80
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Agnes Moorehead in The Bat.jpg
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- publication date
- 1959-01-01
- film editor
- William Austin
- title
- The Bat
- Commons category
- The Bat (1959 film)
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 17%
- copyright status
- public domain
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