The Bat Whispers (1930)

Directed by

Roland West

Genre

drama film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious criminal known as the Bat terrorizes a remote country house. A group of people must figure out who the Bat is before they become the next victim.

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What happens

The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926. An early talkie and one of the first widescreen films, West financed the cinematography, which required two cameramen and several techniques. It was considered a lost film for many years, but was restored from duplicate filmstock in 1988. As a work published in 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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