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Cornelia, a mystery story writer decides to rent a spooky house known as the Oaks from John Fleming an employee at the town's bank. Her servants have heard that a serial killer called The Bat is operating in the area and they all decide to leave town. When the local bank manager reports a million dollars missing from the bank .. Read more

Starring	Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton, Darla Hood
Director	Crane Wilbur
Genres	Horror

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- Poor remake of a standard twenties stage thriller; everyone chews the scenery.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Good late 50's who-dun-it
  
  This is actually quite a good fifties who-dun-it. The pace is a bit slow but if you stick with it it's worth spending the 80 minutes to see the story ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Oct 2007 at 14:47
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  This print of The Bat is so utterly washed & bleached with white luminescence that it begs belief. Faces of many people in a great many scenes are mouthless... read more »
  
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  Good Classic
  
  Vincent Price is great, as always. This is an excellent ‘Who done it?’, but nothing original. Just another good murder from the 1950s. Worth seeing... read more »
  
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  - 10 Dec 2006 at 19:45
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  I don't know what's happened during the transfer of this to DVD. It seems to be fairly clean and free from noise but it's almost unbearably bright ... read more »
  
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  This print of The Bat is so utterly washed & bleached with white luminescence that it begs belief. Faces of many people in a great many scenes are mouthless... read more »
  
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- 418791
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  - Zaroff
  - 53 reviews
  - Hay on Wye
  - 10 Mar 2007 at 14:03
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  I don't know what's happened during the transfer of this to DVD. It seems to be fairly clean and free from noise but it's almost unbearably bright ... read more »
  
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- - fwibbler
  - 17 reviews
  - Rainham
  - 03 Aug 2004 at 22:21
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  Good Classic
  
  Vincent Price is great, as always. This is an excellent ‘Who done it?’, but nothing original. Just another good murder from the 1950s. Worth seeing... read more »
  
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- - Richard Wagner
  - London
  - 10 Dec 2006 at 19:45
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  Good late 50's who-dun-it
  
  This is actually quite a good fifties who-dun-it. The pace is a bit slow but if you stick with it it's worth spending the 80 minutes to see the story ... read more »
  
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- Poor remake of a standard twenties stage thriller; everyone chews the scenery.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42

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  Cornelia, a mystery story writer decides to rent a spooky house known as the Oaks from John Fleming an employee at the town's bank. Her servants have heard that a serial killer called The Bat is operating in the area and they all decide to leave town. When the local bank manager reports a million ...