Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: VCI8020
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 089859802027
- Street Date: 08/13/24
- PreBook Date: 07/09/24
- Label: VCI Entertainment »
- Genre: Horror
- Run Time: 83 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1930
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Chester Morris
- Una Merkel
- William Bakewell
- Grayce Hampton
- Maude Eburne
- Gustav von Seyffertitz
- Spencer Charters
- Charles Dow Clark
- Director: Roland West
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The Bat Whispers (1930) [Special Edition]
Despite advance warning to the police, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite.
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An infamous burglar and jewel thief known as "The Bat" plays cat and mouse with the police and terrorizes the occupants of a mansion, leased from a bank president who is in Europe. After the town bank is robbed, "the Bat" and a cashier named, Brook, who disappeared afterwards, are the main suspects. Strange things begin to occur in the mansion, such as mysterious noises, lights being turned on and off and an ominous shadow is seen by the occupants. When a rock is thrown through a window with a threatening note telling the occupants to leave 'or else', the renter, Cornelia Van Gorder, and her guests, suspect the money from the robbery might be hidden there. They begin a search for a hidden room, hoping to find the stolen money but when Ms. Gorder's guests begin turning up dead, she fears "The Bat" is trying to keep them from finding his 'Stash."
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- Comic-book creator Bob Kane said in his 1989 autobiography Batman and Me that the villain of The Bat Whispers was an inspiration for his character Batman.
- The Bat Whisperer is an early talkie and one of the first widescreen films.
- 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.
- Making it's debut on Blu-ray & DVD, The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West (Alibi), produced by Joseph M. Schenck (Reaching for the Moon)
- This film was remade again in 1959 as The Bat with Agnes Moorehead and Vincent Price.
