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The Bat (1926) is a silent film based on the 1920 Broadway hit The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda.
Cast
- George Beranger – Gideon Bell (billed as Andre de Beranger)
- Charles Herzinger – Courleigh Fleming
- Emily Fitzroy – Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
- Louise Fazenda – Lizzie Allen
- Arthur Housman – Richard Fleming (billed as Arthur Houseman)
- Robert McKim – Dr. Wells
- Jack Pickford – Brooks Bailey
- Jewel Carmen – Miss Dale Ogden
- Sojin Kamiyama – Billy, the Butler
- Tullio Carminati – Detective Moletti
- Eddie Gribbon – Detective Anderson
- Lee Shumway – The Unknown
Plot
Writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Fitzroy) rents a house for the summer. In the house, people search for hidden loot while a caped killer (nicknamed "The Bat") murders them one by one.
Remakes
Film remakes:
- Director Roland West remade his film four years later as The Bat Whispers (1930), with Chester Morris and Una Merkel, and also released by United Artists.
- A 1959 remake, The Bat, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead, was released by Allied Artists.
TV adaptations include:
- Broadway Television Theatre (1953) 60-minute TV series (WOR-TV, syndicated), with Estelle Winwood, Alice Pearce, and Jay Joslyn
- Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960) 60-minute NBC-TV series, with Helen Hayes, Margaret Hamilton, and Jason Robards.
- Der Spinnenmörder (1978) 88-minute German TV movie
References
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Kategorien:
- 1926 films
- 1920s comedy films
- 1920s horror films
- 1920s mystery films
- 1920s thriller films
- American silent feature films
- Black-and-white films
- Films based on plays
- American mystery films
- Films directed by Roland West
- American comedy horror films
- American films
- Haunted house films
- American comedy films
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