The Bat (1958)

19581h 20mdir. Crane WilburUnited Stateshorror filmmystery film

With Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, Darla Hood, Robert B. Williams, Harvey Stephens, John Sutton, Elaine Edwards

Directed by Crane Wilbur

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The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat.

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