The Vampire Bat

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The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American horror film featuring mysterious deaths in a small town that are blamed on vampire bats.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
basedOn original screenplay
blackAndWhite true
character Aunt Gussie
Dr. Otto von Niemann
Herman Gleib
Karl Brettschneider
Ruth Bertin
cinematographyBy Sidney Hickox
countryOfOrigin United States
United States of America
director Frank R. Strayer
distributor Majestic Pictures
editedBy Otto Meyer
era Pre-Code Hollywood
filmingLocation Universal Studios, California
format 35 mm film
genre horror
mystery film
hasCultFollowing true
hasHomeMediaRelease Blu-ray
DVD
VHS
hasTheme mad scientist
mob hysteria
vampirism
includesCreature vampire bat
musicBy Arthur Kay
narrativeDevice false supernatural explanation revealed as scientific experiment
notableFor early 1930s independent horror production
pairing of Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
originalLanguage English
plotSummary Mysterious deaths in a small town are blamed on vampire bats until a human culprit is uncovered.
producer Phil Goldstone
productionCompany Majestic Pictures
publicDomainStatus public domain in the United States
releaseDate 1933-01-21
releaseYear 1933
runtimeMinutes 63
screenwriter Edward T. Lowe Jr.
setIn small German town
sound mono
stars Fay Wray
George E. Stone
Lionel Atwill
Maude Eburne
Melvyn Douglas
timePeriodDepicted contemporary to 1930s

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Lionel Atwill performedIn The Vampire Bat
Dwight Iliff Fry notableWork The Vampire Bat
Dwight Iliff Fry workedOn The Vampire Bat
Maude Eburne notableWork The Vampire Bat