This film was based on a Broadway play and is more of a murder mystery than a horror movie to be honest but it's got the right setting and atmosphere. A mysterious criminal known as "The Bat" terrorises a spinster and her guests as he searches for some hidden loot in her mansion. It's pretty average stuff.
The film is also noted as a clear and obvious influence on Batman
Jewel Carmen ( as Dale Ogden )
Sex : No but her white dress is pretty see-through at times
Death : Survives
Jewel was born Florence Quick in Kentucky. She was actually the wife of the film's director Roland West and peripherally involved in the scandal that broke in 1935 around the death of his mistress Thelma Todd in 1935 . They were quickly divorced and Carmen dropped out of the public eye though in truth she hadn't made another film after this one. She died in 1984 aged 86.
Louise Fazenda ( as Lizzie Allen )
Sex : No, she's comic relief
Death : Survives
Louise was born in Indiana of Portugese descent. She was more of a character actress than a dolly bird and as such her career lasted until the end of the thirties. In later life she was known as an art collector and philanthropist. She died of a stroke in 1962 aged 66.
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