Saturday, 30 July 2016

39 The Vampire Bat ( 1933 )


This  was  an  opportunistic  film  by  Majestic  Pictures  using  sets  borrowed  from  James  Whale  and  the  tried  and  trusted  players  Atwill, Wray  and  Frye.

Vampires  are  apparently  responsible  for  a  number of  deaths  in  a  German  village  although  the  young  inspector  Karl  Brettschneider  ( Melvyn Douglas )  is  sceptical. The  real  culprit  turns  out  to  be  a  mad  doctor  ( Atwill )  who  is  draining  blood  from  the  victims  to  feed  a  new  organism  he  has  created  which  looks  like  a  squirming  Yorkshire  pudding. It's  not  bad  I  suppose   but  Fay  Wray  is  the  only  reason  to  watch  it  more  than  once.

Fay  Wray  ( as  Ruth  Bertin )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


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