Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' Family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Starring:
Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren
Mystery Writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Meanwhile, the house’s owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Starring:
Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
Vampires and Vampire Bats terrorize a small village in Bavaria. Behind it all a sadistic doctor plots to destroy the village and his mortal.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Starring:
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray
For centuries man has feared the bat. Its seeming ability to traverse between the world’s has inspired tales of terrible horror but also stories of great hope. This is the tale of the age-old Bat Man - from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s creation in 1939 to Dracula and even further back into time than most realize. The image and legacy of the bat throughout history is truly emblematic of man’s dark side. This is a tale of more than just the incredible success of a Superhero, but also a unique insight into the Dark Nature of man himself. Re-live the rise of the Batman era, from the very beginnings to the modern age and in so doing understand how this creation has taken on a life of its own.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Biography, Documentary
Starring:
Philip Gardiner
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Ivan Pereverzev
This is a story of two cavalry generals: Hugh Kilpatrick on the Union side and Joseph Wheeler on the Confederate side. They had known each other since West Point, and did not like each other. The war only deepened their personal animosity. The story is also about a woman who could lose everything at any moment. A plantation owner and widow, her life is torn apart by the approaching Union forces. Her home is raided and her teenage son has joined the militia to fight for the Confederacy.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Starring:
Tripp Courtney, Darlene Donofrio
This Documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Short, Documentary
Starring:
John Huston, Mark W. Clark
A planet controlled y a computer is on a direct collision course with Earth in this film featuring above-average space scenes and special effects (for its time). Hollywood veteran Claude Rains stars in this Italian-produced sci-fi tale.
Rating: NR
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Claude Rains, Bill Carter