Devil Bat's Daughter
by Frank Wisbar
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Actor: John James, Michael Hale, Molly Lamont, Nolan Leary, Rosemary La PlancheDirector: Frank Wisbar
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Devil Bat's Daughter
Movie Review: Great PRC Cheapie.
Summary: 3 Stars
A great PRC release from 1946. Fun to watch. The audio quality however is really bad, even for PRC movies.
Summary of Devil Bat's Daughter
DEVIL BAT'S DAUGHTER - DVD MovieFor a working definition of Hollywood obscurity, you couldn't do much better than the career of Frank Wisbar, a gifted German filmmaker who found himself, like his fellow émigré Edgar G. Ulmer, under contract at Producers Releasing Corporation, the most desperately poor of the Poverty Row studios of the 1940s. Typical of his hopeless assignments, Devil Bat's Daughter, released in 1946, was the totally unnecessary sequel to one of PRC's few successes, the 1940 Devil Bat with Bela Lugosi; this time, it's Rosemary La Planche--Miss America of 1941!--who falls under suspicion in a series of mysterious killings... has she inherited her father's homicidal instincts? Made during Hollywood's first flirtation with Freudian psychology, the picture is replete with soft-focus dream sequences (with some unconvincing bat effects lifted from the first film) and vague--extremely vague--implications of incest. It's virtually thrill-free, but Wisbar doesn't shrink from his duty, doing his damnedest to come up with creative camera angles and some way of imparting emotion to his waxworks cast. Like many of the Ulmer films of the period, Devil Bat's Daughter bears a strangely touching testimony to the strength of the human spirit--in spite of everything, Wisbar carries on. --Dave Kehr
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