Stars: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon Director/Writer: Crane Wilbur In a creaky haunted house with a hidden fortune of stolen money, bodies pile up as a mysterious prowler known as "the Bat" tries to uncover the loot!
I’m very thrilled, honest…. It’s nice seeing good movies and younger versions of the film stars I knew growing up. Last film I saw in theater was Vanilla Sky. Seven dollar tickets for me and the wife to be… 4 dollar pop corn and 3 dollar sodas. Almost 30 bucks for yet another over hyped movie?! Last film I likely enjoyed at the theater was Karate Kid. Enjoyed the movie… following 5 weeks at 9pm and 11 we’d park near the theater and watch everyone karate fight for free. Pretty much what my friends and I did when we saw it. Fantastic! Oh yeah! Watching the girls giggle and roll their eyes…. Can’t remember anything as funny and predictable after a movie.
This movie has it all. A haunted house, trap doors, secret walls, a fire, many murders, lost money, bank heist, a creature on the loose half man half animal a.k.a. The Bat, troublesome phone, people coming in and out with the most outstanding characters Vincent Price and Agnes Morehead and continuous suspense. A fun thriller!
As long as I see Vincent Price, I am watching the movie. No modern actors are like the actors of the old days. I am in my 20s and I would watch a black & white movie anyday over the modern movies 💕😍
Agnes Moorehead had it all as an actress.... She had class, style, and old world manners... She coincidentally is buried in one of the most unusual places.... She is buried in Dayton Ohio which was an ancestral center for her... She also had a masters degree in English and public speaking, She had the opportunity to work with Orson Wells as well as well known fellow actor Joseph Cotton and let us also remember that famous actor Vincent Price. (the master of the macabre).... Rest In Peace Mrs Moorehead.... the world misses you....
@@jeansenn2831 I must say you've made a good choice, it's been on my phone for a long time I've got half an hour left, I've always liked Vincent Price I've never seen this , I can tell you now if you haven't seen it, you won't be let down,💰 & waiting 🤔till that dark&👀 spooky ☠️🪓🙄🙈night 🌛🪔is brilliant 🤗
Besides being a brilliant actress who carried herself with class & dignity, Moorehead had the greatest single resumé credit of all time: "I was in Citizen Kane".
@@jupiterlegrand4817 I've got half an hour left this is a great movie, I believe everything you said, & she is the only Agnes that I have seen or known with that name that was attractive, you may know do you think that was her hair even though Long braid, and yes I agree her and price are brilliant, priceless, definitely the true meaning of Stars.
What a Gem of an Suspense thriller🎥. Moorhead and Price with a supporting cast make this a enjoyable treat! Keeps you on your toes till the end. I love black and white films!!!
Excellent movie, and clever plot. Agnes Morehead was sublime, as was Vincent Price and the others. What a pleasant surprise to see little Darla of "The Little Rascals" fame as an adult.
Thanks for the movie. Great one. I know Morehead's voice when I hear it instantly. Love her presence and look. She was a grand dame, even on Bewitched where I first saw her.
Man we I saw the suggestion on my RU-vid page, didn't think twice, already here checking out Thanks for uploading, love these old movies, black and white screen, lovely Sometimes I think I was born with 89 years already haha
I love watching Vincent Price and peter laury. The movie where they had the wine contest together is my favorite movie with them both in it. I always love to watch that movie with a glass of wine in my hand. It is so relaxing to me and that movie is got a lot of funny moments in it to.
lorre gulps down a pint of wine in one go! a horrified price says but you are supposed to sip it swill it round you mouth taste the favour and spit it out.lorre replies lissen you do it your way ill do it mine!
@@mikekemp9877 I love that part. Also side note when Charles Manson was alive and planning on murdering a few celebrities. He was going to murder Peter Lorrie's Daughter but when he found out who she was he decided not to murder her just because of who her father was. So they did not murder her.
@@mr.garlicman3134 thats odd because one of lorres daughters was nearly killed by the night strangler richard ramirez when he went solo after parting with his cousin.she was called by him as she advertised for a house sitter but apolice car outside put him off! He then went to the pacific northwest where he used the same ruse killed the girls and got caught.
Yep, the secretary is Darla Hood, most famous as The Little Rascal's Darla. Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead (Endora in Bewitched) in 'The Bat'. One of my fave 50's horror/mystery movies. With Gavin Gordon, outstanding character actor with 109 movie and TV credits over 40 years. Excellent video quality by the way.
Thank you for posting. I've seen many of Vincent Price's films over the years but not this one. It was a lot of fun. But honestly, I love his cheesy films like the Dr.Phibes films the most. He showed us all his love of comedy and never took himself so seriously. Just had fun with these pulp films.
Cannot believe I gave up on this film after 20 Minutes!!!! Watching it again now and thoroughly enjoying. Mind you anything with Agnes Morrehead and Vincent Price is always excellent. Thanks for the upload.
Love the movie, love the silly plot, love the actors, love the quality of the print but wow . . . love that crazy music, man. Fantastic B-movie package.
In a 1987 interview on Sinister Image (1987), Vincent Price revealed that the stage version of "The Bat" had terrified him when he was a child and he accepted the role in this film because he thought the filmmakers "would revive it and bring it up to date," but he was disappointed with the final result because "it wasn't a good script." - The fourth film adaptation of the novel and stage play.
Great horror movie. Love Agnes Morehead. She had a Ph.D in English. Also first time I saw Darla Hood(Little Rascals) as an adult in a movie. Agnes Moorehead's greatest appearance however was on the masterpiece, ingenious Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders" which was 99% silent except her grunts and the fantastic ending with approx. 30 seconds of talk(not hers).
@@stephenperretti8847: I'm old but not that old from the radio era of the 1930s and 1940s. So I can't attest to your opinion. However I disagree since her Twilight Zone acting was superb as well as that episode probably I'd say in top 5 episodes of TZ along with the outstanding Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up with the great but unknown John Hoyt!!!
@@johnc2438: This morning Monday 9/20/21 on SyFy channel as every Monday and only Monday beginning at 4 AM till 6:30 AM they show the Twilight Zone-they had The Invaders(1962) with Agnes Morehead - completely silent except her grunts until the last minute when a small astronaut Earthling starts talking. I've seen all the episodes since about 1964 when I was 16 at least 500 times but this morning I heard something I missed all these almost 55 years: the Earth astronaut frantically speaks to Earth that the other astronaut Grisham is dead(Agnes Morehead killed him and is destroying the spaceship with an ax). Unbelievably and coincidentally almost the same name Grissom and two other astronauts died differently in a capsule fire 4 years later in 1965!!! It's an unreal prediction that could only come of course from the twilight zone!!!
@@chirelle.alanalooney8609: Come on! You can see it if you look for the Twilight Zone on several public channels especially SyFy and when they have a Twilight Zone marathon. Now to answer your question yes that's where she destroys the space ship and kills the astronauts who are from Earth who have landed on a planet of human like giants(Agnes) but they're not human!
AWWWSEME CLASSIC B&W HORROR FLICK..HEY THIS WAS RELEASED IN 1959...N3VER GET RIRED OF WATCHING MOVIES LIKE THIS ONE...ILL BE 54 IN OCTOBER..IM OLD SCHOOL..YA REALLY NEED MOVIES LIKE THIS TO LIKE ..IDK...BRING YA TO A CLASSIC PLACE 👌👍✌😁
7.5/10 A Pretty Interesting Mystery Thriller with just enough Red Herrings To Keep Your Mind Busy Speculating, Though What Really Makes This Film Unusually Fascinating would be the fact that the Female Castmembers are granted more Character than just being hysterical Damsels in Distress
This movie had more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at. The person that was the least likely suspect turned out to be the Bat. Was sure caught off guard. This movie is a real classic.
I was 9 yrs old the summer it was released. A bat flew into our house and I was terrified...because when the bat flies... This is the first time I've seen the movie. All that terror over a delightfully silly movie. Love the cast.
Agnes Moorehead was spectacular, I thought she was so lovely & exotic looking when she was younger & I loved her as Endora & thought she was lovely still.
Agnes Moorhead is always hot and has a rocking body. If you saw her in a bikini you would drool. Scratching her long nails on your back with sun tan lotion on the sand. Erecting your beach umbrella.
2020! Bat soup is off my menu for now with COVID19 pandemic running rampant. Love the B&W classics especially the Friday Flick Fright Night!! & Mr Vincent Price.
When the kids were younger Friday evenings I would let them have a creature feature night. The first time I played this movie for them an actual bat got in the house somehow and started to fly around...it disappeared after 15 or so minutes...Now that is cosmic...
Fantastic ! This movie is exceptional. In most of the mystery movies, any character may be the culprit but not someone from the police. Exceptional intelligence is required to plot such a movie. It also indicates the plotter's sensitiveness & fearlessness regarding a grave problem of the human society. Message of the Film- The police force do contains sadist, money hungry & criminal minded people. The human society have a tendency to separate white-collar professionals from crime though in reality most of the dangerous crimes had been planned by white-collar people. The police forces need to be monitored by competent professionals to ensure it's purity. It is too unfortunate if the priest himself is possessed by the demon !
Yes, a bit creaky, but I had a really good time. Wouldn't have been much without Moorehead and Price. The rest of the cast I'm thinking, "Didn't I see him/her in that cheesy movie about the giant killer ants/moths/grasshoppers?"
Years ago my daughter leased an older house with transoms over each bedroom. Built in the early 40s we figured. Wall heaters, old times pedestal lavatory and footed tub, etc.
