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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:16 pm Post subject: Devil Bat's Daughter (1946) |
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A slightly misleading title: she's not the Devil Bat's daughter, she's the offspring of the mad scientist who created it.
Bela Lugosi, star of 1941's "The Devil Bat", sent out his flying horror on missions of murder until he became the victim of his own creation. In this sequel, Lugosi's daughter (Rosemary La Planche, Miss America of 1941) is afraid she's either losing her mind or being possessed by the spirit of her late father, so she seeks professional help from psychiatrist Eddie Kane.
Unfortunately, Kane isn't trying to cure Rosemary, he's trying to drive her crazy. And, wonder of wonders, it turns out that her father wasn't a villain after all -- he was framed by the real murderer of all those victims slain by the Devil Bat.
This brazen contradiction of the first film can at least be applauded for its nerve if not its logic, but director Frank Wisbar fails to pump much suspense into the PRC studios horror film. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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IMDB has this interesting item.
~ This was a sequel to one of PRC's biggest hits, "The Devil Bat" (1940) that was released six years earlier. However, it ignores the plot of the original film. Nina is finally relieved to learn that her father, Dr. Paul Carruthers, is innocent of being a "vampire" and "The Devil Bat." In the original film, Dr. Paul Carruthers, played by Bela Lugosi, was gleefully guilty of creating a huge "devil bat" and arranging for it to kill people.
Isn't it curious that studios will fraudulently promote a movie by using a title that presents it as a sequel to a popular movie . . . and then abandon the original plot entirely.
The trailer for this movie I posted a few years ago is gone, but Youtube has the full movie now.
_________ DEVIL BAT'S DAUGHTER - full movie
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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