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THE BAT WHISPERS
1930
Director
Roland West
Starring
Chester Morris
Una Merkel
Runtime
83 minutes
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"The raided bank! The haunted halls! The hidden chamber! The flitting omen of ill! The ghostly shades! The disguised strangers! The hysterical maid! And the stirring tempo of a thousand terrors, gasps and laughs!"
In his time, Roland West was one of the most ambitious visual stylists working in Hollywood. Always seeking to break the barriers of convention, he sent the camera floating, falling, and rolling through space via an eclectic mixture of cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned special effects. THE BAT WHISPERS is West's most visually adventurous film, a remake of his own 1926 old dark house thriller THE BAT.
The Bat, a master criminal who dares the police to catch him, has been terrifying the city. A bank is robbed, and the home of the bank president becomes the center of mysterious happenings. Amidst thrills, chills and laughs, the stolen money is discovered, and the Bat's secret identity is revealed! The plot is lunacy, but there are images here that seem to have escaped from the collective unconscious.
THE BAT WHISPERS was shot using an experimental format called Magnifilm—a 65mm widescreen process that pre-dates CinemaScope by decades—but was soon after cropped and cut down, unable to be seen in its original form for decades. But original elements were finally located by Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film Archives and the original 65mm Magnifilm version of has been beautifully retored to its original glory!
In his time, Roland West was one of the most ambitious visual stylists working in Hollywood. Always seeking to break the barriers of convention, he sent the camera floating, falling, and rolling through space via an eclectic mixture of cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned special effects. THE BAT WHISPERS is West's most visually adventurous film, a remake of his own 1926 old dark house thriller THE BAT.
The Bat, a master criminal who dares the police to catch him, has been terrifying the city. A bank is robbed, and the home of the bank president becomes the center of mysterious happenings. Amidst thrills, chills and laughs, the stolen money is discovered, and the Bat's secret identity is revealed! The plot is lunacy, but there are images here that seem to have escaped from the collective unconscious.
THE BAT WHISPERS was shot using an experimental format called Magnifilm—a 65mm widescreen process that pre-dates CinemaScope by decades—but was soon after cropped and cut down, unable to be seen in its original form for decades. But original elements were finally located by Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film Archives and the original 65mm Magnifilm version of has been beautifully retored to its original glory!