The Bat (1926 film)

The Bat is a 1926 film about a masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat and terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
 * Directed by Roland West. Written by Julien Josephson, based on The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood and the novel The Circular Staircase by Rinehart.

A laugh with every gasp!

Miss Cornelia Van Gorder

 * When you want to fool Auntie, dear, don't bring a gardener with manicured fingernails.

Lizzie Allen

 * That Jap butler gives me the willies. The Flemings threw him in with the lease, but I'd throw him OUT!


 * The rapping leads right into the haunted ballroom!

Dialogue

 * Lizzie Allen: This is the happy home of the Heebee-Jeebees. Doors slam loose feet roam around lights go out!
 * Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: The lights go out because they're having trouble at the power house.
 * Lizzie Allen: For twenty years I've stood by you through Socialism, Theosophism and Rheumatism; but I draw the line at Spookism!


 * Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: [the lights go out, calling up the stairs] LIZZIE!
 * Lizzie Allen: [with a newspaper in her mouth, swinging a bear trap at the window. Miss Van Gorder comes in and she stops and takes the paper out of her mouth] I see by the paper that the Bat's in the neighborhood. I'm setting a bear trap for him.


 * Detective Moletti: What's your full name?
 * Lizzie Allen: Lizzie Allen - whether I'm full or not.


 * Detective Moletti: How old are you?
 * Lizzie Allen: Twenty-two.
 * Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: She's forty!


 * Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: You'd better go with him.
 * Detective Anderson: No use taking unnecessary chances. One is enough to sacrifice!

Cast

 * Emily Fitzroy — Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
 * Jack Pickford — Brooks Bailey
 * Jewel Carmen — Miss Dale Ogden
 * Robert McKim — Dr. H. E. Wells
 * Arthur Housman — Richard Fleming
 * Louise Fazenda — Lizzie Allen
 * Tullio Carminati — Detective Moletti
 * Eddie Gribbon — Detective Anderson
 * George Beranger — Gideon Bell
 * Charles Herzinger — Courtleigh Fleming
 * Sojin Kamiyama — Billy the Butler
 * Lee Shumway — the Unknown