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Jean Yarbrough – The Devil Bat [+commentaries] (1940)

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Synopsis:
Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers’ family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.

Extras:
1. Commentary by horror film historian Richard Harland Smith
2. Commentary by Ted Newsom and Bela Lugosi, Jr.

1.69GB | 1h 08m | 786×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/EF7C75D0EE048F6/The_Devil_Bat_(1940)_–_Jean_Yarbrough.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Portuguese (muxed)

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James W. Horne – The Spider Returns (1941)

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The Spider Returns (1941) is a Columbia movie serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fourteenth of the 57 serials released by Columbia and a sequel to its 1938 serial The Spider’s Web. The first episode runs 32 minutes; the rest are about 17 minutes each.

Synopsis :
Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth was formerly the masked vigilante, The Spider. Wentworth brings The Spider out of retirement to help his friend, police commissioner Kirk (Kirkpatrick in the pulps), fight a dangerous maniac. This new enemy is The Gargoyle, a mysterious crimelord who threatens America with sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck national defense.
(From Wikipedia)

Chapter titles :
1. The Stolen Plans
2. The Fatal Time-Bomb
3. The Secret Meeting
4. The Smoke Dream
5. The Gargoyle’s Trail
6. The X-Ray Eye
7. The Radio Boomerang
8. The Mysterious Message
9. The Cup of Doom
10. The X-Ray Belt
11. Lips Sealed by Murder
12. A Money Bomb
13. Almost a Confession
14. Suspicious Telegrams
15. The Payoff

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Dave O’Brien – Sure Cures (1946)

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Quote:
This is another of the Pete Smith Specialities, which was co-written and directed by Dave O’Brien, who plays the poor fool with the hiccoughs. He tries various “remedies” to “cure” himself (some of which Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition might have applauded) to no avail. It’s all great fun, for everyone but the poor twit. O’Brien frequently played a character not likely to be joining Mensa any time soon in these shorts. This runs on TCM as filler fairly often and virtually every March as part of the “31 Days of Oscar”. Most recommended.

131MB | 10:40.176 | 592×432 | avi
https://nitroflare.com/view/AB470E4261E8419/Sure_Cures.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

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