IMDb plot summary: A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Directed by Roland West. Starring Chester Morris, Una Merkel, and William Bakewell.
The Bat Whispers focuses in on a house that finds itself at the center of a series of crimes, including a bank robber and a mysterious thief known only as "the Bat." The inhabitants of the house try to solve the mysteries as they arise. This is based on a play, and this is exactly the kind of play I could see a high school latching onto to perform -- lots of distinct characters, lots of fun twists and turns, some fun almost farcical moments of confusion. But in the end, it really didn't land that well. What I liked most about it was the lead character, the middle-aged rich woman who owns the house, and while you expect her to mostly be snobby and prudish, she ends up being one of the more competent detectives among the group. There are also some fun eerie shots of The Bat as he stalks various people in the story, and I found I wanted far more of that than I did the stories of our ensemble cast solving crimes. It's a decent movie but doesn't fully deliver on the parts that are most interesting.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Bat Whispers > The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
The Bat Whispers < Anna Karenina
The Bat Whispers < Die Hard
The Bat Whispers < You Can Count on Me
The Bat Whispers < Summer of Soul
The Bat Whispers < Hans Christian Andersen
The Bat Whispers > The Invention of Lying
The Bat Whispers < Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
The Bat Whispers < A Silent Voice
The Bat Whispers < For Pete's Sake
The Bat Whispers > Kodachrome
The Bat Whispers < Dodsworth
Final spot: #1845 out of 3753, or 51%.
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