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The Bat (1959)

Name: The Bat
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1959
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Sutton

195980 minCrime & MysteryStrong rights evidence

The Bat (1959) is an 80-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Crane Wilbur.

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About The Bat (1959)

The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel, The Circular Staircase, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat.

Mystery author Cornelia Van Gorder rents The Oaks, a summer home in a small town, from local bank president John Fleming. While on a hunting trip with his physician, Dr. Malcolm Wells, Fleming confesses to stealing over $1 million in negotiable securities from the bank. He offers to split the money with Wells in return for help faking his own death and threatens to kill him if he does not comply. Wells shoots Fleming and covers up the murder.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Bat (1959 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Crane Wilbur
Cast includes: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Sutton, Harvey Stephens, Gavin Gordon, Robert B. Williams
Country: United States
Based on: The Bat

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Airs on

Graveyard Shift - CH 4, Horror TV
Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Based on 1920 play / 1908 novel (PD).
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Based on 1920 play / 1908 novel (PD).
Source: Internet Archive

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