The Bat (1926)
1926 · Silent film · 85 min · dir. Roland West
A laugh with every gasp!
- comedy horror
- silent film
- Mystery
Synopsis
The Bat is a 1926 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda. The film is based on the 1920 Broadway hit play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Roland West
- Writer
- Julien Josephson
- Cinematography
- Arthur Edeson
- Studio
- Roland West Productions
- Released
- 1926-03-14
- Running time
- 85 minutes
Cast & crew
Roland West Director
Tullio Carminati
Robert McKim
Sōjin Kamiyama
Emily Fitzroy
Lee Shumway
Jewel Carmen
Arthur Housman
George Beranger
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Fast paced fun little flick! · gl1200phil · 2010-10-30
Might be the second best, after "Nosferatu", silent movie that I have seen. I found it very entertaining and have watched it a couple of times, something I rarely do! Moves along quite nicely. A lot of the feature length silent movies are paced rather slow, as some might say of "Nosferatu", in comparison with the later "talkies". Seems as movies get more and more recent, the faster moving they have become. Short attention spans?? For a lot of the old silent movies, one must appreciate the genre and the slower pace, at least for the non-comedy type. However, most of the comedy silents were one…
