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by Frank Showalter

The Sea Bat

D+: 2 stars (out of 5)
1930 | United States | 58 min | More...

Escaped convict Bickford arrives in a small Caribbean village posing as a priest and gets tangled up with local vamp Torres who’s promised herself to any man who can slay the giant Manta-Ray that killed her brother. Great production and Bickford’s entertaining performance can’t overcome Torres’s incessant emoting. Boris Karloff plays a lecherous sailor with a couple of lines in a forgettable part.

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  • Watched on
    Thu, Oct 22, 2020 via TCM
  • Watched on
    Tue, Jun 29, 2021 via Watch TCM

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