--- title: 'The Bat Whispers (1930)' type: 'film' director: 'Roland West' released: '1930-01-01' runtime_minutes: 83 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-bat-whispers-1930' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020668/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Bat Whispers (1930) 1930 · 83 min · Drama, Mystery · United States ## Synopsis The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926. An early talkie and one of the first widescreen films, West financed the cinematography, which required two cameramen and several techniques. It was considered a lost film for many years, but was restored from duplicate filmstock in 1988. As a work published in 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026. ## Credits - **Director:** [Roland West](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-west) - **Screenplay:** [Roland West](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-west) - **Original Music Composer:** [Hugo Riesenfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-riesenfeld) - **Producer:** [Joseph M. Schenck](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-m-schenck) - **Director of Photography:** [Ray June](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-june) ## Cast - [Sidney D'Albrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-d-albrook) - [William Bakewell](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-bakewell) - [DeWitt Clarke Jennings](https://cinepixo.com/people/dewitt-clarke-jennings) - [Una Merkel](https://cinepixo.com/people/una-merkel) - [Gustav von Seyffertitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-von-seyffertitz) - [Richard Tucker](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-tucker) - [Spencer Charters](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-charters) - [Maude Eburne](https://cinepixo.com/people/maude-eburne) - [Ben Bard](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-bard) - [Chester Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/chester-morris) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-bat-whispers-1930 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3985804); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.