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The Bat

192626 minUnited States
Mystery

Synopsis

A costumed thief known as the Bat brings a trail of robbery and murder to an isolated mansion. Its summer tenant, her frightened maid and a group of visitors become entangled in the search for missing money and a concealed room. Clues and disguises make almost everyone in the house suspect.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
87:12
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Original: Roland West Restoration: Undercrank Productions · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRoland West

Inspirations

Roland West adapted Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood's successful play. Its ancestry reaches back to Rinehart's novel The Circular Staircase, carrying the elaborate house mystery through several forms.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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  • George Beranger — DW Griffith (Life time: na); Original publication : 1915 Immediate source : http://www.screeningthepast.com/2011/11/missing-in-action-caught-on-film-silent-film-actor-andre-de-beranger-goes-to-war/ · Public domain
  • Emily Fitzroy — unknown (Universal); eBay · Public domain
  • Jewel Carmen — Albert Witzel · Public domain
  • Louise Fazenda — Trailer screenshot Licencing information : https://web.archive.org/web/20080321033709/http://www.sabucat.com/?pg=copyright and http://www.creativeclearance.com/guidelines.html#D2; The Casino Murder Case trailer · Public domain

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