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==Remakes==
Film remakes:
*Director Roland West remade his film four years later as ''[[The Bat Whispers]]'' (1930), with [[Chester Morris]] and [[Una Merkel]]. A 1959 remake, ''[[The Bat (1959 film)|The Bat]]'', starred [[Vincent Price]] and [[Agnes Moorehead]].
*A 1959 remake, ''[[The Bat (1959 film)|The Bat]]'', starring [[Vincent Price]] and [[Agnes Moorehead]], was released by [[Allied Artists]].
 
TV adaptations include:
*''Broadway Television Theatre'' (1953) TV series
*''[[Dow Hour of Great Mysteries]]'' (1960) TV series, with [[Helen Hayes]], [[Margaret Hamilton]], and [[Jason Robards]].
*''Der Spinnenmörder'' (1978) German TV movie
 
==Connection to Bob Kane's "Batman"==
[[Comic-book]] creator [[Bob Kane]] said in his 1989 [[autobiography]] ''[[Batman and Me]]'' that the villain of the 1930 film ''[[The Bat Whispers]]'' was an inspiration for his character [[Batman]].<ref>[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/391/ The Haunting of Robert Kane!], dialbforblog.com, September 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2011.</ref>