A master thief, dressed as a monstrous bat, haunts the corners of a rambling mansion whose denisens set about uncovering his identity. “The Bat Whispers had been done before as a silent, also by Roland West, and again since as a lesser Vincent Price vehicle. This first talkie version, despite being designed to take advantage of the temporary boom in 70mm wide-screens, was somewhat a flop commercially. The Bat Whispers remained resolutely a movie, being far more concerned with pictorial inventiveness and lighting than with being a talkie--this at a time when stage adaptations were all the rage. A great many scenes in the film directly derive from Fritz Lang. The remarkably impressionistic bank robbery scene is pure Lang, as is the black-gloved hand snuffing out the candle, a happy borrowing from Metropolis.” William K. Everson