Excellent silent horror/comedy starring Jack Pickford and Jewel Carmen, who would both be involved in a great Hollywood scandal later on - Pickford dying of a drug overdose, and Carmen perjuring herself under oath during the investigation of actress Thelma Todd's death, in which her husband - "The Bat" 's director Roland West - was the chief suspect.
February 16, 1970
The Bat (1926) ***
Excellent silent horror/comedy starring Jack Pickford and Jewel Carmen, who would both be involved in a great Hollywood scandal later on - Pickford dying of a drug overdose, and Carmen perjuring herself under oath during the investigation of actress Thelma Todd's death, in which her husband - "The Bat" 's director Roland West - was the chief suspect.
