The Bat (1926) is a silent film based on the 1920 hit Broadway The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda. The story takes place in an old mansion, where people look for hidden loot while a caped killer (nicknamed "The Bat") murders them one by one.

• George Beranger - Gideon Bell
• Charles Herzinger - Courleigh Fleming
• Emily Fitzroy - Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
• Louise Fazenda - Lizzie Allen
• Arthur Housman - Richard Fleming (*as Arthur Houseman)
• Robert McKim - Dr. Wells
• Jack Pickford - Brooks Bailey
• Jewel Carmen - Miss Dale Ogden
• Sojin Kamiyama - Billy, the Butler
• Tullio Carminati - Detective Moletti
• Eddie Gribbon - Detective Anderson
• Lee Shumway - The Unknown

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, 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

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.^[1]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Bat (1926 film).

• The Bat at IMDb
• The Bat (1926) at SilentEra
• ​The Bat​ at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Bat is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive (version with soundtrack)
• The Bat at AllMovie
• The Bat (1926) on YouTube