The Bat Whispers (1930)

Cornelia van Gorder: [Anderson picks up a gun after Fleming is killed] Why that's my revolver!
Detective Anderson: [inspects it] One shot fired.
Cornelia van Gorder: I fired that shot myself last night.
Detective Anderson: Nice try, Miss Van Gorder, but I'm placing your niece under arrest for the murder of Courtleigh Fleming.
Cornelia van Gorder: You can't arrest her without a coroner's verdict, and you'll have to wait on Dr. Vanrees for that.
Detective Anderson: Miss Van Gorder, when I find a need to make an arrest, I'll make it! And I won't wait for any coroner's verdict.

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Cornelia van Gorder: Who did that?
The Caretaker: I don't know... this house gets on my nerves, they won't let me sleep.
Lizzie Allen: Don't trust him, caretaker means servant... Bat!
Cornelia van Gorder: Who won't let you sleep?
The Caretaker: The ghosts... he slams doors, and there's no one there to slam them... he opens windows, and I can't see nothing... he rolls things down the stairs, and there's no one there to make them roll... that ain't all, he whispers to me, from behind the wall.
[a loud scream is heard]
The Caretaker: Listen, he's here again... stay here long enough, you'll see.
Lizzie Allen: Let's go back to the city.

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Detective Anderson: Did you do much looking around?
Detective Jones: Did I? That's just what I was doing when somebody socked me with a piano.

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Alledgedly the movie that inspired Bob Kane to create Batman.
The special effects were shot in 35mm. Process photography techniques, not optical printing, was used to make the 65mm negatives of this footage.
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