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        <![CDATA[ Greetings,This topic represents my first post to the present group of respondents.Poverty Row Horrors features a chapter devoted to PRC's 1940 production The Devil Bat.An appendix to that splendid book displays a poll, contributed to by a who's who of horror genre experts, that appraises Bela Lugosi's Monogram Studios series of films. Our author mentions that The Devil Bat may have been rated first in the poll, if not for the fact that is was not a Monogram title.Devil Bat first came to my... ]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Re: October, 1940  ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I would agree if it were say an 'A' actor like Flynn but Lugosi as much as I enjoy him was 'B' all the way. Also remember we're dealing with Poverty Row Company the bottom of the barrel. I enjoyed the movie either way.Tom ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ And on a really big scale, a few years back when Jim Carrey and Tom Cruise could still command $20 million a pic, they were definitely making movies that came in for less than $200 million.&nbsp; Ya pay for the name above the title and the face on the pos...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/714200/October-1940#reply-714200">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Sure it could.  He was the name value of the film-- without his presence, what did they have?  A phony bat on a wire and a bunch of anonymous actors in an unmysterious mystery.

Even if Greg Mank's budget figure for the film is accurate (I'd think it's ...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/714188/October-1940#reply-714188">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ As I said my figure was just a guess but considering the budget it couldn't have been $2500 or over 10% of the cost. I saw the film again last night and wrote a little piece on it.
http://sdtom.wordpress.co...5/09/the-devil-bat-1940/ ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:28:15 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The poor man really should have hired some business managers.&nbsp; Not novices who wanted to help but had little experience like Don Marlowe and Alex Gordon, but professionals. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:31:35 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hb, as his biographers attest, Bela had the problem common to many folks, rich and not-so-rich: he lived beyond his means. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Ted Newsom wrote:

The $200 figure for Lugosi is just silly. No offense, sdtom, but you have no idea what you're talking about.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lugosi's weekly salary rate was pretty consistent over a working period of twenty years.&nbsp; SON OF F is actual...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/712600/October-1940#reply-712600">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings,Very well said.Upon reflection, it is also difficult for fans who muddle through a more or less ordinary existence to imagine what it was really like to be a celebrity.Lugosi's life rocketed through an amazing arc from his 1882 Hungarian birth. ...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/708827/October-1940#reply-708827">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:08:57 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Bingo.

Poor Bela seems, really, as baseless a canard as the similar Poor Orson. Both men lived large - and largely the way that they themselves chose.

Both seem to have enjoyed life, and both left behind a body of work that still gives joy.

"Poor...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/708156/October-1940#reply-708156">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Well... what were the alternatives to him at the time, to making some large-sized paychecks for a week or two at Monogram two or three times a year, plus anything he could pick up for stage tours? Had he been under long-term contract to, say, MGM or Warne...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/708113/October-1940#reply-708113">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings,You have underscored a point that I continue to make.Even with inflation brought on by the Second World War, families could live quite well on $160.00 per month. Mr. Lugosi's lifestyle dictated the need for steady cash flow. From on-set photogra...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/707983/October-1940#reply-707983">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:53:07 PST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[ greg mank wrote:According to information I gathered while researching BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF, the cost of THE DEVIL BAT was all of $21, 371.45.

I don't have Lugosi's precise salary but I'd guess it would have been $2500 to $3500. The entire film...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/707660/October-1940#reply-707660">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Grant wrote:I was very fond of Matinee at the Bijou. Before things like YouTube came along, there weren't that many places you could see things THAT obscure. But the thing that always stays with me is the Rudy Vallee song (I'm not sure of its name) that w...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/707588/October-1940#reply-707588">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Practically speaking, with the number of location changes in DEVIL BAT, whomever said "three days" is fullacrap, Greg.  For that kind of money you get the studio elements (minus the exteriors) of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.  5-6 days, perhaps, plus an additio...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/706594/October-1940#reply-706594">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings,Nice to have experts weigh in on my topic!Best regards,Andy. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ According to information I gathered while researching BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF, the cost of THE DEVIL BAT was all of $21, 371.45.

I don't have Lugosi's precise salary but I'd guess it would have been $2500 to $3500. The entire film was shot within...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/706579/October-1940#reply-706579">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ The $200 figure for Lugosi is just silly. No offense, sdtom, but you have no idea what you're talking about.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lugosi's weekly salary rate was pretty consistent over a working period of twenty years.&nbsp; SON OF F is actually an anomaly, a situ...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/706484/October-1940#reply-706484">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings,Wow, $200.00, huh?In November, 1938, Lugosi pulled down a weekly salary of $500.00 for the duration of Son of Frankenstein's shooting schedule. That film shot for about thirty working days.So, Devil Bat was shot in the course of a couple of week...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/706319/October-1940#reply-706319">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Making an educated guess I would say Lugosi got $200 total for making the film.
Thomas ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Wouldn`t doubt it. Karloff was making cheapies up to 1940. Then he went to Broadway for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE and he was spared further cheapjack stuff.   Tho I`m not saying his Columbia/RKO/Universal stuff at the time was all A picture quality. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings,This topic represents my first post to the present group of respondents.Poverty Row Horrors features a chapter devoted to PRC's 1940 production The Devil Bat.An appendix to that splendid book displays a poll, contributed to by a who's who of hor...<br /><a href="http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/37109/October-1940">Read More</a> ]]></description>

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