+++SPOILER ALERT+++Colorful Characters, A Cool Sea Beast, And A Horrible Ending, that sums up my impression of the Sea Bat which I watched on Turner Classic Movies. This film, at a mere 75 minutes long, could have been a classic and it may be to many still but the way they ended it is so cornball and 1930'ish that the film doesn't hold up. But until that ending you have some of the most colorful characters you will ever see and there is a "sea bat" that actually looks pretty cool except that it has a blow hole like a whale. I watched this because it has Boris Karloff in it, but his part is very minor, however I am really happy I watched it because I noticed I really enjoyed 2 films staring Charles Bickford, this one and Anna Christie, so I'm going to start to search for more early 1930's Charles Bickford films as they look juicy and hard core. I also had the hots for Raquel Torres, she looks like a real life Betty Boop here, too bad she wasn't in more stuff, she's smoking hot. I was going to rate this lower then a 7 but after thinking about it all even with the cornball ending (he ends the film saying he's going to finish his time at Devil's Island and will leave Raquel Torres, yeah right! How cornball is that?), I was immensely entertained by almost everything in this film so I'm giving it a 7, highly recommended for us early talking film buffs. BTW, I asked my wife, "How do you think he got the preacher outfit?" She said "maybe he bought it at a priest store?" LOL, oh my, too funny. I was thinking more along the lines of he killed a preacher, lol. Another spoiler, they never killed the Sea Bat, hurray for the monster!
Review of The Sea Bat
The Sea Bat
(1930)
Colorful Characters, A Cool Sea Beast, And A Horrible Ending
23 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers