Title: The Bat Whispers
Content:  The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926. An early talkie and one of the first widescreen films, West financed the cinematography, which required two cameramen, several techniques and was once a lost film but thanks to the duplicate filmstock was restored in 1988.
Title: The Bat Whispers
Content:  An early talkie, this film is the second film version of the 1920 hit Broadway play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, based on Roberts 1908 book The Circular Staircase. The first film version of the play, The Bat (1926), was also directed by Roland West. Just as in the play and the first film, people explore an old mansion looking for a hidden treasure while a caped killer picks them off one by one. This film is noted by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for some elements of the Batman character, which he co-created with Bill Finger. The film was shot in three versions: a 
Title: The Bat (play)
Content:  experiment with widescreen was a financial failure. Comic-book creator Bob Kane said in his 1989 autobiography, Batman and Me, that the villain in The Bat Whispers inspired his character Batman. Crane Wilbur wrote and directed a third adaptation of The Bat, which was released by Allied Artists on August 9, 1959. This version emphasized horror, with the Bat (played by Gavin Gordon) ripping out the throats of his victims. Dr. Wells (played by horror star Vincent Price) had a more prominent role, and Agnes Moorehead co-starred as Cornelia. This adaptation received mixed reviews when released. It is widely available because its copyright expired, placing it in the public domain.
Title: The Bat Whispers
Content:  Comic-book creator Bob Kane said in his 1989 autobiography Batman and Me that the villain of The Bat Whispers was an inspiration for his character Batman.
Title: The Bat Whispers
Content: As credited in order of appearance: Chance Ward as Police Lieutenant ; Richard Tucker as Mr Bell ; Wilson Benge as The Butler ; DeWitt Jennings as Police Captain ; Sidney D'Albrook as Police Sergeant ; S.E. Jennings as The Man in Black Mask ; Grayce Hampton as Cornelia Van Gorder ; Maude Eburne as Lizzie Allen ; Spencer Charters as The Caretaker ; Una Merkel as Dale Van Gorder ; William Bakewell as Brook ; Gustav von Seyffertitz as Dr Venrees ; Chester Morris as Detective Anderson ; Hugh Huntley as Richard Fleming ; Charles Dow Clark as Detective Jones ; Ben Bard as The Unknown  
Title: The Bat (play)
Content:  sound films, West remade the story four years later as The Bat Whispers. The remake, released by United Artists on November 29, 1930, starred Chester Morris as the Bat and Una Merkel as Dale; British actress Grayce Hampton played Cornelia. West experimented with early widescreen technology by having two cinematographers film different versions of the movie, one with a standard 35 mm camera, the other with a new 65 mm "Magnifilm" camera. Like the earlier silent film adaptation, The Bat Whispers was considered lost until the UCLA Film and Television Archive restored both the standard and widescreen versions from rediscovered negatives in 1988. The film received mixed reviews and 
Title: The Bat (1926 film)
Content: Director Roland West remade his film four years later as The Bat Whispers (1930), with Chester Morris and Una Merkel, and also released by United Artists. ; A 1959 remake, The Bat, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead, was released by Allied Artists. 
Title: Whispers (Koontz novel)
Content:  A movie adaptation of Whispers was released in 1990. Directed by Douglas Jackson, the film starred Victoria Tennant as Hilary, Chris Sarandon as Tony, and Jean LeClerc as Bruno. The film was shot in the fall of 1989 on a budget of $3.5 million for Incorporated Television Company. Although planned for a theatrical release, the film went direct-to-video via Live Home Video in the United States. The label Scorpion re-released the film on DVD in 2012.
Title: Bats (film)
Content:  Bats is a 1999 American horror film directed by Louis Morneau, written by John Logan and produced by Bradley Jenkel and Louise Rosner. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton and Leon. It was the first film released by Destination Films. A hostile swarm of genetically mutated bats terrorize a local Texas town, and it is up to zoologist Sheila Casper, who teams up with town Sheriff Emmett Kimsey, to exterminate the creatures before they take more lives. The film grossed $10 million against a $5 million budget. The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus calls it "neither scary nor creepy".
Title: Bats (musical)
Content:  Bats is a musical written in 1983 by two Australian writers, Ian Dorricott and Simon Denver. It has been produced numerous times by school groups.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Bat Whispers?
Answer: Roland West.
Roland Van Zimmer.