Biography
The late American screenwriter John Thomas Neville should not be confused with contemporary British actor
John Neville. From 1928 onward, John Thomas Neville scripted dozens of low-budget melodramas and Westerns. He spent much of his time at Columbia in the 1930s, then moved onward (if not upward) to Monogram. John Thomas Neville's best-known endeavor was the
Bela Lugosi opus
The Devil Bat (1940), remade under Neville's imprimatur as
The Flying Serpent in 1947. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide