The Sea Bat is a 1930 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford.

The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, who died on August 26, 1930.

[2] By August 31, 1929, Victor Fleming had taken over as the director, but was replaced by Hunt Stromberg by October 2, 1929, and finally by Wesley Ruggles, as of January 20, 1930.

[1] Some contemporary reports state that Lionel Barrymore as an additional director, but his name is not mentioned in any trades at the time of the production.

[2] From retrospective reviews, Michael R. Pitts stated in his book Thrills Untapped that despite scenery and cinematography, the film was slow-paced and "a pale combination of Sadie Thompson (1928) and White Shadows in the South Seas (1928).