Restored UCLA Film Archive Print introduced by Robert Gitt (Admission: $8.) "For many years The Bat was one of the most elusive of missing films. The first of three movie versions of the Broadway musical was wildly successful, particularly noted for providing a non-stop succession of shocks...It still impresses with its genuinely creepy 'old dark house' plot-line, bizarre sets and camerawork, and the sheer outrageousness of its thrill sequences. Seeing the master criminal The Bat in action, scaling buildings and leaping from great heights while clad in cape-like raiment and sporting a fearsome mask as disguise, one easily can understand how impressionable youth Bob Kane was inspired to create a similarly garbed and athletic man of mystery a decade later, although Kane placed (his Batman) on the side of law and order... Exhibitors were urged to go all out in selling the film. Unfortunately, tonight's audience will not see the lobby transformed into a bat cave; nor will a shower of bat-flyers be dropped from a bat-plane...What you will see is a superb example of the need-and the justification-for film preservation." --Jere Guldin, UCLA Film Archive Dennis James will perform his own score for The Bat. Robert Gitt is Preservation Officer, UCLA Film and Television Archive.