The 4th Bat in The Bat Collection - NBC -The Bat with Helen Hayes

The Bat Collection on the Bill Russo YouTube Channel

 consists of 4 films. Subscribe to get easy access to all 

the films. 

This episode features perhaps the best of the four most 

prominent of the Bat films - a 1960 TV version of the Bat. All

the films are derived from the 1909 book by Mary Roberts 

Rinehart, which was adapted into one of the most successful 

Broadway plays in history - and later into 3 landmark Bat 

films. 

One of them, the second in the series, inspired the creation of

the superhero 'Batman'

The 60 minute tv movie may well be the best of all the Bat films, due in large part to the presence of Miss Helen Hayes, the first lady of the American Theater, and Miss Margaret Hamilton who scared millions of American kids when she played the part of the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz.

The chemistry between the two great actresses is evident from the very first scene in which Miss Hamilton playing a maid to Helen Hayes' character, complains to her boss that she is afraid the Bat will come into the house and attack them.

"The Bat wouldn't come within a thousand miles of you," deadpans Helen Hayes, "You'd scare him to death!"

You can watch all four classic "Bat" movies on the Bill Russo YouTube channel, including the 1959 offering starring Agnes Moorhead and Vincent Price.  

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