Cast
Batman/Bruce Wayne - Adam West
Robin/Dick Grayson - Burt Ward
Alfred Pennyworth - Alan Napier
The Joker - Cesar Romero
The Riddler - Frank Gorshin
The Catwoman - Lee Meriwether
The Penguin - Burgess Meredith
Commissioner Gordon - Neil Hammilton
Chief O'Hara - Stafford Repp
Robin/Dick Grayson - Burt Ward
Alfred Pennyworth - Alan Napier
The Joker - Cesar Romero
The Riddler - Frank Gorshin
The Catwoman - Lee Meriwether
The Penguin - Burgess Meredith
Commissioner Gordon - Neil Hammilton
Chief O'Hara - Stafford Repp
Director - Lessie H. Martinson
Writer - Lorenzo Semple Jnr.
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ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten that the Bat-copter was quite so early...they really wanted the audience to know that they'd spent the budget.
ReplyDeleteAah...O'Hara...a different kind of racist!
ReplyDeleteGood ol' Bonnie.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable that the Bat-Boat apparently sits there unsupervised all day long and some teenager hasn't spray painted a dick on it.
ReplyDelete'Twatman' along the side...
DeleteTo their credit, the blue-screen stuff in this looks no worse than some of that done in Bond films made after this.
ReplyDeleteAnd the model work.
DeleteYes........but how did they get off the magnet?!
ReplyDeleteCommissioner Gordon has Batman's desk.
ReplyDeleteVigilanteism is far away still, but always a remarkable amount of deduction and detective work in the '60s... Alongside huge and ridiculous leaps in logic and reason of course.
ReplyDeleteFrank Gorshin's Riddler is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteUnlikely that in the 60 version... that Bruce Wayne is the real mask.
ReplyDeleteMulti-billionaire Bruce Wayne sure likes rubbing it in to Miss Kitka that her penthouse apartment is merely borrowed.
ReplyDeleteI might be wrong, but I'm fairly sure russian people don't actually call everyone 'comrade'.
ReplyDeleteNice homage to Catwoman's first comic appearance in this plot, a jewel heist on a yacht from which the rather smittten Batman let's her escape justice much to the Boy Wonder's horror.
ReplyDeleteNo 'Kapow' moves when Bruce isn't in costume... Nice.
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant self-mocking. It's so easy to imagine the whole bomb sequence with Frank Drebin in Batman's place.
ReplyDeleteThat bomb sequence is a cultural highlight of the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteThe irony of the fake-break down scene being that, aparently, the Bat-mobile was notoriously unreliable.
ReplyDeleteGorshin's Riddler is quite bizarre - mania, rage - more like the modern day representation of the Joker, and probably the best, albeit arch version of the character that's ever made it to screen.
ReplyDeleteHe's really good. It's a shame that he's not really got much to do.
DeleteI suddenly can't remember how this ends....
ReplyDelete1966...so, for what is largely supposed to be a kids movie, there's a lot of smoking in this.
ReplyDeleteHoly Heartbreak!! Possibly giving away the secret identity there Robin
ReplyDelete"Holy jumble! Where's the hope of the world now?" - strange, it's humour is knowing - yet the science lab bit is not so far off the original Bob Kane drawings....
ReplyDeleteThey're all going to reappear sitting on lab stands. Nasty.
ReplyDeleteOddly, the tension-packed end (!) makes a good companion piece to Superman: The Movie!
ReplyDeleteQuite, quite extraordinary.
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