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Batman

Batman

  • Status: Released
  • 16-07-1943
  • Runtime: 260 min
  • Score: 6.4
  • Vote count: 117

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

Lewis Wilson

Bruce Wayne

Douglas Croft

Dick Grayson

J. Carrol Naish

Tito Daka

Shirley Patterson

Linda Page

William Austin

Alfred

Knox Manning

Narrator

Frank Austin

Hotel Clerk

Lynton Brent

Intended Lockwood Pilot

Roy Bucko

Barfly

George Chesebro

Brennan

Dick Curtis

Agent Croft of Section 50

Jimmy Dime

Henchman

Lester Dorr

Agent on Plane

Kenne Duncan

Fred

Robert Fiske

Foster

Sam Flint

Dr. Borden

Jerry Frank

Cave of Horrors Thug

Terry Frost

Male Nurse

Jack Gardner

Jim Bramwell

Gus Glassmire

Martin Warren

Karl Hackett

Wallace

Earle Hodgins

Joe

Mauritz Hugo

Doctor

Jack Ingram

Klein

Warren Jackson

Bernie

I. Stanford Jolley

Brett

Bob Kane

Newsboy

Eddie Kane

J. Hanson

George J. Lewis

Burke

Tom London

Andrews

Sam Lufkin

Cop

George Magrill

Henchman at Sphinx Club

John Maxwell

Sam Fletcher

Charles Middleton

Ken Colton

Harold Miller

Restaurant Patron

Pat O'Malley

Cop

Ted Oliver

Marshall

Bud Osborne

Brown

Stanley Price

Henchman Driver

Joey Ray

Henchman

Cyril Ring

Restaurant Patron

George Robotham

Henchman

Frank Shannon

Dr. Hayden

Harry Tenbrook

Bartender

Michael Vallon

Preston

Anthony Warde

Stone

Blackie Whiteford

Barfly

Billy Wilkerson

Steve

Charles C. Wilson

Captain Arnold

Harry Wilson

Henchman

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15 episodes bolted into one for this full feature version as "Batman" (Lewis Wilson) and "Robin" (Douglas Croft) must thwack and pow their way to victory against the evil plans of "Prince Daka" (J. Carrol Naish). The Prince's dastardly plot involves using the now largely abandoned "Little Tokyo" area as a base for robotising some prominent scientists so he can complete his take over of Gotham City. Can our dynamic duo thwart his plan? The production is seriously stage bound, the constant fisticuffs are all too repetitive and Croft looks about ten years old. It might have worked better in an episodic format, but as a four-hour piece of entertainment it all just recycles itself far too regularly, with defeat for the Prince and his innumerable henchmen being snatched from the jaws of victory just once too often. There are some lighter moments as the caped crusaders regularly deliver the city's most wanted to the cops but the acting is pretty dreadful across the board. It was probably entertaining enough in 1943, but 80 years later it is pretty feeble stuff.