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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 11: A Nipponese Trap
So, even though the title is A Nipponese Trap, there’s no trap in the chapter. Unless it’s when the bad guys bail out Lewis Wilson–in his thug disguise–so they can run him over. Except Douglas Croft...
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 12: Embers of Evil
The chapter opens with Batman leaving some guy to get killed–it was hinted at in the cliffhanger, which resolves even more stupidly than I expected, but I sort of assumed Batman wasn’t going to get...
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 13: Eight Steps Down
Despite the previous chapter suggesting a cliffhanger, turns out the resolution is more about Douglas Croft and William Austin’s impatience than anything else. But as Batman is now seventy-some percent...
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 14: The Executioner Strikes
The impossible occurs, one chapter until the finish, with The Executioner Strikes actually having a satisfying cliffhanger resolution. A somewhat satisfying one. Better than any of the others. After...
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer), Chapter 15: The Doom of the Rising Sun
Titling the final chapter, The Doom of the Rising Sun, might give away whether or not J. Carrol Naish succeeds with his awful plan–which Batman never quite defines and sort of forgets about anyway. The...
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer)
For the majority of Batman’s fifteen chapters, the serial has a set formula when it comes to the action. Batman (Lewis Wilson) and Robin (Douglas Croft) get into fist fights with the same five or six...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 7: The Fatal Blast
Shockingly, there is actually a blast in The Fatal Blast. Sadly it seems unlikely to be fatal enough, as there are eight more chapters to go. Not even halfway through Batman and Robin. After the...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 8: Robin Meets the...
Robin Meets the Wizard! does indeed feature Johnny Duncan’s Robin meeting the Wizard. The masked, unknown (undoubtedly until the last chapter) Wizard knocks Duncan out while Duncan’s on lookout. More...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 9: The Wizard Strikes...
There’s some family drama for Jane Adams this chapter of Batman and Robin, as George Offerman Jr. returns to provide the main story for The Wizard Strikes Back! Otherwise, it’s just Robert Lowery and...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 10: Batman’s Last...
The chapter title, Batman’s Last Chance!, must refer to Batman’s last chance to run around in this particular drab office building. I don’t think it’s supposed to be the same one they used earlier, but...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 11: Robin’s Ruse
So when Robin (Johnny Duncan) is alone in the Batcave, he doesn’t use the changing room. He puts on his tights in the public area. Off-screen, sure, but Robin’s Ruse confirms it. The titular Ruse isn’t...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 12: Robin Rides the Wind
The chapter title, Robin Rides the Wind, got me hoping Robin would jump out of a plane or something. Without a chute. Sad spoiler: he doesn’t. The chapter does clear one of the Wizard suspects, which...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 13: The Wizard’s...
If the Wizard has any challenge in The Wizard’s Challenge!, it’s outsmarting Batman and Robin. It doesn’t take much as it turns out. Especially not with Robin (Johnny Duncan) playing with a toy truck...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 14: Batman vs. Wizard!
Okay, I’m not wrong–wheelchair-bound, ornery scientist William Fawcett really does just walk around in front of everyone and no one reacts. He’s been zapping himself with electricity to regain use of...
View ArticleBatman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 15: Batman Victorious
For a few minutes in Batman Victorious, which is mostly a chase sequence–the invisible (though only temporarily) Wizard is on the run from Batman and the cops. There are some questionable (but more...
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Batman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet)
Batman and Robin is fifteen chapters; all together, it’s just under four and a half hours. It is not a rewarding four and a half hours. Not at all. Of the fourteen credited actors, one gives a good...
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Catwoman (2011, Lauren Montgomery)
So in the mind of writer Paul Dini, human traffickers take women from the United States and ship them overseas. I really hope he’s not heading a commission for the U.N., because that situation isn’t...
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Batgirl (1967)
I’m not sure the actual story, but I’ll just assume at the height of the “Batman” show’s popularity, the producers thought about doing a “Batgirl” series. The pilot, if it’s any indication of the...
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Catwoman (2011, Lauren Montgomery)
So in the mind of writer Paul Dini, human traffickers take women from the United States and ship them overseas. I really hope he’s not heading a commission for the U.N., because that situation isn’t...
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Batgirl (1967)
I’m not sure the actual story, but I’ll just assume at the height of the “Batman” show’s popularity, the producers thought about doing a “Batgirl” series. The pilot, if it’s any indication of the...
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