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Batman (1966)

Directed by Leslie H. Martinson

Action | Comedy | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, danfinn

Overview

The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

Rated PG | Length 105 minutes

Actors

Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya | Robert Adler | Leon Alton | Al Bain | Bill Baldwin | Vincent Barbi | Wolfe Barzell | Jack Berle | Shelly Bruce | Linda Carpenter | Albert Carrier | Arlene Charles | George Cisar | Maurice Dallimore | Nancy DeCarl | Jay Della | George DeNormand | William Dozier | Bill Dyer | Daniel Elam | Louie Elias | Peter Forster | Gregory Gaye | Robert Goodwin | Annette Gorman | Sol Gorss | Julie Gregg | Elizabeth Harrower | Eddie Hice | George Holmes | Marylou Kenworthy | Lyzanne La Due | Jack LaLanne | Sheila Lane | Harry Lauter | George J. Lewis | Jo Anne Loren | Sandra Lynn | Todd Mason | Ed McCready | Shirley Melline | Mary Michael | Harry Minsey | Mike Morelli | Monty O'Grady | James O’Hara | Letitia Paquette | Anne Patterson | Charlie Picerni | Murray Pollack | Ann Reece | Wally Rose | Clark Ross | Tony Santoro | Bernard Sell | Teru Shimada | Carl Sklover | June Smaney | Mabel Smaney | Cap Somers | Fred Stromsoe | William Tannen | Emmanuel Thomas | Joan Thomas | Arthur Tovey | Susan Tracy | Ivan Triesault | Sandy Tyler | Susan Walther | Guy Way | Van Williams | John Yates | De De Young | Jim Michael

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Growing up in the mid-1980s, we didn’t have much in the way of live-action superhero fisticuffs aside from the ever decreasing in quality spate of Superman flicks. But, someone brilliant decided to resurrect the 1960s Batman TV series on Nickelodeon (I think), and thus my love of Adam West began.

I’ve seen BATMAN off and on through the years, but it never resonated with me as a good film until this watch as part of my Great Batman Project. Not having seen it in over a decade allowed fresh eyes and renewed heart and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t live up. It’s wacky just like the TV show and very hokey, but surprisingly, it’s also very funny; there’s a Bruce Wayne orgasm scene in there that I never latched onto before.

We may never get the TV series on DVD, but at least we have this: a shining example of how a more wacky take on Batman can work, unlike Joel Schumacher’s travesties BATMAN FOREVER and BATMAN & ROBIN.

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