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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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20225/10
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.
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Cast
- Lewis WilsonBruce Wayne
- Douglas CroftDick Grayson
- J. Carrol NaishTito Daka
- Shirley PattersonLinda Page
- William AustinAlfred
- Knox ManningNarrator
- Frank AustinHotel Clerk
- Lynton BrentIntended Lockwood Pilot
- Roy BuckoBarfly
- George ChesebroBrennan
Crew
- Lambert HillyerDirector
- Leslie SwabackerWriter
- Victor McLeodWriter
- Harry L. FraserWriter
- James S. Brown Jr.Director of Photography
- Lee ZahlerOriginal Music Composer
- Dwight CaldwellEditor
- Earl TurnerEditor
- Rudolph C. FlothowProducer
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