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The Batman 1943 movie serial (aka An Evening With Batman And Robin) USA, 1943. Dir: Lambert Hillyer. With: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson, Charles Middleton, Charles C. Wilson. Columbia. B&W. Frenetic fifteen episode serial with such chapter titles as 'The Electrical Brain', 'The Mark of the Zombies' and 'The Living Corpse', based on the popular comic book character created by Bob Kane. Wilson makes a laconic Bruce Wayne/Batman, but this long serial is spiced up by Naish's outrageous performance as Japanese spy Dr Daka, who is hiding out in a wax tour depicting war-time atrocities committed against prisoners of war by "the slinty eyed Japs' (certain scenes and dialogue referring to the Japanese were cut or re-dubbed for the 1990 reissue on video). With a diabolical machine that turns his victims into radio-controlled zombies, and a pit full of alligators, Daka is after Radium to power his death ray. The complete serial was released as a four-hour feature in 1965. Sequel: Batman And Robin (1949)