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Batman and Robin: The Complete 1949 Movie Serial Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams, Lyle Talbot, Ralph Graves
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Format: Black & White DVD-Video Full Screen Subtitled NTSC
Released: 22 Mar 2005
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Fun, action filled serial - By: , 11 Jun 2003
As a Batman fan I was very surprised to see that this serial was actuallly as good as it is. Robert Lowery & John Duncan are just right as Batman & Robin. Duncan is quite athletic & holds his own in the action sequences. Lowery is solid as both Batman & the seemingly lazy Bruce Wayne. There are enough action sequences, car chases, bat-fights & derring-do to please most Bat-fans & the Wizard makes a pretty good Bat-villain (not in the same league as the Joker but still pretty good). The story is ok. The fact that it has to be stretched over 15 chapters forces some repetition but it alll holds together. A good deal of the movie was shot outdoors which gives it a nice feel. On the minus side is the lack of Batmobile. It just doesn't feel right watching the Dynamic Duo chase crooks in a convertible. Oh well at least we have the Bat-signal, the Bat-cave, Commissioner Gordon (nicely played by Lyle Talbot) & Vickie Vale to keep us die hard fans happy. Not surprisingly, some of the cliff-hanger endings are better than others. One that stands out is when Batman & the railway chief are trapped in a cabin with a weird bomb device about to explode....and the clocks start to accelerate!! However the funny part was Lyle Talbot as Comm. Gordon who would see Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson a lot & never associate them as Batman & Robin who he would also see a lot. The same goes for Vicki Vale played by Jane Adams. No one also associated the fact that Batman & Wayne both drove 1949 Mercury convertibles. The suits were ok, the sets were a BIT cheesey especiallly the "Wayne Mansion"-which looked more like a middle-class sub-urban house. Overalll a good serial & a nice change of pace from the 1960s & the 1990s dark brooding hero.

I give it 6 Bats out of 10!!