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It is claimed that the Penguin's submarine purchase was a pre-atomic model. The first atomic sub was put into action in 1951. The Penguin's sub sure looks far more sophisticated than something built for WW II. Also, the sub fires POLARIS missiles many times over the course of the film. These were developed in 1960 for the express purpose of launching nuclear warheads. These facts together make it rather odd that such an old sub would have the capability to do submerged to air or surface to air launches of any missile. Any sub made before 1950 would not have been designed to launch missiles but to fire torpedoes, horizontal tragectory based projectiles, only.
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During the final Batboat sequence, when the Riddler fires off one last POLARIS missile to take out the Dynamic Duo, someone inverted the stock footage film when it was fed in. This results in a mirrored image of the word POLARIS printed on the side of the rocket.
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When the Penguin slides down on his umbrella handle and tackles Batman on the deck of the submarine, there is some kind of smudge on the camera lens in the upper right corner. It only lasts for this sequence, but, it is present the entire time.
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During the fight sequence aboard the submarine, there are several instances where Batman is seen from the back. Look closely and the seam that runs along the back has started to tear open in several scenes.
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Quotes
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(Batman and Robin stick to the buoy) Robin: Holy gluepot! What's going on? Batman: The fiends. They've converted this buoy into a giant magnet. Pinning us by the metallic objects in our utility belts!
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Joker: Riddler. Where are you going? Riddler: To fire off some more of my riddling clues, of course! Catwoman: Riddler. You're mad! Penguin's finished Batman by now! Riddler: That miserable waddling mountebank of a bird? He couldn't finish a bag of popcorn! Joker: So, say Penguin failed! All the more reason not to hand them your crazy clues! Riddler: But, I must. I must! Outwitting Batman is my sole delight. My joy. My heaven on earth. My very paradise! Hee hee hee hee hee! (exits) Joker: Riddler, come back!
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(In lair after Joker, Riddler and Penguin stopped fighting) Catwoman: United Underworld. We're about as united as the members of the United World Headquaters on Gotham East River! What's the matter with you all?
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Riddler: You and your trained exploding shark. Penguin: How should I know they'd have a can of Shark Repellant Bat-Spray handy? Why you snivelling sardine? Riddler: You pompus, puffed up Penguin!
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Robin: You risked your life to save that...riff raff in the bar? Batman: They may be drinkers, Robin. But they're also human beings and may be salvaged. I had to do it.
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Robin: When you think, Batman, with people in weird outfits like those four supercrooks hangin' around here. It's amazing somebody hasn't already reported this place to the police! Batman: It's a low neighborhood. Full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights which they attribute to alcoholic delusions. Robin: Gosh, the drink is sure a filthy thing, isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes!
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Riddler: I see the way to do it! We'll play each of our treacherous trumps in one hand and we'll do it right here! Penguin: How? Riddler: How? The end! The end.. Oh... (Giggles) We shall spring them from The Joker's Jack-In-The-Box through that window out over the sea and into the waiting arms of The Penguin's Exploding Octopus! (Giggles again) The trigger: one of my riddles, of course, and the bait. You, Catwoman!
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Commissioner Gordon: Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate! Batman: We've been given the plainest warning: they're working together to take over. Chief O'Hara: To take over what, Batman, Gotham City? Batman: Any two of them would try that! Commissioner Gordon: The whole country! Batman: If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four! Their minimum objective must be the entire world.
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(Opening narration) Narrator: This yacht is bringing a revolutionary scientific invention to Gotham City. On a peaceful afternoon motor ride, millionaire Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward, Dick Grayson, have been summoned back to Wayne Manor by an urgent but anonymous call for help; the invention and its custodian are reported in grave danger aboard the yacht! Never ones to shirk responsibility, Bruce and Dick, with characteristic speed and resolve, descend promptly into The Batcave and then as they have done many times before as BATMAN AND ROBIN, courageous warriors against crime, they are off once again to the rescue!
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Notes
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Acknowledgement We wish to express our gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example. To them and to lovers of adventure, lovers of pure escapism, lovers of unadulterated entertainment, lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre...to fun lovers everywhere this picture is respectfully dedicated. If we have overlooked any sizable group of lovers, we apologize.
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This is the first time that the villains, The Penguin, The Joker, Catwoman & The Riddler, gather together to go up against the Caped Crusaders.
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According to The Official Batman Batbook guide to the series, Burgess Meredith ad-libbed the line at the end of the scene where the Penguin dehydrated the pirates: "Careful! Every one of them has a mother!"
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Much like Aunt Harriet, the series' narrator has a very limited part in the movie. He appears only at the beginning of the movie after the title credits.
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People rarely died over the course of the Batman TV series, but, the movie scored a whopping body count of six! The Penguin's pirate who meets his end at the hands of the exploding octopus and the 5 dehydrated rehydrated pirates. Also in a rare turn, Bruce threatens to kill each member of United Underworld if they harmed Kitka.
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Filmed April 25-May 31, 1966 at Fox Studios and on location in Santa Barbara, CA, and Los Angeles, CA.
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On the audio commentary on the DVD, Adam West says that Batman is lying when he says he saw the foam rubber out of the corner of his eye after the helicopter landed safely.
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Cesar Romero now wears a Joker wig which has a brighter shade of green. He would wear this wig throughout the remainder of the series' run. Also, this is the only appearance of The Joker wearing a red mask (matching his attire).
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As the end credits superimpose over The Dynamic Duo lowering themselves by their Batropes, those aren't dummies being filmed! Nope, that really is our faithful Bat-stars Adam and Burt risking life and limb, performing their own stunts, 25 stories high above the city's din!!!
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Aunt Harriet is seen in only 2 shots in the whole movie!
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The President with whom Commissioner Gordon speaks towards the end of the film by phone is none other than Lyndon Baines Johnson himself...beagles and all!
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The Batcopter was a real helicopter based on the Bell 47 design.
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The Batboat was the creation of Glastron Industries in Austin, Texas---hence 20th Century-Fox's decision to premiere the Batman movie in the city.
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Notice that all of The Batvehicles come complete with a red flashing Bat-beacon!
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Commodore Schmidlapp was originally called Commodore Redhead.
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The rubber shark that attacked Batman previously appeared as Peter Lorre's pet in the 1961 film version of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
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Composer Nelson Riddle's musical cues heard in the Batman movie would be recycled in several second-season episodes.
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This was Frank Gorshin's final onscreen appearance as The Riddler until the TV series' third season.
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Contrary to Burt Ward's audio commentary on the DVD, Julie Newmar was not filming Mackenna's Gold at the time of the Batman movie's production; it wouldn't start filming for at least another year! A back injury was the true reason, and so ex-Miss America Lee Meriwether was cast as The Catwoman in Newmar's stead.
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The Penguin's exploding octopus was preceded by a giant exploding umbrella in the screenplay's first draft.
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A Compressed Steam Batpole Lift and an Instant Costume Change Lever, both introduced here in the Bat-movie, explained to Bat-viewers exactly how Bruce N. Wayne and Richard Grayson can change to and from Batman and Robin.
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The jet-pack umbrellas originated in a February 1965 Batman comic story; an early first draft of Lorenzo Semple Jr.'s script had the packs worn on the villains backs, as opposed to being ridden. The umbrellas were also supposed to arouse attraction of The USAF, under the command of Colonel Terry, chasing down the villains in jet planes.
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The movie was intended to aid 20th Century-Fox in selling the Batman TV Series to overseas markets. Its larger budget allowed the producers to create 3 new Batvehicles: The Bat-copter, The Bat-boat and a -Bat-cycle and then use them in the series. Due to financial limits of the TV series, the footage of The Batcopter and The Batboat was lifted directly from the film and edited into the episodes where needed.
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The Batman motion picture, intended to introduce the viewing public to the Batman characters, was originally scheduled to be made prior to the TV series debut; however, ABC, noticing the faltering ratings of several of its TV series, ordered the Batman TV series moved back from its intended premiere date (fall 1966) to a midseason January 1966 debut.
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Allusions
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Bruce Wayne: And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams...Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams. Bruce Wayne quotes Edgar Allen Poe's To One in Paradise to Kitka in her borrowed penthouse apartment--except he replaces the word gray with dark.
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