Product description

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

Price: £9.44
Average customer rating: 3.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781404977082
ISBN : 1404977082
Label : Columbia TriStar
Manufacturer : Columbia TriStar
Publisher : Columbia TriStar
Release date : 2005-03-22
Title : Batman and Robin: The Complete 1949 Movie Serial Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actor : Array
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Region code : 1
Running time : 261
Studio : Columbia TriStar
Theatrical releaseDate : 1949-05-26
MPN : COLD10521D

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2003-06-11 rating:

Fun, action filled serial
As a Batman fan I was very surprised to see that this serial was actually as good as it is. Robert Lowery and John Duncan are just right as Batman and Robin. Duncan is quite athletic and holds his own in the action sequences. Lowery is solid as both Batman and the seemingly lazy Bruce Wayne. There are enough action sequences, car chases, bat-fights and derring-do to please most Bat-fans and 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 all 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) and 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 and 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 and Dick Grayson a lot and never associate them as Batman and 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 and Wayne both drove 1949 Mercury convertibles. The suits were ok, the sets were a BIT cheesey especially the "Wayne Mansion"-which looked more like a middle-class sub-urban house. Overall a good serial and a nice change of pace from the 1960s and the 1990s dark brooding hero.

I give it 6 Bats out of 10!!

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