Batman (1966 film)

Batman, often promoted as Batman The Movie, is a 1966 American superhero film based on the Batman television series, and the first fulllength theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.

When Batman and Robin get a tip that Commodore Schmidlapp is in danger aboard his yacht, they launch a rescue mission using the batcopter. As Batman descends on the batladder to land on the yacht it suddenly vanishes beneath him. He rises out of the sea with a shark attacking his leg. After Batman dislodges it with batshark repellant, the shark explodes. Batman and Robin head back to Commissioner Gordons office, where they deduce that the tip was a setup by the United Underworld, a gathering of four of the most powerful villains in Gotham City Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman.The United Underworld equip themselves with a dehydrator that can turn humans into dust an invention of Schmidlapp, who is unaware he has been kidnapped, a submarine made to resemble a penguin, and their three pirate henchmen Bluebeard, Morgan and Quetch. It is revealed the yacht was really a projection. When The Dynamic Duo return to a buoy concealing a projector, they are trapped on the buoy by a magnet and targeted by torpedoes. They use a radiodetonator to destroy two of the missiles, and a porpoise sacrifices itself to intercept the last one. Catwoman, disguised as Soviet journalist Miss Kitka, helps the group kidnap Bruce Wayne and pretends to be kidnapped with him, as part of a plot to lure Batman and finish him off with another of Penguins explosive animals not knowing that Wayne is Batmans alterego. After Wayne escapes captivity, Penguin disguises himself as the Commodore and schemes his way into the Batcave along with five dehydrated henchmen. This plan fails when the henchmen unexpectedly disappear into antimatter once struck Penguin mistakenly rehydrated them with toxic heavy water, used to recharge the Batcaves atomic pile. ........

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