Batman: The Movie

Plot

Big Ben Distilleries has a brand new invention, a 'dehydrator' with the capacity to dehydrate things such as grapes turning them into instant wine being transported to Gotham City via Commodore Scmiddlapp's private yacht, however Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) get a tip that both the dehydrator and the commodore are in grave danger aboard the yacht and so they launch a rescue mission, ending with a decoy yacht, a clever holographic projection designed to distrack the caped crusaders long-enough while the real yacht was being hijacked else-where being discovered, and Batman having a tangle with an exploding shark

At a press-converance discussing the happening, Miss Kitka, a news journalist for the Moscow Bugle secretly Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) in disguise appears in a failed attempt to make Batman take off his cowl as-well as mock the vigalantes, Kitka leaves and reports back to her villain comrades as Catwoman at the lair confirming Batman survived the exploding shark attempt on his life

After the converance has ended, Batman, Robin, Commissioner Gordon(Neil Hamilton) and Chief O'Hara deduce that the ones who set-up the tip were the four most powerful villains ever, The Penguin (Burgess Meredith), The Joker (Cesar Romero), The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) who are now aiming for world domination, Batman and Robin then leave to return to the Batcave (1960's TV Series)

At the Batcave the caped crusaders discover the source of the holographic projection of the yacht, an illegal bell-boy, after going to the bell-boy in the Batboat(1966 film) they are trapped when Penguin activates a magnet in the bell-boy, which attracts the metallic objects in Batman and Robin's utility belts, then from his newly aquired pre-nuclear submarine, Penguin has Joker fire torpedoes at the bell-boy, however using a device which reverses the pollurity of objects Batman destroys the first two but is helpless against the last seeing as the device's batteries are dead luckily an unfornunate sea-creature gets in the way of the last torpedo, fooling the four villains of the heroes' demises long enough for them to escape back to the docks

At the docks Batman discovers that the Penguin under the alias, P.N Gwynne acquired the submarine from a Navy Surplus admiral who has such vehicles at his disposal, suddenly the Riddler shoots a missile into the sky from the submarine which reveals sky-writing, the sky-writing of another couple of riddles

Back at Commissioner Gordon's office, Batman, Robin, the Commissioner and Chief O'Hara solve the riddles and are able to officially confirm Catwoman's involvement with Penguin, Joker and Riddler, the heroes then depart for the Batcave

Meanwhile...The Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Catwoman apart of an organization known as the 'United Underworld' devise a new plan to kill Batman, they will have Catwoman as Miss Kitka lure some a millionaire philantropist back to her apartment where they will kidnap them both and then use as bait for Batman to come to the rescue only to fall prey to a death-trap, the chosen millionaire philantropist is none other then Bruce Wayne, head of the Wayne Foundation, the plan is set in motion

Miss Kitka visits Bruce Wayne at Wayne Manor where she confronts him with riddles that were left at her pent-house which is owned by the Wayne Foundation, she muses that the Riddler might have been behind it as he hates the Wayne Foundation and anything to do with it and seemingly her, as she may have stumbled on his master-plan Bruce and Kitka dismiss the riddles and set up a date for the upcoming evening as a part of Bruce and 'her' capture to lure Batman into a trap

Bruce meets up with Robin in the Batcave as Batman and they solve the riddles left at Miss Kitka's Wayne Foundation- owned pent-house, revealing a threat on Miss Kitka's life as she has unwittingly stumbled upon Riddler's master-plan so it seems, however it is all a trick of course, Bruce and Kitka go out on the date later that evening and Alfred Pennyworth (Alan Napier) and Robin keep close watch from the Batmobile (1960's Batman) just in case, Riddler trys to make good on is threat

In a plot to draw the criminals out of hiding, Robin has Chief O'Hara flash the Bat-Signal to make it seem that he and Batman are racing to police headquarters, and so the criminals thinking that their out of the way, will come out onto the field to try and kill Kitka, only to been ambushed, apprehended and incarcarated, the plan however doesn't seem to work

Back at Miss Kitka's apartment after the date has ended, the two start to get romantically involved and Robin honouring Bruce's privacy turns off the 'Bat-Monitor' monitoring Bruce and Kitka's every move, while being switched off, The Penguin, Joker, Riddler and their pirate-henchmen, Bluebeard, Morgan and Quetch ambush and kidnap Bruce and Kitka. When Robin switches back on it seems too late to save Bruce and Kitka

Bruce manages to escape the villains' clutches after he fools them into untieng him, sadly without Kitka who was missing at the time (having changed into Catwoman before-hand)

Bruce along with Robin returns to the lair as Batman only to find a bomb, which Batman comically trys to dispose of to no avail (the places he wants

Cast

Appearances

Individuals

Batman/Bruce Wayne
Robin/Dick Grayson
Catwoman
The Joker
The Penguin
The Riddler
Alfred
Aunt Harriet Cooper
Commissioner James Gordon
Chief O'Hara
Commodore Schmidlapp
Vice Admiral Fangschliester
Bluebeard
Morgan
Quetch
Mr. Merrick
Mr. Stanley
Admiral Fangschliester's assistant
US President

Vehicles

Batmobile
Batcycle
- Batcycle Go-Cart
Batboat
Batcopter
Penguin's pre-nuclear submarine
Penguin's Jet-Pack Umbrellas
Sandy Nose lightship

Technology

Total Dehydrator
Super Molecular Dust Separator
Magnetic buoy
Utility Belt
Utility Belt transmitter
Batrope
Batcamera
Batpoles
- Batpole lift
Batladder
Batradio
Batpellets
Batgas
Batscanner
Anti-Penguin gas pill
Dream Pill
Polaris Missile

Weapons

Joker's joy buzzer
Penguin's Umbrellas
Bat Shark Repellent
Batcharge
Batcharge Launcher
Oceanic Repellant Batsprays
- Shark Repellant
- Whale Repellant
- Manta Ray Repellant
- Barracuda Repellant
Penguin Gas
Penguin's exploding octopus
Joker's Jack-in-the-Box
Joker's Trick Confetti

Locations

Batcave
Wayne Manor
Ye Olde Benbow Taverne
United World Building
Miss Kitka's Apartment
The Folded Arms
Gotham Airport
Kirkeby Center
Moby Dick's Coffee Shop
Pentagon
Gotham Central Park
Short Island
Short Island Sound
Gotham East River
Big Ben Distillaries
Moscow Bugle

Organizations

United Underworld
United World Security Council
Gotham City Police Department
Gotham City Coast Guard
Penguin's Five Guinea Pigs
Wayne Foundation

Events

Miscellanea

Hecate
Exploding shark
Batdrift
Bathold
Bat-centrifuge
Batwake
Batsignal
GC-TV
Foam Rubber Wholesalers Convention
Benedict Arnold Monument
Poe's "To One in Arms"

Production

To be added