Batman (1966)
 With
the instant popularity of the campy 1960's Batman TV
series, 20th Century Fox decided a big-screen adventure was in
order.
The plots were still ludicrous and the dialogue even sillier,
but as always, stars Adam West and Burt Ward played their parts
with a straight-laced sincerity that made things all the more
hilarious.
The dastardly deeds begin when the arch villains of The United
Underworld - Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler and The Penguin -
combine forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their
fantastic plot to control the entire world.
From his flipper-powered submarine, Penguin and his cohorts
hijack a yacht containing a super dehydrator, which can extract
all moisture from humans and reduce them to particles of
dust.
The evil-doers turn the nine Security Council members in the
United World Building into vials of multicoloured crystals.
Batman and Robin track the villains in their Batboat and use
Batcharge missiles to force the sub to surface.
But first they have to defeat a ticking time bomb, an exploding
octopus and a shark with a six-foot vertical leap!
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