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| starring = | music = Lee Zahler | cinematography = James S. Brown Jr. | editing = Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = | runtime = 15 chapters (260 minutes) | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} ''Batman'' is a 15-chapter serial, released in 1943 by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the DC Comics character Batman, introduced May 1939 in Detective Comics issue 27. The serial starred Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as Robin. J. Carrol Naish played the villain, an original character named Dr. Daka. Rounding out the cast were Shirley Patterson as Linda Page (Bruce Wayne's love interest) and William Austin as Alfred the butler. The plot involved Batman—as a U.S. government agent—attempting to defeat the Japanese agent Dr. Daka at the height of World War II. The film is notable for being the first filmed appearance of Batman, and for debuting story details that became permanent parts of the Batman mythos. It introduced the Bat's Cave and its secret entrance through a grandfather clock inside Wayne Manor. Both departures subsequently appeared in the comics. The serial also changed the course of how Alfred Pennyworth's physical appearance would be depicted in later ''Batman'' works. At the time it was released in theaters, Alfred was overweight in Batman comics. After William Austin's portrayal in this chapter play, subsequent issues of the comics portrayed him as Austin had: trim and sporting a thin mustache. The serial was commercially successful and spawned another, ''Batman and Robin,'' in 1949. It was re-released in 1965. The re-released version, called ''An Evening with Batman and Robin,'' proved very popular, and its success inspired the action-comedy lampoon series ''Batman'' (and its 1966 theatrical feature film spin-off) starring Adam West and Burt Ward. The film serial was broadcast on Turner Classic Movies from March to June 2015, followed by the 1949 serial from June to November. ==Plot== Batman and Robin struggle against Dr. Daka, a Japanese scientist and agent of Hirohito who has invented a device that turns people into pseudo-zombies and has a base in a funhouse of horrors in a Japanese area of the city. Daka makes several attempts to defeat the Dynamic Duo before finally falling to his death when Robin hits the wrong switch, opening a trapdoor to a pit of crocodiles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Batman (serial)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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