(1943) serial Episode Four - Slaves Of The Rising Sun. dist. Columbia.
Robin saves Batman who has fallen unconscious in front of an express train. Daka is determined to get more radium to make another radium gun and tries to capture Linda Page. Batman foils the plan, but Daka's men drive off in an armoured truck. Batman chases them and is battling with the driver for control of the vehicle when it crashes over a cliff..............
This is a chapter from the original Batman serial, and not an episode from the later follow-up cliff-hanger Batman And Robin which Columbia released on 8trint sound a few years ago. This complete 15 episodes appeared on 8mm in America, but never had a British release. If this one episode is typical, then UK. fans need not worry, for the print quality is appalling. It must rank as the worst ever put out by a major company and looks like a tenth generation dupe. The night scenes are so dark that the viewer can see nothing and the rest are painful to watch.
Forget it!
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Distributed by: Columbia |
The above review was printed in Super Eight Film Review issue 3 also in issue 38. |
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