"I suggest that you adopt an attitude of fatal tresignation..."
This is the episode where, predictably, Linda's uncle gets zombified by Daka, in a suiably bonkers machine which reminds me of a pound shop version of the device from Bride of Frankenstein, a fairly recent film at this point. Daka is a properly moustache-twirling baddie and... yeah, even his henchmen are racist about him behind his back. I've learned, since last episode, that J. Carroll Naish was originally set to play the Joker, and you can kind of see with the costume and the hideout. Instead... oh dear. There's a danger of actually getting desensitised to the racism.
Awkwardly, though, this is actually pretty good for a movie serial.The cliffhanger resolution is actually ok. Daka's train robbery plan is cool, as is Bruce's plan to trap Daka with the newspsaper advert, which Daka sees through... only for the Batman to see through said, er, seeing through.
This is massively formulaic but, hey, it's a movie serial. So far, if it wasn't for the racism, I'd be quite impressed.
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