[The News Bot]

For its great historic significance, this is a real gem. Even if you weren’t a Batman fan and just wanted to see what a slice of entertainment from this era looked like this is a fine collection in a convenient two disc package. The narration over the story is classic serial entertainment, complete with cliff-hanger endings where the narrator warns us not to miss the next episode, this is classic cinema of a bygone era. “Don’t fail to see the next episode… at this theatre in one week.”

I wanted to give it an overall that’s more respectable than a mere 6, but I have to consider the medium of DVD and this releases total disregard for the possibilities that presents. Some inside information would have been nice, even text about the cast or some of the trivia surrounding this serial if not a short documentary. Some effort at restoring video from the film might be a lot to ask, a pristine black and white might take away from this feature’s charm but better quality digitization from the recovered film should have been a priority had they done a better job at converting to DVD this would have easily gotten a 7 overall, if they included some extras an easy 8.
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