Batman: The Movie (1966)

Neil Hamilton: Commissioner Gordon

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• Commissioner Gordon : It could be any one of them. But which one? Which ones?

  Batman : Pretty *fishy* what happened to me on that ladder.

  Commissioner Gordon : You mean where there's a fish there could be a Penguin?

  Robin : But wait! It happened at sea. See? C for Catwoman!

  Batman : Yet, an exploding shark *was* pulling my leg...

  Commissioner Gordon : The Joker!

  Chief O'Hara : All adds up to a sinister riddle. Riddle-R. Riddler!

  Commissioner Gordon : Oh, the thought strikes me. So dreadful, I scarcely dare give it utterance.

  Batman : The four of them. Their forces combined.

  Robin : Holy nightmare!

• Commissioner Gordon : Penguin, Joker, Riddler... and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!

  Batman : We've been given the plainest warning. They're working together to take over...

  Chief O'Hara : Take over *what*, Batman? Gotham City?

  Batman : Any *two* of them would try that!

  Commissioner Gordon : The whole country?

  Batman : If it were three of them, I would say yes, but *four*? Their minimum objective must be... the *entire* world.

• Batman : Look at this pair of joking riddles.

  Chief O'Hara : [reads]  What does a turkey do when he flies upside down?

  Robin : He gobbles up!

  Chief O'Hara : Of course.

  Batman : And, number two...

  Commissioner Gordon : [reads]  What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?

  Robin : A sparrow with a machine gun!

  Commissioner Gordon : Yes, of course.

• Miss Kitka : [to Batman]  If you please, to take off the mask to give the better picture?

  Commissioner Gordon : Great Scott! Batman take off his mask?

  Chief O'Hara : The woman must be mad!

  Batman : Please... Chief O'Hara... all of you. This young lady is a stranger to our shores. Her request is not unnatural, however, impossible to grant.

  Miss Kitka : Impossible?

  Batman : Indeed. If Robin and I were to remove our masks, the secret of our true identities would be revealed.

  Commissioner Gordon : Completely destroying their value as ace crimefighters.

  Chief O'Hara : Sure, ma'am. Not even Commisioner Gordon and meself know who they really are.

  Robin : In fact, our own relatives we live with don't know.

  Miss Kitka : But your so curious costumes...

  Robin : Don't be put off by them, ma'am. Underneath this garb, we're perfectly ordinary Americans.

  Miss Kitka : You are like the masked vigilantes in the Westerns, no?

  Commissioner Gordon : Certainly not! Batman and Robin are fully deputized agents of the law.

  Robin : Support your police! That's our message!

  Batman : Well said, Robin... and no better way to end this press conference... thank you, and good day.

• Commissioner Gordon : A fine job, Batman. You allayed their fears magnificently.

  Batman : What else could I have done, Commissioner? If I told the truth, panic will grip the city.

  Chief O'Hara : The truth. Sure, and what is the truth?

  Batman : A decoy. A strange anonymous warning that Commodore Schmidlapp is in danger, to lure me into a trap.

  Commissioner Gordon : A fiendish attempt on Batman's life.

  Chief O'Hara : You mean, when they were luring you to a watery grave, the commodore's yacht has been hijacked in some places?

  Batman : Precisely.

  Commissioner Gordon : And who behind it? Not a clue.

  Batman : Tell me, Commissioner: What known supercriminals are at large just now?

  Commissioner Gordon : I'll check at once, Batman. Bonnie, let's have the latest status report on supercriminals still at large.

  Bonnie : Yes, Commissioner.

  Commissioner Gordon : Thank you, Bonnie. Coming up, Batman, on the closed-circuit TV screen. Come over here.

  [the quartet move to the closed-circuit TV screen on the wall] 

  Closed Circuit TV Screen : Status report. Known supercriminals not currently imprisoned.

  Batman : The Penguin.

  Commissioner Gordon : That pompous, waddling master of foul play, maestro a million criminal umbrellas.

  Robin : The Joker.

  Chief O'Hara : Devilish clown prince of crime! Oh, if I only had a nickel for every time he's baffled us!

  Commissioner Gordon : What, the Riddler loose too?

  Batman : So it seems. Loose to plague us with his criminal conundrums.

  Robin : Gosh! And the Catwoman!

  Closed Circuit TV Screen : End of status report.

• Commissioner Gordon : Great day in the morning!

• Batman : [on the Batphone]  Yes, Commissioner?

  Commissioner Gordon : What progress, Batman? ls there hope?

  Batman : There's always hope. You should know that, Sir.

  Commissioner Gordon : Of course, of course.