What if...1943's Batman serial was an A-list studio film?

[enyawd72]

Dwight Frye as the Joker...with that Renfield laugh! That man could play crazy.


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[toothaction]

"Penguin:Eric Blore"

Perfection!I would have also accepted Eugene Pallette.

[PNGwynne]

We've discussed this somewhat before, I always like to see other's opinions and speculation. What if there was a big-budget 1943 Batman film?

My casting ideas (I'm fudging years a little):

Batman/Bruce Wayne: Gregory Peck
Robin/Dick Grayson: Darryl Hickman/Dickie Moore
Alfred: Arthur Treacher
Commissioner Gordon: Edward Arnold
Chief O'Hara: Thomas Mitchell
Julie Madison:Ann Sheridan
Catwoman/Selina Kyle: Lauren Bacall
Joker: Conrad Veidt
Penguin:Eric Blore
Two-Face: Tyrone Power
Riddler: Danny Kaye

Some of these are firm in my imagination; others I mulled over. What say ye?