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...THAT WALKED BY HERSELF read by Boris Karloff (Caedmon). One painless way to break the comic-book habit and get the kids back to Kipling is to let this gentle old Frankenstein do it for you. All about the cave dwellers, and how the lady of the house domesticates a dog, a horse, a cow-and finally a cat, which proves a match for her wits...
...genre. One might have suspended disbelief, perhaps, if its characters seemed to feel as well as act. But the sinister mastermind Largo (Adolfo Celi), his lovely but treacherous "niece" (Claudine Auger), and the slowwited CIA man Leiter (a very inadequate Rick Van Nutter) are never developed beyond the comic-book level, and Bond himself (Sean Connery again) is slick and lifeless, as always...
...kiddie movie was complete with out a Batman-and-Robin episode. Children roared their approval as the "dynamic duo" burst through windows, grappled with thugs and wrestled with wild animals in their lengthy pursuit of the evil Japanese Dr. Daka. Batman fell into cinematic and literary obscurity during the comic-book cleanup of the '50s (in 1954 Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham compared the relationship of Batman and Robin to "a wish dream of two homosexuals living together"). But in the Great Society, everyone lives better, and Batman and Robin have recently been rehabilitated into high-camp folk heroes...
Their puffy, unathletic leaps are a satire of comic-book prowess, and the plots are at the same level. Why should Batman's badly produced, amateurishly acted one-reelers do so well 22 years after they were released? Offered one Columbia executive: "Comic-book heroes are the only heroes we have nowadays." Said one Batfan: "It's pop art." Says another: "Where else can you get entertained for four hours for a buck and a quarter...
...Squares. On the propaganda and persuasion level, though, the mills were grinding. Dr. Terry noted that 350,000 copies of his report were distributed during the year. And the American Cancer Society sent out 10 million copies of a comic-book insert addressed to teenagers, Smoking Is for Squares...