Batman: The Movie (1966)

Frank Gorshin: The Riddler

Photos 

Quotes 

• The Riddler : You and your trained, exploding shark!

  The Penguin : Ah, crack! How should I to know they'd have a can of shark-repellent Batspray handy? Why, you sniveling sardine!

  The Riddler : And you pompous, puffed-up, Penguin!

• The Riddler : I see the way to do it! We'll play each of our treacherous trumps in one hand, and we'll do it right here!

  The Penguin : How?

  The Riddler : How? The end! The end, oh...

  [giggles] 

  The Riddler : We shall spring them from The Joker's Jack-In-The-Box, through that window, out over the sea, and into the waiting arms of The Penguin's Exploding Octopus!

  [giggles again] 

  The Riddler : The trigger: one of my riddles, of course, and the bait: You! Catwoman!

• The Riddler : [referring to Batman and Robin, of the Penguin]  They've already been through one of his fishy explosions, and yet they're still very much alive!

• The Riddler : [bell rings]  Commodore Schmidlapp ringing for his tea.

• The Catwoman : Riddler.

  The Riddler : Yes?

  The Catwoman : You're mad, Riddler. Penguin finished Batman by now.

  The Riddler : Why, that miserable waddling mountebank of a bird? He couldn't finish a bag of popcorn!

• The Riddler : Question: Who's going to make the feathers fly and knock Batman and Robin out of the sky?

• The Joker : Suppose Penguin did fail! All the more reason not to hand them your crazy clues!

  The Riddler : Oh, but I must, I must! Why, outwitting Batman is my sole delight, my heaven on earth, my very paradise!

• The Riddler : This bird has flown around the bend.

  The Joker : To cuckoo to land!

  The Catwoman : Riddler! Joker! Do something! We weren't meant for a watery grave, DO SOMETHING!

  The Joker : Now hear this! Now hear this! Blow all tanks! Surface! Surface!

• The Catwoman : [to her cat]  Sic 'em, Hecate. Scratch out their eyes.

  The Penguin : Take away that ravenous panther!

  The Riddler : So help me, Catwoman, I'll feed him to the birds.

  The Joker : I'll incapacitate the beast with my trick confetti!

• The Riddler : How did it go, Catwoman?

  The Catwoman : Purrfectly. Purrfectly. In my disguise as Kitka, I penetrated their press conference. The fools are completely baffled.

• The Riddler : Time is short! We've got to get Batman before he gets us.

• The Penguin : Capital! But who are we going to kidnap?

  The Riddler : I know the perfect victim. I know the perfect victim! l know the perfect victim! Bruce Wayne, the millionaire head of that disgusting do-gooding Wayne Foundation.

  The Joker : Oo! Ooo! Delicious! Just the sort of square citizen Batman will dash to rescue.

• The Riddler : The Dynamic Duo has been silenced forever.

  The Joker : And blasted out of the sky by a coincidence! Oh, the delicious irony of it! Downed by one of Riddler's Polaris skywriters.

  The Penguin : Oh, happy happenstance! Now, hold your breaths as we cross the hall. There are still lingering traces of my finely filtered Penguin gas.

• The Riddler : You and your reconditioned war surplus torpedoes!

  The Penguin : He must be using a super energy reverse polarizer!