There was the macabre sight, after the Joker's fall, of his still-grinning face as he lay dead.He was splayed on his back on the church's front steps many stories below.A toy (in proxy for the villain) laughed maniacally in his pocket.Commissioner Gordon announced at a press conference: "The reign of crime is over" - and DA Harvey Dent read aloud a letter from Batman that promised: "If the forces of evil should rise again to cast a shadow on the heart of the city, Call me.Nobody was killed, although Jackson and Cullen were able to escape from the wreckage.The next morning, a pursuit was headed up by local "humanitarian" Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel), liberal, compassionate and non-chalant but feeling pressured by the governor during an election year to quickly find the fugitives.Surrounded by guards, Hermione proposed that the rio jump onto the back of the dragon.She released the creature from its chains with aRelashiocommand, and the group hung on as the freed creature climbed out of the underground cavern, and sent several goblins to their deaths on a derailed track car.The flip-side of this dark and serious buddy picture was its major competitor of the year, the M-rated, humorous revisionistic western/comedyButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)with its heroes Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and he Sundance Kid (Robert Redford).