Great scene: the climactic fight between Batman and the Joker.BackgroundThe Bank Dick(1940) is an all-time classic comedy starring the great W.C.Fields.Directed by Edward F.Cline, the film is only a little over an hour long.It is one of his very best and funniest films (tied with Paramount""sIt""s A Gift (1934)), his next-to-last major film role (he last appeared in Cline""sNever Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)), and his first solo starring role in a Universal Pictures film.The next scene was set at the Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital, a "nuthouse," where teenaged patients were being administered hypnocil - a drug to keep them docile.After they have left for the Tower, the cook remarks to the maid that the "master" frequently keeps telling the "mistress" that she is ill, although she doesn""t appear to have anything wrong with her."Bane" (Jeep Swenson), a muscle-bound, monstrous hulk ("the ideal killing machine").In the audience were - stereotypically - an American General, a Russian Commissar, a Sheik, and other Dictators.In August 1939, Coogan and his mother reached a settlement in which he received about half of the remaining funds (totaling $252,000), or $126,000.