Batman: The Movie (1966)

Lee Meriwether: The Catwoman, Kitka

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Quotes 

• Miss Kitka : [to Batman]  If you please, to take off the mask to give the better picture?

  Commissioner Gordon : Great Scott! Batman take off his mask?

  Chief O'Hara : The woman must be mad!

  Batman : Please... Chief O'Hara... all of you. This young lady is a stranger to our shores. Her request is not unnatural, however, impossible to grant.

  Miss Kitka : Impossible?

  Batman : Indeed. If Robin and I were to remove our masks, the secret of our true identities would be revealed.

  Commissioner Gordon : Completely destroying their value as ace crimefighters.

  Chief O'Hara : Sure, ma'am. Not even Commisioner Gordon and meself know who they really are.

  Robin : In fact, our own relatives we live with don't know.

  Miss Kitka : But your so curious costumes...

  Robin : Don't be put off by them, ma'am. Underneath this garb, we're perfectly ordinary Americans.

  Miss Kitka : You are like the masked vigilantes in the Westerns, no?

  Commissioner Gordon : Certainly not! Batman and Robin are fully deputized agents of the law.

  Robin : Support your police! That's our message!

  Batman : Well said, Robin... and no better way to end this press conference... thank you, and good day.

• The Catwoman : You dismal bird! You and your submarine, where has it got us now?

  The Penguin : Shut up, you feline floozy!

• The Catwoman : [meows]  You're going to see the purr-fect crime when I get Batman in my claws!

  [hisses] 

• [the Penguin's submarine has been fired upon by Batman and Robin] 

  The Catwoman : Penguin, you know I can't take water!

  The Penguin : You cowardly kitten! You want to live forever?

• Miss Kitka : About that dream you had...

  Bruce Wayne : Do we dare?

  Miss Kitka : Why not?

  Bruce Wayne : Yes, of course. Why not? Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action?

  Miss Kitka : Oh, into action, Comrade.

  Bruce Wayne : Miss Kitka, I have the strangest feeling that l am about to be utterly and madly carried away.

• 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 Catwoman : [speaking to her pet cat, Hecate]  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!

• Batman : [at a press conference]  You there, Miss...

  Miss Kitka : Comrade Kitanya lrenya Tatanya Karenska Alisoff. I am from "The Moscow Bugle".

  Batman : You grace us with your presence. May I be of service?

• Bruce Wayne : Kitka. Kitka, a charming acronym.

  Miss Kitka : Thank you, Comrade Wayne. You know, the fame of the Wayne Foundation is known from Leningrad to Kamchatka. It works for peace and understanding. But, your own picture has appeared countless times in "The Moscow Bugle".

  Bruce Wayne : I'm most grateful, I wasn't aware of that.

  Miss Kitka : Oh, da, da.

• Bruce Wayne : This curtain which separates our countries is so foolish. If we could just contrive some way of getting more deeply involved with each other.

  Miss Kitka : Oh, da. Da, we must search for such a method.

• Miss Kitka : Da, da. Keep your eyes closed. Continue with this dream.

  Bruce Wayne : The dream continues.

  Miss Kitka : Da, da.

  Bruce Wayne : lt approaches a climax.

  Miss Kitka : Not nyet. Not so fast. Be more slow.

• The Catwoman : [speaking on how much the four villains fight among themselves]  United Underworld! Hah! We're about as united as the United World Organization on the Gotham East River. What's the matter with you all?

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

  The Joker : Too 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!

• Bluebeard : Ahoy, Catwoman!

  Miss Kitka : [slaps him]  Imbecile, how many times have I told you? Never use my real name in public.

• 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.

• Bruce Wayne : You say you found these riddles written on Wayne Foundation stationery slipped under the door of your borrowed penthouse apartment?

  Miss Kitka : Yes, Comrade Wayne. That is why I brought them to you. At first, I thought it was some foolishness. But, then l remembered: is there not a bourgeois criminal cad in this country called the Riddler, who preys upon the workers of America?

  Bruce Wayne : Your jargon is quaint, Miss Kitka. But there is such a creature, I believe.

  Miss Kitka : What? What do we do now? Report these riddles to your police or perhaps to that masked Cossack, Batman?

  Bruce Wayne : Well, that's hardly necessary at the moment.

• Miss Kitka : Excuse me, I'll slip into something more comfortable while your cocoa is warming.

• Bruce Wayne : Quickly, wiggle around back-to-back. Maybe you can reach it with your fingers.

  Miss Kitka : Da.

• Bruce Wayne : I've got it. Why didn't l think of it sooner?

  Miss Kitka : Of what, Comrade Wayne?

  Bruce Wayne : Up my left sleeve I have a tiny radio transmitter strapped above my elbow.

  Miss Kitka : What a curious device to carry.

  Bruce Wayne : Not at all, Miss Kitka. Capitalists, like myself, who carry large sums of money, often have such safety contrivances.

• Bruce Wayne : "And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams, Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams."

  Miss Kitka : ... Comrade Wayne?

  Bruce Wayne : Edgar Allan Poe, Miss Kitka. "To One in Paradise," first stanza.

• The Catwoman : Oh, it's like a dream, Pengy-sweet. Nothing can stop us now.

• Miss Kitka : How purrfectly wonderful of you! Mmm. I close my eyes and l dream of all those savage Cossacks racing over the steppes on their brutal mission.

  Bruce Wayne : How strange. I close my eyes, and l dream of something quite astonishingly different.