James Mellor

Batman aborde une phase décisive de sa guerre contre le crime à Gotham City. Avec l'aide du lieutenant de police Jim Gordon et du nouveau procureur Harvey Dent, il entreprend de démanteler les dernières organisations criminelles qui infestent les rues de la ville. L'association s'avère efficace, mais le trio se heurte bientôt à un nouveau génie du crime qui répand la terreur et le chaos dans Gotham : le Joker. On ne sait pas d'où il vient ni qui il est. Ce criminel possède une intelligence redoutable doublé d'un humour sordide et n'hésite pas à s'attaquer à la pègre locale dans le seul but de semer le chaos.

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche’s philosophy, duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music, and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.