Just brilliant, luca. You covered everything.

I didn't know about Robin W missing out twice on a role in the early Batman franchise. Tough.

Yeah, I remember Mitchum as Max Cady - truly chilling performance in a haunting movie (sadly, the only time actor Charles Laughton officially stepped behind the camera).

No - wait! I am confusing Mitchum in Cape Fear with his even better performance in Night of the Hunter. But De Niro as Max Cady is up there, just above Hopkins (not Cox) as one of the scariest screen villains of all time.

Yeah, Jack's Joker is a flamboyant individual.

Heath's Joker is brilliant, but I didn't find him as menacing as I thought he would be. He was far too rivetting and entertaining to genuinely terrify the viewer. Of course, sentimentality surely must colour our appraisal of his fine and darkly nuanced performance.