I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" was a hit single in 1967 composed by British songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. It was a novelty record, performed mostly by whistling. The name Whistling Jack Smith, credited on the most commercially successful recording, was a play on the name of the baritone singer of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Whispering Jack Smith. The tune was written by Greenaway and Cook and was originally titled "Too Much Birdseed". It was recorded as a single for Deram Records by record producer Noel Walker, using studio musicians together with the
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien was written and directed by the Tyrolean Luis Trenker, who also starred as Johann Sutter. Trenker had previously directed "Der verlorene Sohn" (The Prodigal Son, 1934), the story of an Alpine immigrant in New York City, which is the only other film produced in Nazi Germany with scenes photographed on location in the United States. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien The Kaiser of California, better known as "The Emperor of California" (German "Der Kaiser von Kalifornien"), is a 1936 film that has the distinction of being the first western film made in Nazi Germany. Some exterior scenes were even shot on