Doc Savage - The man made of bronze

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Movie
German title Doc Savage - The man made of bronze
Original title Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Anderson
script Lester Dent (based on a novel)
Joe Morhaim
George Pal
production Warner Bros. ( George Pal )
music Don Black
Frank De Vol
John Philip Sousa (theme song)
camera Fred J. Koenekamp
cut Thomas J. McCarthy
occupation

Doc Savage is an adventure film by British director Michael Anderson from 1975, based on the novel series of the same name from the 1930s.

content

Clark "Doc" Savage, Jr. With his extraordinary mental abilities in his " Fortress of Solitude " in the Arctic , he feels that something must have happened to his father in the South American jungle. When he returned to his headquarters on the 86th floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan , he was immediately attacked. An apparently South American native blows up his safe with a document from his father and then dies in a fall from a skyscraper.

Doc Savage and his companions, the "Famous Five", equip an expedition to South America and after many more entanglements come on the trail of the crazy Captain Seas , who makes the natives submissive with the mysterious gas "Green Death" and behind a gold well that Doc inherited from his father.

reception

The film is a satire of the adventure genre and thus exaggerates the portrayal of the characters. Doc Savage is the tough "American American" (played by ex-TV Tarzan Ron Ely ), but his auxiliaries, the "Famous Five" of the novel (all former high-ranking officers or famous scientists), only appear as jokes. The main villain Captain Seas always comes up with new attacks, which Doc of course always survives in order to ultimately resemble the cover of the novel (with a half-naked torso and a torn shirt).

The film was supposed to represent the beginning of film adaptations of well-known Pulp heroes by Warner Bros., which was not pursued after the poor box office results.

Others

  • The film was the last production of the famous fantasy and science fiction producer George Pal .
  • Outstanding in the film is the tongue-in-cheek introductory march written by John Philip Sousa . In the credits, the letters U S A in his surname are highlighted in the American national colors red, white, blue.
  • In 1999 the film company Warner Bros. registered four Internet domain names relating to “Doc Savage”. It is possible that there are even more serious films to be made in the course of the current superhero films.

Premieres

  • USA in June 1975
  • Germany July 11th 1975

Awards

Reviews

  • The mixture of fantastic future technology with naive clumsiness is as silly as it is amusing. The veteran Michael Anderson applied it so thickly with constant ironic blinking that he constantly balanicert on the butt to parody. The role of Doc Savage is occupied by the former Tarzan actor Ron Ely, a prime example of mindless overconfidence, John Philip Sousa contributes his patriotically cheering march, which is humorously orchestrated by Frank de Vol, as the ideal background. This is really kitsch for everyone: for intellectuals who enjoy themselves and for naive people who want to admire.

FILMDIENST , quoted from Hahn / Jansen, p. 96.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used