cult film freak: darrell zwirling

Written by James M. Tate / 3/12/2022 / No comments / action , camp , darrell zwirling , ensemble , janice heiden , pamela hensley , paul gleason , paul wexler , pulp , robyn hilton , ron ely , seventies , warner archives , william lucking

RON ELY AS 'DOC SAVAGE: MAN OF BRONZE' WITH ROBYN HILTON

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMshmmh8oL-LVPWz3LaUhA-PhQ-9cUiibxhDc60Wg1ZNFvl13jHgAyfTJzgCQIrBXx594CyEQg4xLusqrCCu_fSIojXcGoisVhyK6rne-oDgSFv6hCx4hk1L0pp2tBL02yitFkePGnQdGyZ12GP-jGdphLi9scf-QQ_-Ml65-R5iargxlbRzBFhKY_6Q/s1168/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-23%20at%208.25.11%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1168" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMshmmh8oL-LVPWz3LaUhA-PhQ-9cUiibxhDc60Wg1ZNFvl13jHgAyfTJzgCQIrBXx594CyEQg4xLusqrCCu_fSIojXcGoisVhyK6rne-oDgSFv6hCx4hk1L0pp2tBL02yitFkePGnQdGyZ12GP-jGdphLi9scf-QQ_-Ml65-R5iargxlbRzBFhKY_6Q/w400-h258/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-23%20at%208.25.11%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Doc Savage YEAR: 1976</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Just when you thought you'd seen everything, up comes something you missed because of being too young at the time and then, older, you discover a curio that epitomizes lost cult phenomena...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robyn Hilton</u></td></tr>
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For DOC SAVAGE, the last film backed by the original WAR OF THE WORLDS producer George Pal and directed by Michael Anderson before the beloved LOGAN'S RUN and maligned MARTIAN CHRONICLES, is almost beyond words, centering on TARZAN stud Ron Ely playing a scientist just as smart as he's fit and equally tough and well-read and who, along with five partners including muscular construction developer William Lucking and young BREAKFAST CLUB detention lord and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/02/VForce.html">VIGILANTE FORCE</a> thug Paul Gleason as a few of the men under Doc's supervision that really don't do much but marvel at boss's glory, which includes gadgetry the likes of the then-popular Roger Moore James Bond films...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sexy bimbos Janice Heiden and Robyn Hilton </u></td></tr>
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And fight scenes trying for the Kung Fu craze and mirroring just about everything the drive-in 70's had to offer and, although theatrical, SAVAGE plays out like the pilot episode of a television series that never came to be (a sequel was mostly filmed and then scrapped following poor box office returns), with a low-voiced, antique radio SHADOW style narrator basking in what sounds like intentional camp yet Ely's ultra-serious nature within the plot-line, trying to find out how his father was killed in South America while being toyed with by an intentionally charming villain named Captain Seas, wherein the late Paul Wexler looks so much like the Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes stock actor (and beyond) Timothy Carey, if you narrow your eyes it's as if Carey were, actually, during the KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE era, right on board...<br>

action, camp, darrell zwirling, ensemble, janice heiden, pamela hensley, paul gleason, paul wexler, pulp, robyn hilton, ron ely, seventies, warner archives, william lucking

RON ELY AS 'DOC SAVAGE: MAN OF BRONZE' WITH ROBYN HILTON

Doc Savage YEAR: 1976 Just when you thought you'd seen everything, up comes something you missed because of being too young at the time...

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