Updated: Doc Savage & other Pulp Heroes - a film & TV sampler
Stephen Arnell
Broadcast/VoD Consultant for TV & Film, Writer/Producer (Bob Fosse, Alex Cox, Prince, Sinatra etc), Media/Culture Commentator (BBC Radio, magazines, newspapers) & author (novel The Great One published November 2022)
The 1975 movie was a camp romp that I still enjoy; and the theme song appears to have influenced Captain America: The First Avenger's (2011) war bond fund raising 'Star Spangled Man' show tune, the one where earns the insult "Nice boots, Tinkerbell!"
Savage lobotomises his opponent Captain Seas (Paul Wexler) after defeating him at the end of the picture.
Not cool Doc...not cool.
Jupiter's Legacy (2021)
Princess of Mars (2009) - full movie
The Spirit (2008)?
Dick Tracy (1990)
Nick Carter (1940)
Nick Carter (1972)
The Sea Wolf (2009 - Jack London's character of Wolf Larson)
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
John Carter (2012)
Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982-3)
Banyon (1972-3)
The Dain Curse (1979)
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982-3)
Lassiter (1984)
High Road to China (1983)
The Shadow (1994)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
The Phantom (1996)
Solomon Kane (2009)
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
Conan The Barbarian - full movie (1982)
Flash Gordon (1936)
Buck Rogers (1939)
Nero Wolfe (2001-2)
The Charmer (1987)
The Mysterious Mr M?(1947)
First of the Summer Wine (1988)
And no, I didn't forget Indiana Jones...
Ron Ely as Savage, looking strangely like actor Matthew 'Downton' Goode
Ely also played Tarzan in the fondly remembered 1960s TV series (1966-68) and as an aged Kal-El/'Mr Whippy' in Superboy (1988-92).