it have say that the movie and baseball both thrive during the great depression . it appear that the grim reality of a nation catch up in the aftermath of this economic disaster create a need for occasional relief for the populace . a temporary escape could be find in the on go soap opera that be baseball . likewise and an occasional excursion of 2 or 3 hour into the darkened auditorium of the cinema . the presence of a radio in just about everyone house hold keep depression era america at once attune to world event and provide many a drama and ( especially ) comedy show for a pleasant interlude from harsh reality . the literature of the time also flourish at all level . the juvenile read habit help to create the comic book a we know it and what with all the fantastic character and super exciting adventure . but the comic book just do not magically appear and all fully develop with all the colorful 4 color page and all by itself . there be medium that be ancestral to them . obviously and the newspaper comic strip be one parent and provide the visual or narrative method of story telling . the other direct ancestor be the pulp magazine . the inexpensive and prose story publication that carry a great deal of story of the same adventure character in on go and though not necessarily serialize and tale . the pulp medium have be around for some decade and introduce u to edgar rice borrough tarzan and johnston mcculley zorro . the 1930 bring forth a bumper crop a feature character like the shadow and the avenger and g8 battle ace and the spider and master of men all find their way to the news stand and among many others . one other be doc savage and a full blood super hero of the write story while the cover of the pulp have perhaps and the only picture of the hero . possess extraordinary strength and super keen sens and a protean genius class intellect and doc be the prototype super hero . he also assemble 5 of his former army buddy into a small and free lance team of adventurer . each of them be an expert in a give field . so we have a top rat represent chemist and lawyer and construction engineer and electrical engineer and geologist archaeologist paleontologist and etc . the doc savage story be very popular in the 1930 and 40 and and be publish into the middle 50 . then they go into a hiatus for a good 12 15 year . then the brainstorm come about to repackage the old novel in new container and the paperback book . a fresh look to the cover art be introduce and feature a highly stylized series of painting of a very muscular doc and with a perpetually rip shirt . the re introduction prove to be highly successful and with the publication of a title a month ( and for a while more ) . soon and there be a rumor of a doc savage movie . but when and by what producer . well and the venerable man of bronze be back on the news stand for over 10 year before any real project get put together . it be veteran stop action animator and producer of top special effect film and geoprge pal and who do the film along with warner brother . when doc savage and man of bronze arrive in the movie house and it boast of a well cast team of actor and albeit a largely no name a far familiarity with the viewer . with former tarzan of tv and ron ely nearly perfect casting in the lead and up and come beauty of a starlette and pamela hensley in the female lead and veteran character paul wexler ( a the villainous and captain sea ) while no other name would have be recognize . and and just maybe that be a plus in this case . the story do a fine job of both get most of the audience acquaint with the incredible group and at the same time get a plot go . use of narration and by paul free and and short film clip be the method pursue to move the introduction along to the main body of the story . from the very start and there be hint that this story will go with the same sort of manufactured camp humor a the batman tv series . some really great look early scene involve doc and the whole crew do their individual specialty be throw toward humor by the paul free narration and the unexpected and unlikely outcome . ( for example and an experiment of doc with a miniature rocket or missile turn out to be part of a method of catch fish and a small one at that . ) the whole story unfolds like that and hit the viewer with a little camp every so often and a to keep remind u not to take it too seriously . we be also puzzle about mr. george pal be the producer ( his last ) . he who have be so well know for special effect and surely a factor that could be put to good use in a sci fi action setting of the pulp character world . i can remember see it quite vividly . mrs. ryan ( deanna ) be in the hospital and just have give birth to our 2nd child and michelle ( 08/14/75 ) . our old girl and jennifer and be visit her grandmother and so after visit hour be over in the maternity ward and it be straight over to the old marquette theatre and 63rd and kedzie and here in chicago . have see it and be a guy with a good familiarity with doc and i be sort of let down by the final product . i could accept a little of this camp business and but would not have object if mr. pal would have see fit to let it all hang out and have some real neat dinosaur and volcano to give it all a little more pulp or comic or serial type excitement . and yet and the cast and head up by mr. ely and the others and make the whole film likable and if not lovable . the set and location be and as far a we can see and very much like those of a 30 serial or adventure flick which would be enjoyable to about anyone . and maybe that just what they be try for with this doc savage and man of bronze .