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''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Literature/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD entry]] for serious details.
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''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Literature/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD IMDB entry]] for serious details.
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''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Franchise/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD entry]] for serious details.
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''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Franchise/DocSavage'' ''Literature/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD entry]] for serious details.
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* IKnowKarate: After Doc wrestles his gun off him, Seas wordlessly challenges our hero to hand-to-hand combat using various fighting styles, each introduced with InSceneTitleText. Doc proves his mastery in Sumo wrestling, Gung Fu, Tai Chichuan, Karate, Bo jijsu, and finally GoodOldFisticuffs.
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* IKnowKarate: After Doc wrestles his gun off him, Seas wordlessly challenges our hero to hand-to-hand combat using various fighting styles, each introduced with InSceneTitleText. Doc proves his mastery in Sumo wrestling, Gung Fu, Fu (kung fu), Tai Chichuan, Karate, Bo jijsu, jitsu, and finally GoodOldFisticuffs.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the movie our hero returns to his office to find an alarming message left on his answering machine by one of the Fabulous Five, causing him to race off in his car. We're then told that [[WillReturnCaption Doc will return]] in ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil''. Due to the mediocre response to the movie by both critics and audience, he didn't.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the movie movie, our hero returns to his office to find an alarming message left on his answering machine by one of the Fabulous Five, causing him to race off in his car. We're then told that [[WillReturnCaption Doc will return]] in ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil''. Due to the mediocre response to the movie by both critics and audience, he didn't.
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: After his capture Seas wants to know if he's going to be killed. A montage then shows that Doc (who of course is also a skilled surgeon) is able to do an operation on Seas' brain that will remove his criminal tendencies, whereupon he's reeducated as a law abiding member of society. This is one aspect that [[ValuesDissonance didn't translate well from the 1930s to the 1970s.]]
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: After his capture capture, Captain Seas wants to know if he's going to be killed. A montage then shows that Doc (who of course is also a skilled surgeon) is able to do an operation on Seas' brain that will remove his criminal tendencies, whereupon he's reeducated as a law abiding member of society. This is one aspect that [[ValuesDissonance didn't translate well from the 1930s to the 1970s.]]
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Doc. His training regime takes two hours every day and trains not only his muscles but also every sense. He's been doing since he was a child.
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* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation: Ham has a cane which can extend a short blade coated with an anesthetic drug. During the fight aboard the yacht with Captain Seas' thugs, Ham stabs two of them with the cane's blade. In each case, the thug smiles and falls unconscious.
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* LovesOnlyGold: Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]
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* LovesOnlyGold: Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]
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-> ''Who's the Hero of the Age?''
->''Doc Savage!''
->''Doc Savage!''
''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Franchise/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD entry]] for serious details.
Doc Savage (played by Ron Ely of ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' fame, supported by a cast of relatively obscure character actors and the rather pneumatic Pamela Hensley) is a polymath: he's a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, and researcher, trained from birth to have near superhuman strength and abilities. He has a "gang" of five associates (AKA the "Fabulous Five"), all of whom are utterly brilliant in their respective fields, from chemistry to engineering. They all served together in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The Great War]], rather like Literature/{{Biggles}} and his companions, if Biggles' crew had gone on to become [[ScienceHero science heroes]] after the war.
The film is distinctly {{camp}} and definitely does not take itself too seriously; just as well, as the story tends to telegraph exactly what comes next. It was created primarily to cash in on a resurgence in Doc's popularity that resulted from Dell republishing the series in paperback form in the late sixties and early seventies . (The poster is a ShoutOut to the Dell version's iconic James Bama "ripped shirt" covers.) Still, it's a reasonably enjoyable romp.
'''Plot'''
Long to short, Doc returns to his New York office from his Arctic Fortress of Solitude (which predated Superman's by more than two decades) having felt that something was wrong. It transpires that his father has died, leaving him a package of papers and tantalizing hints about the existence of a fabulous lost civilization high in the Andes.
Just as Doc is about to go through his father's papers, someone tries to kill him. Clearly, the assassin fails. Just as clearly, Doc must be on to something -- otherwise, why try to stop him? So Doc gathers his confederates and they depart for an adventure in South America. Unsurprisingly, there follows the obligatory hunt for truth, justice and oodles of treasure, and the good guys prevail.
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!! The film contains examples of these trope:
* AcePilot: The Fabulous Five are excellent pilots but Doc is better than any of them (as well he should be, considering he designed and built all of their airplanes himself.)
* AnachronismStew: Played with. Since Doc is a 1930's ScienceHero, his "futuristic" gadgets just happen to resemble 1970's helicopters and snowmobiles. (The obvious contrails in the "Andes" scenes are fairly amusing.)
* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the movie our hero returns to his office to find an alarming message left on his answering machine by one of the Fabulous Five, causing him to race off in his car. We're then told that [[WillReturnCaption Doc will return]] in ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil''. Due to the mediocre response to the movie by both critics and audience, he didn't.
* AnimalAssassin: Albeit a magic version; the Green Death take the form of green snakes that float through the air.
* AnimalCompanion: Monk's pig, which Ham finds rather annoying. He warms up to it after the pig saves their bacon.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: After his capture Seas wants to know if he's going to be killed. A montage then shows that Doc (who of course is also a skilled surgeon) is able to do an operation on Seas' brain that will remove his criminal tendencies, whereupon he's reeducated as a law abiding member of society. This is one aspect that [[ValuesDissonance didn't translate well from the 1930's to the 1970's.]]
* BraggingThemeTune: The main title theme is a paean to Doc Savage sung ToTheTuneOf John Philip Sousa's [[{{March}} ''The Thunderer'']].
-->''Have no Fear, the Man of Bronze is here! ''(WinkDing)''\\
Peace will come to all who find\\
Doc Savage, Doc Savage.\\
He's a [[AllLovingHero friend to all Mankind]].\\
[[IncorruptiblePurePureness Pure of heart and mind!]]\\
Who will make crime disappear?\\
Doc Savage, Doc Savage\\
Part [[TheHero hero]] and [[BoldExplorer pioneer]].\\
Thank the Lord he's here!''
* BulletDodge: Cool cucumber that he is, Doc dodges an assassin's bullet just by turning sideways.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Doc. His training regime takes two hours every day and trains not only his muscles but also every sense. He's been doing since he was a child.
* ClothingDamage: Although Doc does plenty of fighting in a suit, he changes to the appropriate AdventurerOutfit when they set forth into the jungle, which gets [[MythologyGag torn like a James Bama pulp cover]] during his final confrontation with Seas.
* CreditsGag: Every time John Philip Sousa's name appears in the credits the "USA" in Sousa are printed in red, white, and blue.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: Doc uses an electric fan to drive off the animated snake thingies.
* DeathByMaterialism: Don Rubio Gorro, in the middle of a hidden valley where a lake of molten gold is erupting, dances in glee, trying to catch the superheated metal in his pockets. Amazingly, he does not die from this, or even get burned as liquid gold splatters across him. However, when the hero and his allies leave the cave they took shelter in, they find him nothing but a [[AMoltenDateWithDeath statue, completely encased in gold]].
* EvilLaugh: Captain Seas, with his sycophantic guests all joining in.
* {{Eagleland}}: Unashamedly Flavor 1
* FakingTheDead: Our heroes fly to Hidalgo in Doc's personal aircraft, but a fighter biplane appears and shoots it down. Only it's being flown by remote control and everyone is safely on the ground, where they can take off safely after the biplane has gone. When they turn up in Hidalgo, Seas is not impressed and uses the Green Death to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill the pilot]].
* GadgeteersHouse: At the start of the movie Doc Savage is shown in his arctic Fortress of Solitude laboring on inventions that (TheNarrator declares) may one day be useful to Mankind! After gazing at the stars through a telescope, Doc appears to be building a RetroRocket to take him there, but it turns out to be a RubeGoldbergDevice for ice fishing.
* GeniusBruiser: All of them except Johnny, and while he's "frail" compared to the rest of them, ''just look at the rest of them.'' He's still no slouch in the fighting department.
* HallOfMirrors: A variation; an assassin takes a pot-shot at Doc through his office window, but the window glass is designed to refract the image so he appears to be standing in a different place.
* IKnowKarate: After Doc wrestles his gun off him, Seas wordlessly challenges our hero to hand-to-hand combat using various fighting styles, each introduced with InSceneTitleText. Doc proves his mastery in Sumo wrestling, Gung Fu, Tai Chichuan, Karate, Bo jijsu, and finally GoodOldFisticuffs.
* ImmuneToBullets
** The Green Death snakes can be disbursed by gunfire, but quickly reform again.
** Played with when Doc finds himself facing Captain Seas who's armed with a drum-fed Thompson submachine gun. While the [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Five jump over the yacht's side into the water]], Doc calmly advances on Seas, taking a hail of bullets in the chest to no effect. It looks like Doc has superpowers (his character ''did'' inspire Superman), but it's actually because he's wearing a BulletproofVest under his tux.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Doc tells Mona that despite being so campy, he's actually avoiding her because of this trope. He relates how his fiancée was [[IHaveYourWife kidnapped by the villains he was pursuing]], and he was forced to let them escape. Although she was returned safely, Doc decided to [[CelibateHero forgo any romantic entanglements]] that could be used to compromise his crusade against evil.
* KillTheLights: Captain Seas invites Doc and the Five to dinner, only for his waiters to produce guns after the meal and press them to our heroes' necks. Seas mockingly tells a member of the Five who's about to light up to enjoy OneLastSmoke, but it turns out his [[ShoePhone cigarette lighter has a laser gun]] that he uses to shoot out the chandelier, plunging the room into darkness so they can turn on their would-be assassins.
* LotusPosition: While meditating outside his Fortress of Solitude, Doc ([[ShirtlessScene dressed in a loincloth]] despite the [[ExposedToTheElements arctic temperatures]]) picks up the thought waves [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling of his companions in New York who've just got the news his father has died]].
* LovesOnlyGold: Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]
* ManChild: Don Rubio is seen using an over-sized baby cot as a bed.
* MeaningfulName
** After saying that [[MightMakesRight he just reaches out and seizes what he wants]], Captain Seas corrects the [[WhosOnFirst assumption that "seize" is his name]], which he actually took from the seas that he regards as his home.
** [[NonIndicativeName Averted with Doc Savage]], who's never savage in his behavior even when kicking ass. He does deserve "The Man of Bronze" however, with Ron Ely perfectly depicting our hero's legendary bronze coloration.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Inverted; Seas invites our heroes to dinner and only reveals himself as the villain ''after'' the meal.
-->'''Seas:''' Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner...because it's going to be your last.
* PaidHarem: Captain Seas is accompanied by two paramours, Adriana and Karen. This turns into a BrickJoke when he undergoes BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood and is seen at the end of TheMovie working as a Salvation Army bandleader, with the two girls looking rather bored while holding collection plates and singing along.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Johnny. In one scene he can't get through a door and complains that he's "Invidiously obstructed!" His friend tries another door and announces: [[LaymansTerms "This one's locked too!"]]
* SwordCane: Used by Ham and coated with a tranquilizer that makes the person stabbed [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul collapse with a silly grin on their face]].
* TwinkleInTheEye: In the TitleSequence, Doc gets an animated twinkle in his eye and WinkDing as the BraggingThemeTune commences.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Monk and Ham, though to [[{{Bowdlerize}} a much lesser extent than the books.]]
* WorldOfHam: And the one named Ham isn't even the hammiest of the bunch.
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-> ''Who's the Hero of the Age?''
->''Doc Savage!''
->''Doc Savage!''
''Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze'' is a 1975 action film produced by Creator/GeorgePal and directed by Michael Anderson, based on the 1930s and '40s ''Franchise/DocSavage'' pulp fiction series created by writer Lester Dent, editor John L. Nanovic and publisher Henry W. Ralston of Street & Smith Publications. See [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/ the IMBD entry]] for serious details.
Doc Savage (played by Ron Ely of ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' fame, supported by a cast of relatively obscure character actors and the rather pneumatic Pamela Hensley) is a polymath: he's a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, and researcher, trained from birth to have near superhuman strength and abilities. He has a "gang" of five associates (AKA the "Fabulous Five"), all of whom are utterly brilliant in their respective fields, from chemistry to engineering. They all served together in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI The Great War]], rather like Literature/{{Biggles}} and his companions, if Biggles' crew had gone on to become [[ScienceHero science heroes]] after the war.
The film is distinctly {{camp}} and definitely does not take itself too seriously; just as well, as the story tends to telegraph exactly what comes next. It was created primarily to cash in on a resurgence in Doc's popularity that resulted from Dell republishing the series in paperback form in the late sixties and early seventies . (The poster is a ShoutOut to the Dell version's iconic James Bama "ripped shirt" covers.) Still, it's a reasonably enjoyable romp.
'''Plot'''
Long to short, Doc returns to his New York office from his Arctic Fortress of Solitude (which predated Superman's by more than two decades) having felt that something was wrong. It transpires that his father has died, leaving him a package of papers and tantalizing hints about the existence of a fabulous lost civilization high in the Andes.
Just as Doc is about to go through his father's papers, someone tries to kill him. Clearly, the assassin fails. Just as clearly, Doc must be on to something -- otherwise, why try to stop him? So Doc gathers his confederates and they depart for an adventure in South America. Unsurprisingly, there follows the obligatory hunt for truth, justice and oodles of treasure, and the good guys prevail.
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!! The film contains examples of these trope:
* AcePilot: The Fabulous Five are excellent pilots but Doc is better than any of them (as well he should be, considering he designed and built all of their airplanes himself.)
* AnachronismStew: Played with. Since Doc is a 1930's ScienceHero, his "futuristic" gadgets just happen to resemble 1970's helicopters and snowmobiles. (The obvious contrails in the "Andes" scenes are fairly amusing.)
* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the movie our hero returns to his office to find an alarming message left on his answering machine by one of the Fabulous Five, causing him to race off in his car. We're then told that [[WillReturnCaption Doc will return]] in ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil''. Due to the mediocre response to the movie by both critics and audience, he didn't.
* AnimalAssassin: Albeit a magic version; the Green Death take the form of green snakes that float through the air.
* AnimalCompanion: Monk's pig, which Ham finds rather annoying. He warms up to it after the pig saves their bacon.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: After his capture Seas wants to know if he's going to be killed. A montage then shows that Doc (who of course is also a skilled surgeon) is able to do an operation on Seas' brain that will remove his criminal tendencies, whereupon he's reeducated as a law abiding member of society. This is one aspect that [[ValuesDissonance didn't translate well from the 1930's to the 1970's.]]
* BraggingThemeTune: The main title theme is a paean to Doc Savage sung ToTheTuneOf John Philip Sousa's [[{{March}} ''The Thunderer'']].
-->''Have no Fear, the Man of Bronze is here! ''(WinkDing)''\\
Peace will come to all who find\\
Doc Savage, Doc Savage.\\
He's a [[AllLovingHero friend to all Mankind]].\\
[[IncorruptiblePurePureness Pure of heart and mind!]]\\
Who will make crime disappear?\\
Doc Savage, Doc Savage\\
Part [[TheHero hero]] and [[BoldExplorer pioneer]].\\
Thank the Lord he's here!''
* BulletDodge: Cool cucumber that he is, Doc dodges an assassin's bullet just by turning sideways.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Doc. His training regime takes two hours every day and trains not only his muscles but also every sense. He's been doing since he was a child.
* ClothingDamage: Although Doc does plenty of fighting in a suit, he changes to the appropriate AdventurerOutfit when they set forth into the jungle, which gets [[MythologyGag torn like a James Bama pulp cover]] during his final confrontation with Seas.
* CreditsGag: Every time John Philip Sousa's name appears in the credits the "USA" in Sousa are printed in red, white, and blue.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: Doc uses an electric fan to drive off the animated snake thingies.
* DeathByMaterialism: Don Rubio Gorro, in the middle of a hidden valley where a lake of molten gold is erupting, dances in glee, trying to catch the superheated metal in his pockets. Amazingly, he does not die from this, or even get burned as liquid gold splatters across him. However, when the hero and his allies leave the cave they took shelter in, they find him nothing but a [[AMoltenDateWithDeath statue, completely encased in gold]].
* EvilLaugh: Captain Seas, with his sycophantic guests all joining in.
* {{Eagleland}}: Unashamedly Flavor 1
* FakingTheDead: Our heroes fly to Hidalgo in Doc's personal aircraft, but a fighter biplane appears and shoots it down. Only it's being flown by remote control and everyone is safely on the ground, where they can take off safely after the biplane has gone. When they turn up in Hidalgo, Seas is not impressed and uses the Green Death to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill the pilot]].
* GadgeteersHouse: At the start of the movie Doc Savage is shown in his arctic Fortress of Solitude laboring on inventions that (TheNarrator declares) may one day be useful to Mankind! After gazing at the stars through a telescope, Doc appears to be building a RetroRocket to take him there, but it turns out to be a RubeGoldbergDevice for ice fishing.
* GeniusBruiser: All of them except Johnny, and while he's "frail" compared to the rest of them, ''just look at the rest of them.'' He's still no slouch in the fighting department.
* HallOfMirrors: A variation; an assassin takes a pot-shot at Doc through his office window, but the window glass is designed to refract the image so he appears to be standing in a different place.
* IKnowKarate: After Doc wrestles his gun off him, Seas wordlessly challenges our hero to hand-to-hand combat using various fighting styles, each introduced with InSceneTitleText. Doc proves his mastery in Sumo wrestling, Gung Fu, Tai Chichuan, Karate, Bo jijsu, and finally GoodOldFisticuffs.
* ImmuneToBullets
** The Green Death snakes can be disbursed by gunfire, but quickly reform again.
** Played with when Doc finds himself facing Captain Seas who's armed with a drum-fed Thompson submachine gun. While the [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Five jump over the yacht's side into the water]], Doc calmly advances on Seas, taking a hail of bullets in the chest to no effect. It looks like Doc has superpowers (his character ''did'' inspire Superman), but it's actually because he's wearing a BulletproofVest under his tux.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Doc tells Mona that despite being so campy, he's actually avoiding her because of this trope. He relates how his fiancée was [[IHaveYourWife kidnapped by the villains he was pursuing]], and he was forced to let them escape. Although she was returned safely, Doc decided to [[CelibateHero forgo any romantic entanglements]] that could be used to compromise his crusade against evil.
* KillTheLights: Captain Seas invites Doc and the Five to dinner, only for his waiters to produce guns after the meal and press them to our heroes' necks. Seas mockingly tells a member of the Five who's about to light up to enjoy OneLastSmoke, but it turns out his [[ShoePhone cigarette lighter has a laser gun]] that he uses to shoot out the chandelier, plunging the room into darkness so they can turn on their would-be assassins.
* LotusPosition: While meditating outside his Fortress of Solitude, Doc ([[ShirtlessScene dressed in a loincloth]] despite the [[ExposedToTheElements arctic temperatures]]) picks up the thought waves [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling of his companions in New York who've just got the news his father has died]].
* LovesOnlyGold: Captain Seas murders Doc Savage's father in order to gain control of land in the Republic of Hidalgo, so he can mine its rich deposit of gold. However, he wants to control the gold flow to make money, as opposed to being interested in the gold for its own sake. On the other hand, Seas' ally in his endeavor is the even greedier CorruptBureaucrat [[ManChild Don Rubio Gorro]]. Gorro is ''so'' obsessed with gold that when dynamite is thrown into a lake of molten gold during the final battle results in an explosion sending the liquid metal into the air, Gorro rushes out to try and catch the raining droplets in his bare hands, and ends up dying be being covered in the liquid gold, which hardens, turning him into a [[TakenForGranite gold "statue."]]
* ManChild: Don Rubio is seen using an over-sized baby cot as a bed.
* MeaningfulName
** After saying that [[MightMakesRight he just reaches out and seizes what he wants]], Captain Seas corrects the [[WhosOnFirst assumption that "seize" is his name]], which he actually took from the seas that he regards as his home.
** [[NonIndicativeName Averted with Doc Savage]], who's never savage in his behavior even when kicking ass. He does deserve "The Man of Bronze" however, with Ron Ely perfectly depicting our hero's legendary bronze coloration.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Inverted; Seas invites our heroes to dinner and only reveals himself as the villain ''after'' the meal.
-->'''Seas:''' Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed your dinner...because it's going to be your last.
* PaidHarem: Captain Seas is accompanied by two paramours, Adriana and Karen. This turns into a BrickJoke when he undergoes BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood and is seen at the end of TheMovie working as a Salvation Army bandleader, with the two girls looking rather bored while holding collection plates and singing along.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Johnny. In one scene he can't get through a door and complains that he's "Invidiously obstructed!" His friend tries another door and announces: [[LaymansTerms "This one's locked too!"]]
* SwordCane: Used by Ham and coated with a tranquilizer that makes the person stabbed [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul collapse with a silly grin on their face]].
* TwinkleInTheEye: In the TitleSequence, Doc gets an animated twinkle in his eye and WinkDing as the BraggingThemeTune commences.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Monk and Ham, though to [[{{Bowdlerize}} a much lesser extent than the books.]]
* WorldOfHam: And the one named Ham isn't even the hammiest of the bunch.
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