The Old Doc Movie

[Victor DeLong]

DLed it and watched it last night for the first time in 20 years or so.
Gawd it's even worse than I remembered. There was just enough there to make
you realize that George Pal and/or the writer had at least read some Doc, as
in "Do a Barney Oldfield" or having Doc stand on the running board of the
Cord, but I think that made it even worse than if they had just abandoned
all the mythos and started from scratch. Our Doc wouldn't have his name on
everything from his snowmobile to his airplane, and that Fortress of
Solitude was barely bigger than my bathroom. The first time I tried to play
it last night it was in German, but I eventually figured out the problem and
switched to the English audio track. I'm thinking I may have been better
off if I had just left it in German . . .

[Chuck Michael]

Post by Victor DeLong
DLed it and watched it last night for the first time in 20 years or so.
Gawd it's even worse than I remembered. There was just enough there to
make you realize that George Pal and/or the writer had at least read some
Doc, as in "Do a Barney Oldfield" or having Doc stand on the running board
of the Cord, but I think that made it even worse than if they had just
abandoned all the mythos and started from scratch. Our Doc wouldn't have
his name on everything from his snowmobile to his airplane, and that
Fortress of Solitude was barely bigger than my bathroom. The first time I
tried to play it last night it was in German, but I eventually figured out
the problem and switched to the English audio track. I'm thinking I may
have been better off if I had just left it in German . . .

He may not have had his name on everything, but in the early books every
type of craft he owned was painted bronze. Distinctive enough to cause him
enough trouble to finally quit doing it.

Chuck

[Anim8rFSK]

Post by Chuck Michael

Post by Victor DeLong
DLed it and watched it last night for the first time in 20 years or so.
Gawd it's even worse than I remembered. There was just enough there to
make you realize that George Pal and/or the writer had at least read some
Doc, as in "Do a Barney Oldfield" or having Doc stand on the running board
of the Cord, but I think that made it even worse than if they had just
abandoned all the mythos and started from scratch. Our Doc wouldn't have
his name on everything from his snowmobile to his airplane, and that
Fortress of Solitude was barely bigger than my bathroom. The first time I
tried to play it last night it was in German, but I eventually figured out
the problem and switched to the English audio track. I'm thinking I may
have been better off if I had just left it in German . . .

He may not have had his name on everything, but in the early books every
type of craft he owned was painted bronze. Distinctive enough to cause him
enough trouble to finally quit doing it.
Chuck

Didn't he have custom license plates too?

[Anim8rFSK]

Post by Victor DeLong
DLed it and watched it last night for the first time in 20 years or so.
Gawd it's even worse than I remembered. There was just enough there to make
you realize that George Pal and/or the writer had at least read some Doc, as
in "Do a Barney Oldfield" or having Doc stand on the running board of the
Cord, but I think that made it even worse than if they had just abandoned
all the mythos and started from scratch. Our Doc wouldn't have his name on
everything from his snowmobile to his airplane, and that Fortress of
Solitude was barely bigger than my bathroom. The first time I tried to play
it last night it was in German, but I eventually figured out the problem and
switched to the English audio track. I'm thinking I may have been better
off if I had just left it in German . . .

I was annoyed with them living in a giant gargoyle instead of the Empire
State Building; I wonder if the ESB was charging to use it's likeness
back then?

And Pamela Hensley would have made a *great* princess, in appropriately
skimpy outfits.

[Dave]

I did actualy make it through the DVD of DOC with the younger
grandsons (ages 7 and 5), though I did sleep all the way from the
capital of Hidalgo tothe Valley of the Vanished, and that helped a
lot.

In the books, DOC is often described as having special low-number
licennse plates that mark him as a VIP.

When you recall what the BUCK ROGERS folks did with PamelaHensley, you
realize how awful the costume designer was for DOC (except for the to-
die-for bronze tuxedo)

dave

[Kent Allard]

Post by Anim8rFSK
I was annoyed with them living in a giant gargoyle instead of the Empire
State Building; I wonder if the ESB was charging to use it's likeness
back then?

That was a poorly scaled version of the eagles on the Chrysler Building.

You can see 5 of them here...

http://www.spiread.com/blog/2009/07/19/spire-the-meaning-behind-our-company-name

...just before the building tapers in a bit.


Here's a close-up

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And this shows the true scale...


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