Doc Savage and Rollerball: Pamela Hensley’s 1975

1975 was a unique year for the actress Pamela Hensley. She appeared in two motion pictures, and her roles were both strikingly different and eerily similar. One film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, was a campy adventure with aspirations to be a blockbuster. Its tone was upbeat and innocent. She plays Mona, a loveContinue reading “Doc Savage and Rollerball: Pamela Hensley’s 1975”

Rickie Talos screen tests as Pat Savage

Nudging the characters from the Doc Savage canon toward the “real world” can be great fun, offering the opportunity to create historical moments that really ought to be true. For instance…before the 70’s film version of Doc Savage tanked at the box office, there was quite a bit of expectation that a second film wouldContinue reading “Rickie Talos screen tests as Pat Savage”