Editing Doc Savage (section)

====''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil''====
According to the screenplay by [[Joe Morhaim]] that was posted on the Internet, as well as other archival and news accounts, ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil'' was based very loosely on the October 1934 pulp novel ''Death in Silver''. ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil'' would feature a deformed, German-speaking [[supervillain]], whose pet man-eating [[octopus]] was a nod to a similar plot element in the September 1937 pulp novel [[Feathered Octopus, The (Doc Savage)|''The Feathered Octopus'']].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp/dent/bib.pdf |title=A Lester Dent Bibliography by Will Murray, page 23 |access-date=April 5, 2011 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001192125/https://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp/dent/bib.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In fact, this screenplay was originally intended to be filmed as the first Doc Savage movie.  However, producer [[George Pal]] commissioned a second script based on the first Doc Savage pulp novel, [[Man of Bronze, The (Doc Savage)|''The Man of Bronze'']], because he felt the movie-going audience needed more background information about Doc and his origin.<ref name="Doc Savage Bibliography - Movies">[http://www.geocities.com/pulp.master/doc-savage.txt Doc Savage Bibliography – Movies] {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/pal_Doc+Savage.htm|title=File Not Found|website=www.colemanzone.com|access-date=April 2, 2018}}</ref>

Contemporary news accounts indicated that ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil'' had been filmed in the [[Lake Tahoe]] area simultaneously with the [[principal photography]] for the first Doc Savage film.<ref name="Doc Savage Bibliography - Movies"/>  However, due to the [[Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze#Reaction|poor reception]] of the first film, ''Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil'' was never completed or released. In an interview conducted in 2014, while he was filming the television movie ''[[Expecting Amish]]'', actor Ron Ely stated unequivocally that "no portion of ''The Arch Enemy of Evil'' was ''ever'' filmed, concurrently with ''The Man of Bronze'' or otherwise. That's a total myth."

Finally, in anticipation of a proposed ''Doc Savage'' TV series, George Pal commissioned a two-part teleplay by [[Alvin Sapinsley]] based on the May 1935 pulp novel [[Secret in the Sky, The (Doc Savage)|''The Secret in the Sky'']].  The teleplay was completed in January 1975, but due to the [[Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze#Reaction|poor reception]] of the first Doc Savage film, a [[Television pilot|pilot]] was never filmed.<ref>[http://content-backend-a.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf2s2004v6&chunk.id=c02-1.8.7.3.4 Doc Savage (1975):Box 1, Folder 5] {{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – Listing of George Pal Papers, 1937–1986 @ Arts Library Special Collections, [[UCLA]]</ref>