Paul Gleason, Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, 1975.  Cast and crew had already been paid when Chuck Connors’ Doc Savage project hit legal hassles, so the producers simply churned The Thousand Headed Man into  a Western, Ride Beyond Vengeance, 1965.   Bixby, 50% of the future TV Hulk, was set for Major Thomas J  “Long Tom” Roberts in what should have been the first Doc movie.  If they’d only bothered to secure the rights. As George Pal did in the 70s.