Inspired by Real Events
Doc Anderson was a real man. He survives in newspaper clippings, family photographs, sworn affidavits, and the half-mythologized memories of everyone who crossed his path. The stories are documented. The man refuses to be.
This film doesn't try to explain him or debunk him. The evidence points both ways, and the script lets it. Instead, it asks a more human question: what happens to a person who sees too much of the world, and still has to live in it? Doc Anderson can't be verified. He can only be witnessed.
This film doesn't try to explain him or debunk him. The evidence points both ways, and the script lets it. Instead, it asks a more human question: what happens to a person who sees too much of the world, and still has to live in it? Doc Anderson can't be verified. He can only be witnessed.
Doc in the 1940s
In his office on his famous chair
Bullfighting promo photo
Doc with Doris Day
Doc Anderson in the 1970s
Young Doc
Doc with Eddie Albert
Doc breaks glass with concentration
Doc with Denver Pyle
Young bullfighter
Young boxer
Doc showing stigmata
Doc with Mike Mazurki and Charlton Heston
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