Doc


I realize that Doc was released from prison and obviously had no contact with women. This justified his shrewd behavior- peeking at the semi-nude girls in the calendar, talking about pretty women in Mexico but the juke box scene confuses me. Here Doc has all the jewels, a cab ride hundreds of miles away from the heat but his creepy infatuation with the teen girl dancing ultimately dooms his fate. Was Doc impotent? Was he only interested in voyeuristic sex? Was he interested in teen girls? Doc was by no means a ladies man but he could have bought the finest hookers for the rest of his life and lived like a king. Doc even asks the policemen how long they were watching: 2 minutes of staring at a teenager dancing doesn't make sense.


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Well, all production code technicalities aside - which would have barred any obvious reference to getting laid, Doc obviously had an eye for the girls. We can fairly suspect he'd be having more than drinks while surrounded by pretty girls, if he'd ever made it down to Mexico. But in short, Doc getting some immediate sexual action right out of the joint was just not part of the story.

Near the end, we're lead to believe that his downfall was due to two minutes of indulging in the simple pleasure of appreciating a young woman dancing. Being his one real weakness, that was the thing that kept him from being the only character in the story to get away with the caper scott free.



"I like rich people. I like the way they live. I like they way I live when I'm with them."

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I don't see how you're conjuring up a fascination with teenage girls from anything Doc did or said. The "teen" girl in dancing in the diner was no teenager. The actress who played her, Helene Stanley, was 21 at the time the movie was made. 21 is not a teenager. That's a grown woman. He asked the cop how long they had been watching because he wondered if he would have gotten away had he not been infatuated by the dancing gal and left the diner a few minutes earlier (probably so). And there's nothing shrewd about looking at Vargas girls on a calendar that was hung on the wall for all to see, nor was there anything creepy about a grown man viewing them. Those were renderings of bikini-clad adult women as well, not teenagers. What was shrewd was the caper that Doc drew up. Unfortunately, not all went as planned.

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Well, it's fairly common for young women of legal age to portray teens in films. The scene in the movie is of two boys and a girl drinking Cokes in a roadside diner. A typical place teens would go in that era. If they were of age they would be in a nightclub drinking alcohol.

It's implied several times in the film that Doc likes young ones. He looks at a pin-up calendar where the girls appear to be quite young. He mentions retiring to Mexico and chasing young girls around the beach. When Dix and him are exiting the old deserted railroad station, the policeman tells them to stay out of there, and that young punks have been bringing girls in there. Doc's interest is peaked, and he says "is that so", as if he's contemplating a voyeuristic opportunity. Finally it's the infatuation with the girl in the diner.

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Several of the characters had a weakness which lead to their demise. The bookie was an alcoholic, the rich man was vain, doc was greedy and a womaniser. That's the nature of tragedy.

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I wouldn't classify Doc as a womanizer. At this point in his life he likes to watch.

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