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  • 124: The First Feline Reference
    2025/07/19
    We bring Stanwyck Summer (but not the LTS season) to a close with a draft-ish episode. Each panelist has btought us a Barbara Stanwyck film - one we haven’t talked about before on the show. Somehow, were are a number of cats.

    Shelly Brisbin with Micheline Maynard, Nathan Alderman and Randy Dotinga.

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    1 時間 16 分
  • 123: Sorry, Long Movie
    2025/07/11
    This time, Stanwyck is an invalid, who’s having trouble with her phone. I would call it a straight-up female victim tale, but Babs is not what you’d call sympathetic as a character. Even so, should her husband (Burt Lancaster) be plotting her death?

    Shelly Brisbin with David J. Loehr, Micheline Maynard, Nathan Alderman and Randy Dotinga.

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    1 時間 9 分
  • 122: The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play
    2025/07/04
    Stanwyck Summer continues with a “noir tragedy.” She finds herself involved with Kirk Douglas (his film debut), Van Heflin and Lizbeth Scott. Did Missy kill her very mean aunt, many years ago? Let’s find out, shall we?

    Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, Micheline Maynard and Randy Dotinga.

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    50 分
  • 121: Chekhov's Unbroken Hand
    2025/06/27
    Barbara Stanwyck (Lorna) in a boxing movie? OK, sure. But you’ll also see the film that began her lifelong friendship with William Holden. Bill (Joe) is a violinist who wants to try his hand at boxing. Because there’s money in that. Stanwyck’s Lorna is the girl who loves him. What price must Joe pay to become a success?

    Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, Micheline Maynard and Randy Dotinga.

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    56 分
  • 120: Stella Dallas versus Veda Pierce
    2025/06/19
    We begin Stanwyck Summer with one of her most iconic films, and greatest performances. Stella Dallas is pure melodrama, so sudsy that the name was taken by a radio soap opera. Stella is a working-class woman with a daughter she wants to give all the things she never had. Will she succeed? Will her daughter be grateful? Tune in tomorrow!

    Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, Randy Dotinga and Micheline Maynard.

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    1 時間 11 分
  • 119: I'm Still Watching...
    2025/04/12
    This George Stevens (best director Oscar) epic looms large. It’s a classic “roadshow” film of the 1950s, complete with West Texas vistas, Technicolor, big stars like Rock (Hudson), Liz (Taylor) and Jimmy (Dean), but no intermission, even though it’s three hours long! It also looms large in the history of the Texas towns (Marfa and Valentine) where it was filmed. I’ve grown up with stories of people tangentially touched by the production, and there are songs that celebrate, or sometimes give the side eye to, the whole thing.

    Shelly Brisbin with Laura Rice, Micheline Maynard, David J. Loehr and Randy Dotinga.

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    1 時間 28 分
  • 118: Planting Bulbs in the Spring
    2025/03/29
    Bette Davis brings the melodrama, right here in the imperial phase of her Warner Brothers career. She’s rich, she’s spoiled. Oopsie. She has a health crisis! Will she become a better person? Will she find love? Will she out-act Humphrey Bogart, George Brent (yeah she will) and Geraldine Fitzgerald? Will your host have a take almost none of the reviews she’s read have? Let’s find out together.

    Shelly Brisbin with Annette Wierstra, Nathan Alderman and Micheline Maynard.

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    50 分
  • 117: Alligator Pears
    2025/03/22
    The first film Fritz Lang made in the US after he fled the Nazis, Fury is the story of a man who is lynched by the residents of a small town. The film is not a groundbreaking 1950s independent production, but an MGM star vehicle from 1936, featuring one of the studio’s then newest stars, Spencer Tracy. It’s not even Fritz Lang’s best film, but you’ll see some groundbreaking technique here.

    Shelly Brisbin with Nathan Alderman, Randy Dotinga and Micheline Maynard.

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    1 時間