Lions, Towers & Shields
by Shelly Brisbin
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140: Say More. Say It Now. Tell Us Everything!
Apr 25, 2026
1h 33m 07s
139: Femme Fatales Are Usually Smarter
Apr 17, 2026
1h 02m 40s
138: The Hot Ronald Colman
Apr 11, 2026
55m 34s
137: 714 Home Runs And At Least Two Murders
Apr 4, 2026
1h 27m 45s
136: The Tiffany of John Lunds
Mar 26, 2026
1h 07m 59s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/25/26 | 140: Say More. Say It Now. Tell Us Everything!✨ | musicalfilm review+4 | — | Stanley DonanFunny Face | — | Funny Facemusical+7 | — | 1h 33m 07s | |
| 4/17/26 | 139: Femme Fatales Are Usually Smarter✨ | noir filmsFritz Lang+3 | — | Scarlet StreetWoman in the Window+1 | — | Edward G. RobinsonJoan Bennett+2 | — | 1h 02m 40s | |
| 4/11/26 | 138: The Hot Ronald Colman✨ | filmsilent film+3 | — | Beau GesteThe Hot Ronald Colman | — | restorationmatinee idol+1 | — | 55m 34s | |
| 4/4/26 | 137: 714 Home Runs And At Least Two Murders✨ | baseball moviesdrafting+1 | — | LTS | — | baseballmovies+2 | — | 1h 27m 45s | |
| 3/26/26 | 136: The Tiffany of John Lunds✨ | baseballmovies+1 | — | — | — | Gary CooperLou Gehrig+1 | — | 1h 07m 59s | |
| 3/21/26 | 135: Call It A Noirlodrama✨ | noirfilm+3 | — | — | — | Dane ClarkGail Russell+3 | — | 1h 02m 44s | |
| 3/12/26 | 134: Hotness Is A Reason✨ | Gene Tierneycomedy+1 | — | — | — | film reviewscomedy+1 | — | 49m 11s | |
| 12/11/25 | 133: Clown Car Full of Raincoats✨ | Deanna DurbinGene Kelly+3 | — | — | — | filmreviews | — | 1h 08m 47s | |
| 12/4/25 | 132: Clothes, Cars and Acreage✨ | battle of the sexesfilm career+2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1h 02m 36s | |
| 11/13/25 | 131: Temu Cary Grant✨ | Billy Wilderalcoholism+2 | — | — | — | Ray MillandJane Wyman+2 | — | 59m 16s | |
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| 11/8/25 | 130: Big Teeth, Bad Hair✨ | evangelicalscharisma+2 | — | — | — | Burt LancasterJean Simmons+3 | — | 1h 02m 02s | |
| 10/30/25 | 129: There Are No Cars | he team behind our previous Spooky Season entry CAT PEOPLE — producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur — return with the Jane Eyre-inspired tale of a naive nurse summoned to a tropical island to care for a rich nepo baby’s ailing wife. But the patient’s malady may have a sinister, supernatural source. Get ready for an atmospheric, antiracist spookshow that’s a lot smarter than you’d think, subverting cheap voodoo-movie stereotypes in cool and surprising ways. Ah woe! Ah me! Shame and sorrow for the family! With guest host, Nathan Alderman.... | 55m 56s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | 128: Annette Bening Energy | Each season has its quota of film noir. So here we go. “A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.” It’s a B picture with fun performances, one of my favorite things. Meet John Payne, Evelyn Keyes and Brad Dexter, a non-superstar lineup that nonetheless pops off the screen.... | 35m 34s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | 127: Kind Of A Nice Snack | Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy podcast. Bette Davis in her most iconic role, attempts to fend off the usurping Anne Baxter. The drama plays out in the New York theatre. There’s a witty script and a delightful supporting cast, along with many legends about how this film came together. Come and feast with us around the camp fire.... | 1h 13m 01s | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | 126: The Women, with a Cat | Here is one of the greatest ensembles of the classic era - or any era, for that matter. Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucile Ball, Ann Miller, Eve Arden (and cat), Gail Patrick, Andrea Leads. Constance Collier, all sharing a theatrical boarding house in New York, and struggling to become big stars. Kate says something about calla lilies, and also snipes with Ginger. It’s so much fun!... | 1h 04m 12s | ||||||
| 7/25/25 | 125: Ugly Bette | If you can quote from “Casablanca” or “Gone with the Wind,” you can probably quote from “Now Voyager.” Or you could, with a little reminder. “Don’t let’s ask for the moon, when we have the stars.” And the Paul Henreid/Bette Davis cigarette-lighting move is here, too. Tis a stone cold classic of the romantic, weepy canon.... | 1h 15m 20s | ||||||
| 7/19/25 | 124: The First Feline Reference | We bring Stanwyck Summer (but not the LTS season) to a close with a draft-ish episode. Each panelist has brought us a Barbara Stanwyck film - one we haven’t talked about before on the show. Somehow, there are a number of cats.... | 1h 16m 10s | ||||||
| 7/11/25 | 123: Sorry, Long Movie | 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?... | 1h 09m 26s | ||||||
| 7/4/25 | 122: The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play | 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?... | 49m 52s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 | 121: Chekhov's Unbroken Hand | 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?... | 55m 58s | ||||||
| 6/19/25 | 120: Stella Dallas versus Veda Pierce | 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!... | 1h 10m 49s | ||||||
| 4/12/25 | 119: I'm Still Watching... | 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.... | 1h 28m 03s | ||||||
| 3/29/25 | 118: Planting Bulbs in the Spring | 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.... | 50m 04s | ||||||
| 3/22/25 | 117: Alligator Pears | 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.... | 1h 00m 20s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 | 116: His Personal Murder Concierge | If you meet up with Lawrence Tierney in a dark alley - or in a kitchen, for that matter - chances are the encounter won’t end well. Tierney is truly the bad boy of film noir, and no film shows it better than “Born to Kill.” Claire Trevor is great, as always, but I do question her taste in men. I imagine a few eyebrows raising at what the filmmaker gets away with here, including the brazen attitude of our leading man. And oh hey, Elisha Cook Jr. Is here, too, bringing all the gay subtext.... | 1h 03m 59s | ||||||
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