![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, a spanking has as much predictive power as Chekhov’s first act gun. In Lucky Star (1929), In the Navy (1941), The Flame of Araby (1951), and other films, the spanking is the first serious step toward romance. wasn’t the only one getting spanked, just one of few women off-screen who didn’t mind. The film spanking was both a mirror and a model-Mrs. It was, in countless period pieces, a way to revise history, to reassure Americans that the liberated woman had always been a problem and there was a time-honored, lovingly disciplinary solution. It was comfort for a culture uneasy about the advance of women’s liberation. ![]() From the beginnings of cinema up through the 1960s, a spanking was just a routine part of a certain type of screen romance: watch the supercut below.įor decades, in movie after movie, wily women were rendered the children of the men who loved them. Though the movie culminates in a minute-long spanking of its star Yvonne De Carlo, the plot device was so unremarkable as to not even make the reviews. Frontier Gal was one of at least five movies with scenes of women being spanked released in 1945 alone. The letter is mysterious-is it describing erotic play, or spousal abuse?-but the context is less so. ![]()
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