<p>Someone suggested we honor the films of 1926 &#8212; 100 years ago &#8212; and so we shall. Beau Geste has been remade often, but here is the original, starring Ronald Colman in his matinee idol period. S recent massive restoration of the film has the film looking great, with lots of footage restored. It&#8217;s a silent film, if that affects your interest, but it&#8217;s quite compelling.</p>
<p><em>Beau Geste</em></p>
<p>Shelly Brisbin  with Micheline Maynard</p>

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   <p>Get in touch with the show at lts at theincomparable.com, <a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@LionTowerShield">Mastodon</a> or  <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/liontowershield.theincomparable.com">Bluesky</a>.</p>

<p>Check out our new  <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lions-towers-and-shields-podcast-book-shop">LTS BookShop.org page</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The Movie: <em>review/commentary on a single classic film</em></strong></p>

<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016634/?ref_=fn_t_1">Beau Geste</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4K5RsFq3yg">trailer</a></p>

<ul>
<li>Available to <a href="https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/beau-geste-1926">stream, rent or buy digitally</a></li>
<li>On disc: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beau-Geste-Blu-ray-Ronald-Colman/dp/B0FWD7W9MZ/ref=sr_1_1">Blu-ray</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>The Self-Referential LTS</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/90/">90 Ruth Chatterton Is Jacked</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/120/">20 Stella Dallas Versus Veda Pierce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/14/">14 No One Told Me It&#8217;s Three Hours Long</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/58/">58 He&#8217;s Culturing Me</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/119/">119 I&#8217;m Still Watching&#8230;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/136/">136 The Tiffany Of John Lunds</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Next time, we&#8217;ll watch</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038057">Scarlet Street</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGZj1mNo2vE">trailer</a></li>
</ul>

  
  
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     <h4><a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600231h.html" class="link" target="_blank">Beau Geste, the novel</a></h4>
     
    
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<description>Someone suggested we honor the films of 1926 — 100 years ago — and so we shall. Beau Geste has been remade often, but here is the original, starring Ronald Colman in his matinee idol period. S recent massive restoration of the film has the film looking great, with lots of footage restored. It’s a silent film, if that affects your interest, but it’s quite compelling. &lt;p&gt;Shelly Brisbin  with Micheline Maynard.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Beau Geste

Someone suggested we honor the films of 1926 — 100 years ago — and so we shall. Beau Geste has been remade often, but here is the original, starring Ronald Colman in his matinee idol period. S recent massive restoration of the film has the film looking great, with lots of footage restored. It’s a silent film, if that affects your interest, but it’s quite compelling....

138: The Hot Ronald Colman

<p>The LTS lineup drafts baseball movies for your enjoyment. At least one choice from every panelist must fall within our old-timey timeline, but newer films about bats and balls make it in, too. And don&#8217;t worry, bad baseball movies do not strike out here. </p>
<p><em>Baseball Movie Draft</em></p>
<p>Shelly Brisbin     with Philip Michaels, Micheline Maynard, Randy Dotinga and David J. Loehr</p>

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<p>Check out our new  <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lions-towers-and-shields-podcast-book-shop">LTS BookShop.org page</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The Movies: _we draft baseball films</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><strong>David</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_League_of_Their_Own">A League of Their Own</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hankgreenbergfilm.org/">The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-court-martial-of-jackie-robinson/">The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happens_Every_Spring">It Happens Every Spring</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Phil</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_the_Outfield_(1951_film">Angels in the Outfield</a> (1951)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Men_Out">Eight Men Out</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball_(film">Moneyball</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_the_Drum_Slowly_(film">Bang the Drum Slowly</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Micki</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackie_Robinson_Story">The Jackie Robinson Story</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Buy_You">I Will Buy You</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_(film">The Natural</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Durham">Bull Durham</a> / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Love_of_the_Game_(film">For Love of the Game</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Randy</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babe_Ruth_Story">The Babe Ruth Story</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Strikes_Out">Fear Strikes Out</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_News_Bears">The Bad News Bears</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment_in_Terror">Experiment in Terror</a> / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Car_Robbery">Armored Car Robbery</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Shelly</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_(film">Rhubarb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stratton_Story">The Stratton Story</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Year">Woman of the Year</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_in_Flatbush">It Happened in Flatbush</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Next time, we&#8217;ll watch</strong>
 * <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016634/?ref_=fn_t_1">Beau Geste</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4K5RsFq3yg">trailer</a></p>

  
  

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Baseball Movie Draft

The LTS lineup drafts baseball movies for your enjoyment. At least one choice from every panelist must fall within our old-timey timeline, but newer films about bats and balls make it in, too. And don’t worry, bad baseball movies do not strike out here....

137: 714 Home Runs And At Least Two Murders

<p>Happy Opening Day! </p>

<p>It&#8217;s Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig, in our first baseball episode. And yes, it&#8217;s all LTS inside baseball this week. We complain about the lack of actual baseball in this movie, suggest other movies with more baseball and go on a complete tangent halfway through, that no one would let me edit out. </p>

<p>But first, listener mail!</p>
<p><em>Pride of the Yankees</em></p>
<p>Shelly Brisbin    with Micheline Maynard, David J. Loehr and Randy Dotinga</p>

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   <p>Get in touch with the show at lts@theincomparable.com, <a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@LionTowerShield">Mastodon</a> or  <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/liontowershield.theincomparable.com">Bluesky</a>.</p>

<p>Check out our new  <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lions-towers-and-shields-podcast-book-shop">LTS BookShop.org page</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The Movie: <em>review/commentary on a single classic film</em></strong></p>

<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035211/">Pride of the Yankees</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT2Gs2KbI_k">trailer</a></p>

<ul>
<li>Available to <a href="https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-pride-of-the-yankees">stream, rent or buy digitally</a></li>
<li>On disc: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000069HZY/?ref=as_li_ss_tl&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=shellybrisbin-20">DVD</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>The Self-Referential LTS</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/23/">23 A Perfect Spherical Cow</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/60/">60 Celebrate The Teresa Wright-Aissance</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/21/">21 Yum Yum And The Nerd</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/100/">100 The Smell Of Murder</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Next time, we&#8217;ll:</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>draft some baseball movies!</li>
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     <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXsPvf9zq4" class="link" target="_blank">Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech</a></h4>
     
    
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Pride of the Yankees

Happy Opening Day! It’s Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig, in our first baseball episode. And yes, it’s all LTS inside baseball this week. We complain about the lack of actual baseball in this movie, suggest other movies with more baseball and go on a complete tangent halfway through, that no one would let me edit out. But first, listener mail!...

136: The Tiffany of John Lunds

<p>The son of a man convicted of murder faces bullying, then suspicion when he is accused of a crime, too. Directed by Frank Borzage, the film is moody, dark and a bit gothic. Dane Clark and Gail Russell are your leads, with a late-film appearance by Ethel Barrymore. And you&#8217;ll hate young Lloyd Bridges. Noir czar Eddie Muller calls Borzage &#8216;relentlessly romantic,&#8221; which is a huge contrast to <em>this</em> film, which Muller ranks it among his top 25 noir films.</p>
<p><em>Moonrise</em></p>
<p>Shelly Brisbin    with Randy Dotinga, Nathan Alderman and Micheline Maynard</p>

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      <h4><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/topics/post-600/" class="link">Moonrise (1948)</a></h4>
      
     
    
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   <p>Get in touch with the show at lts@theincomparable.com, <a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@LionTowerShield">Mastodon</a> or  <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/liontowershield.theincomparable.com">Bluesky</a>.</p>

<p>Check out our new  <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lions-towers-and-shields-podcast-book-shop">LTS BookShop.org page</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The Movie: <em>review/commentary on a single classic film</em></strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20672482/">Moonrise</a> 
<ul>
<li>Available to <a href="https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/moonrise">stream, rent or buy digitally</a></li>
<li>On disc: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Moonrise-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Clark/dp/B079VQ4SS2/ref=sr_1_2?">Blu-ray</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>The Self-Referential LTS</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/5/">5 I Love Dead Lucy</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/98/">98 Toshirô Mifune Can Get It!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/129/">129 There Are No Cars</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/96/">96 I Think He <em>Might</em> Be A Sociopath</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/70/">70 Things Just Keep Happening And Nothing Makes Sense</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Next time, we&#8217;ll watch</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035211/">Pride of the Yankees</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT2Gs2KbI_k">trailer</a></li>
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<description>The son of a man convicted of murder faces bullying, then suspicion when he is accused of a crime, too. Directed by Frank Borzage, the film is moody, dark and a bit gothic. Dane Clark and Gail Russell are your leads, with a late-film appearance by Ethel Barrymore. And you’ll hate young Lloyd Bridges. Noir czar Eddie Muller calls Borzage ‘relentlessly romantic,” which is a huge contrast to this film, which Muller ranks it among his top 25 noir films. &lt;p&gt;Shelly Brisbin    with Randy Dotinga, Nathan Alderman and Micheline Maynard.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Moonrise

The son of a man convicted of murder faces bullying, then suspicion when he is accused of a crime, too. Directed by Frank Borzage, the film is moody, dark and a bit gothic. Dane Clark and Gail Russell are your leads, with a late-film appearance by Ethel Barrymore. And you’ll hate young Lloyd Bridges. Noir czar Eddie Muller calls Borzage ‘relentlessly romantic,” which is a huge contrast to this film, which Muller ranks it among his top 25 noir films....

135: Call It A Noirlodrama

<p>Gene Tierney does comedy. John Lund is not bad. And THELMA RITTER IS THE BEST.</p>
<p><em>The Mating Season</em></p>
<p>Shelly Brisbin   with Micheline Maynard and Nathan Alderman</p>

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   <p>Get in touch with the show at lts@theincomparable.com, <a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@LionTowerShield">Mastodon</a> or  <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/liontowershield.theincomparable.com">Bluesky</a>.</p>

<p>Check out our new  <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lions-towers-and-shields-podcast-book-shop">LTS BookShop.org page</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The Movie: <em>review/commentary on a single classic film</em></strong></p>

<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043792/">The Mating Season</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9BHqcpE98">trailer</a></p>

<ul>
<li>Available to <a href="https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-mating-season">stream, rent or buy digitally</a></li>
<li>Full movie on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTbF89q-Exs">YouTube</a></li>
<li>On disc: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHL7QK4B/?ref=as_li_ss_tl&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=shellybrisbin-20">DVD</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>The Self-Referential LTS</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/127/">127 Kind Of A Nice Snack</a>\</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/46/">46 A Rough 35</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/132/">132 Clothes, Cars And Acreage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/52/">52 If Douglas Sirk Made Friday The 13th</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/86/">86 Bring A Fan And A Bucket</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/70/">70 Things Just Keep Happening And Nothing Makes Sense</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/lts/21/">21 Yum Yum And The Nerd</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Next time, we&#8217;ll watch</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20672482/">Moonrise</a></li>
</ul>

  
  
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The Mating Season

Gene Tierney does comedy. John Lund is not bad. And THELMA RITTER IS THE BEST....

134: Hotness Is A Reason

A celebration of films from the classic Hollywood era. Shelly Brisbin leads a merry band through recaps and reviews of great old movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. 


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