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Bondage Life #28

1. List your 10 all-time favorite movies.

Hundreds of movies drew at least one mention, making them familiar to readers of Carl McGuire's Bound fo Hollywood column. Here's the consensus Top 10 (actual; 13, because of ties):

• The Collector
• Terror Among Us
• Von Ryan's Express
• Jamaica Inn
• Ginger
• Play Misty For Me; Die, Die, My Darling (tie)
• The Abductors
• Dragnet(1969)
• Valdez Is Coming; Bhowani Junction; Mother's Day; The Nightcomers (tie)

Honorable Mention: Prince of Monte Cristo; Target; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Jack Speed; Story of O; The Naked Edge; Carry On, Nurse; The Strongroom

Only one respondent listed Adventures of Haiji Baba but his reaction to the Elaine Stewart bondage scene exemplifies the impact a movie may have on a receptive viewer. "This movie was the most memorable for me, almost to the exclusion of any other!"

Five other films that received only one vote deserve to be much better known:

• The Secret Drawer ("Michelle Morgan is taken from the back of a van, gagged with a scarf, her hands tied before her. Later, she talks on the phone while strapped to a chair, then is regagged."
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers ("About 40 minutes of bondage in the film, including a ball-gagged, topless blonde and a brunette hogtied for about 25 minutes. It's available on videocassette.")
• What Have You Done With Solange? ("Several scenes. The best shows the heroine bound and gagged in a car.")
• The Love Object ("Written and directed by the same guy responsible for the Ginger films. One scene shows a nude blonde with her hands tied above her head.")
• The Candy Snatchers. ("The heroine's bound throughout the picture, including a strict hogtie.")
• Finally, can anyone identify this movie? The respondent who supplied this description couldn't remember the title which certainly shouldn't remain anonymous:

"In this scene, a woman spy is tied on a bed by another woman with the drawcord from window blinds. She's bound and gagged on her stomach, and the woman doing the tying comments that she probably spends most of her time in bed on her back."

2. Please make a Top Ten list of your favorite television series; identify specific episodes if possible.

Two very different series dominated this category, with the British sophistication of The Avengers edging out the American low-budget innocence of Superman for the number 1 spot. It's difficult to imagine two more contrasting heroines that Lois Lane and Emma Peel (what is it with those 4-letter names?), but both have legions of admirers. The complete Top Ten, plus Five:

• The Avengers
• Superman
• Charlie's Angels
• T. J. Hooker
• Batman
• Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-O (tie)
• Gilligan's Island, Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (tie)
• Mission Impossible, Get Smart, Vegas, Sky King, Miami Vice, FBI (tie)

Honorable Mention: It Takes A Thief; Rookies; Police Woman; Hunter; Moonlighting; That Girl; Benny Hill; CHIPS; Land of the Giants; Big Valley; St. Elsewhere; Dog and Cat.

It's worth noting that, with one exception, the Top Ten series attained its eminence because they've provided quantity as well as quality. Respondents came up with no less than nine different Avengers episodes, for example. On the other hand, most of the Honorable Mentions made it on the strength of one standout show, just as Mission: Impossible edged into a 6-way tie for #10 as a result of that amazing Elizabeth Ashley scene. Several more examples of this phenomenon were:

• Rookies ("Lynne Marta spent most of the show tied and gagged with a white cloth around her mouth or between her teeth.")
• That Girl ("Mario Thomas was in a commercial tied and tape-gagged, and her boyfriend rescued her by riding them up and down in an elevator.")
• Benny Hill ("A woman is discovered bound and gagged in her lingerie; a lady spy has taken her clothes.")
• Land of the Giants ("Everybody got tied up but I remember the actresses best, of course.")
• St. Elsewhere ("The episode with Jean Bruce Scott tied to the bed was genuine Love Bondage.")
• "The Perils of Superman," however, took the prize as most-mentioned episode. One respondent described its plot, in which Lois Lane was gagged and tied to railroad tracks, as "a good self-spoofing of melodramatic bondage situations."

Of course, prime-time TV doesn't enjoy a monopoly on melodramatic bondage. Our ratings might look different if more of you kept an eye on soap-opera derring-do:

"In a 1982 Guiding Light storyline that lasted several weeks, Lisa Brown was tied to a bed, then bound and gagged in a chair. Last year, Nancy Frangione was tied and tape-gagged while wearing a nightgown, loaded in a laundry cart, then, when removed, forced to hop for a distance and locked in a storage room!"

Amidst all the reminiscences of movies and TV, an English respondent championed radio as a worthy medium for bondage fantasy. Noting that radio permits the imagination more freedom than visual media, he assured us that when listening to the BBC play "The Hamburg Connection," he found "the sounds made by one of the actresses as she was bound and gagged superb."

3. Please identify the detective magazines that most influenced you.

Although many of you acknowledged the importance of detective magazine bondage covers, very few could provide details. You enjoyed finding them at the news-stand, you appreciated the images (especially when, pre-1970, overt bondage magazines were almost impossible to come by), but you didn't record dates and titles. Thus, most responses relied on descriptions of a few memorable images:

"The model wore a black satin floor-length gown split up the side, black pumps and black stockings. She was bound to a chair in a sitting hogtie."

"There was one cover with a bound and gagged woman in a short skirt lying on a couch."

"I remember a very attractive young woman wearing a blue and white striped shirt; her hands were tied overhead."

Others nailed down titles and dates ("Official Detective from the late 40s and early 50s"; "Startling Detective, mid-60s") but didn't describe the covers. One methodical collector did both, so we reproduce his Top Ten list as a public service:

• Detective Cases (August 1975). "Young woman in bra and panties, hogtied and gagged on her side in bed."
• Best True Fact Detective (September 1980). "The model lies on her stomach in lingerie and heels. Her hands are tied behind her back and she's gagged with duct tape."
• Official Police Detective (Early 70s). "A brunette lying on her side, gagged with cloth, bound with rope and stockings. She's wearing white bra and panties."
• Crime Detective (Early 70s) "A young lady bound and gagged with lots of rope, wearing yellow T-shirt and panties. She's standing outdoors."
• Detective Cases (Mid-70s). "Brunette wearing blue leotard suspended upside down."
• Startling Detective (May 1983). "Woman in red shorts and halter, gagged with cloth, and suspended 'Sweet Gwen In The Barn' style."
• True Police (Mid-70s). "Blonde hogtied in black hose and lingerie."
• True Police Yearbook #26 (Mid-70s). "The same model as in #7 is tape-gagged and bound to a beam."
• Best True Fact Detective (Early 70s). "A young woman wearing a red shirt, black shorts, and boots is suspended."
• Detective Files (March 1976). "Sitting outdoors, a blonde model wearing a red dress is bound with a great deal of rope to a large tree limb."

4. List the comic books and strips that you found most significant.

Responses here were surprisingly sparse. Even those of you who listed comic books or strips added little detail, perhaps because many respondents dismiss this medium as a pale alternative to photographed bondage. But the hardy band of comic enthusiasts pointed to these books and strips as excellent bondage sources:

• Steve Canyon
• Dick Tracy
• Terry and the Pirates
• Brenda Starr
• Superman
• Sheena
• Flash Gordon
• Conan the Barbarian
• Vampirella
• Prince Valiant

Several other comics weren't mentioned as often, but we described in more detail:

- "On the cover of Ms Tree #34, the heroine is bound and gagged with Christmas tree lights and cords!"

- World's Finest #315 contains many excellent panels of a very pretty blonde being tied and gagged."

- "In Spiderwoman #5, Spiderwoman is tightly bound to a chair; the cover of #6 shows her bound and gagged as in the previous issue."

Let's not forget another comic-oriented publication: ometimes in its movie reviews, sometimes in the regular articles."

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