1952: Son of Pale Face

 JANE RUSSELL

as "Mike"

"Mike" lets a henchman know who's the boss...

When she isn't out robbing stages of money, she's on stage robbing men of their sanity...

Keeping the boys down when she gets them too up...

A Gal who knows she's got it with plenty to spare...

Bob tries to be manly and help the lady down...

But he's just not man enough to handle a Glamazon like Jane...

Bob's up for some hanky-panky, but devious Jane has other plans, dropping a drug in his drink ...

The drug hits and he can barely stand without her help...

She hangs him on a hook...

Changes into her bad girl robber costume and leaves him hanging, planning on using him later as an alibi...

Done with her crime, she turns back the clock and will bring dopey out of his stupor, with him stupidly thinking he's just had a good time with her and will swear to anyone he did...

"Have they been abusing my baby?"

 A monumental development in male-Female screen dynamics...

Through the whole movie the traditional stock comedy staple of the male buffoon being dominated by Conniving/Charming Woman has been on magnificent display.... But Roy Rogers, a veritable screen hero, has been impervious to Jane's charms/wiles, so he now gets whacked in the back of the head, knocked out and tied up by Jane...

 Unable to dominate Roy with standard cinematic Femininity, "Mike"  adds male aggressiveness to her Femininism, resorting to brutal violence and merciless bondage, opening up a whole new avenue of Female Dominance to be played out on the screen for years to come...

In many respects, this is the official dawn of the !WOm!WAm! era...

The symbolic act of a Woman hanging a man on a hook: She's duped him, drugged him, and suspends him to dangle helplessly. And all the while he thinks he's getting over on her.  How many guys can appreciate that symbolism? ("Yeah, I thought she was mine, but she left me hanging, hopelessly in love...")  Turning back the hands on the clock so in his mind no time has elapsed makes it seem she possesses a timeless, eternal power to manipulate men...