IN the films and comic books, men – strapping,fearsome, monstrous and heroic men – are often seen carrying weak, swooning, slim, attractive, sexually-available, dress-wearing young women in their arms.
Here are 33 of the best. And one man who took a stand:
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Texas Terror (1935)
And then came Debbie’ date…
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