Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

In this MGM 1937 episode, we look at two star-studded historical romances about charismatic political leaders and their mistresses: Conquest (directed by Clarence Brown), with Charles Boyer's Napoleon Bonaparte and Greta Garbo's Marie Walewska, and Parnell (directed by John Stahl), with Clark Gable's Charles Stewart Parnell and Myrna Loy's Katharine O'Shea. Despite the poor-to-terrible reputations of the films, we find a lot to recommend, from Conquest's surprisingly canny politics to Parnell's gender-inversion of Stahl's fallen woman melodramas. Dave reveals his inner Napoleon fanboy, and Elise shudders at the Gnostic void into which love leads Stahl's protagonists.    Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:                  Studio Data 0h 10m 01s:                  CONQUEST [dir. Clarence Brown]         0h 45m 28s:                  PARNELL [dir. John M. Stahl] 1h 25m 00s:                 Listener mail with Adam   Studio Film Capsules provided by The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames Additional studio information from: The Hol