If you're under 40 you probably don't recognize Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood. Even people over 40 probably shouldn't remember the entirely forgettable movie The Girl He Left Behind from which this Hollywood publicity still was taken. We used to think it was taken from The Burning Hills(!), which was indeed another Natalie Wood film and which would have been suitably ironic, but Richard Windsor , that indefatigable source of movie information, recently posted another copy of this photo with the correct attribution. Refer to his site for a much fuller discussion of these films and related spanking questions.

Actually, when we stop to think about it, this photo isn't all that humorous, but Tab and Natalie seem to be having such a good time we thought we'd toss it in here anyway. Besides, Wood herself seems to have had a sense of humor, once referring to The Girl He Left Behind as "The Girl With The Left Behind"! There have been some rumors that Wood was into the spanking scene, but we suspect this to be mere wishful thinking. Again, Richard has some further thoughts and information on this topic.

The problem with these spanking publicity stills is that there almost never was any actual spanking in the movies they came from. In this case, however, Tab Hunter has stated the spanking was real (note that it was apparently a birthday spanking and does not depict any content of the movie itself). There is also a picture floating around of Tab and Natalie with the roles reversed, where Natalie is spanking Tab! We haven't bothered posting it because it's not really to our taste (M/F).

If you're interested in actual movie spanking scenes, the best compilations we know of are on Dan Rivera's Cinema Swats videos. Shadow Lane once featured a catalog of movie/tv spankings in their Stand Corrected magazine, in the days when it was still in print as hard copy.