I love to scan the listings on the online website for TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES.

Not only do I like to see if my favorite films are playing, I get a Pythonesque chuckle out of the thumbnail descriptions that TCM provides per each film.

To me they're funny because they are so very brief. Reading the thumbnail, you could picture each one of these stories started-- and over-- within a mere five minutes.

Want to see what i mean? Here are some actual descriptive thumbnails for recent TCM airings:

H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)


A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling. Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Hedy Lamarr. Director: King Vidor. BW-120m, TV-PG

3:10 To Yuma (1957)


A sheriff must run the gauntlet to get his prisoner out of town. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr. Director: Delmer Daves. BW-92m, TV-PG

B.F.'s Daughter (1948)


A professor doesn't know his wife is an heiress. Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-108m, TV-PG

Psycho (1960)


A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109m, TV-PG

Haunting, The (1963)


A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Director: Robert Wise. BW-112m, TV-PG

Possessed (1947)


A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-108m, TV-PG

West Side Story (1961)


A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno. Director: Robert Wise. C-152m, TV-PG

Nora Prentiss (1947)


An ambitious singer ruins a doctor's life. Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett. Director: Vincent Sherman. BW-112m, TV-PG

Court Jester, The (1956)


A traveling actor is mistaken for a medieval rebel. Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone. Director: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. C-101m, TV-G

I see what you mean, rasputin! No sooner is the film described than you feel you have seen it already!

By the way, on this one:

Possessed (1947) A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-108m, TV-PG

when it comes on, try to catch it and see if it's the one where she steals a huge bottle of perfume in a department store and then when she gets it home, finds out it's a dummy bottle. We don't get TCM here and I've been dying to know if this is the Crawford film with this scene. I'm also wondering if it is, if there are any more perfume scenes in it. Have you ever seen it before?

You're so right, rasputin! 'Gone With the Wind' : Southern vixen ends up alone . . .

LOLOL. BTW: SEE, POSSESSED!! It's excellent!!

Fiveoaks . . . you're thinking of THE STAR, with Bette Davis. She plays Margaret Elliot, a fading movie queen, who's down and out . . . the fragrance she so loved, was called DESIRE ME.

Am I, Armanis? I could have sworn it was Joan Crawford. I must catch The Star. Maybe there are two movies out there with these perfume scenes!

I just read this site and it sure looks like it:

http://www.coolcinematrash.com/movies/thestar.htm

Thanks, Armanis!

Fiveoaks . . . the 'perfume scene,' is described in The Star's plot synopsis . . . I remember that movie, quite well. Saw it recently . . . POSSESSED deals with emotional disturbance. :-o Joan plays a nurse who can't remember who she is, or how she ended up murdering Van Heflin . . . Crawford received an Oscar nomination, for POSSESSED. She's superb, in the film . . . absolutely FRIGHTENING.