This Island Earth (1955)
Movie
Aliens arrive on Earth from the planet Metaluna, seeking both uranium deposits and human scientists,...
William Alland Raymond F. Jones Reynold Brown Henry Mancini Technicolor
The Big Sleep (1946)
Movie
Philip Marlowe is a private detective who is hired by a wealthy general to resolve some debts, only...
Hardboiled Hard-boiled Raymond Chandler Vivian Rutledge Sternwood
Leadership and Business | Our Business is Leadership
Podcast
William & Mary’s rich history of educating leaders continues at the Center for Corporate Education...
Airplane 2 - The Sequel (1982)
Movie Watch
Though haunted by combat memories, heroic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) agrees to return to the...
Justified - Season 1
TV Season
Raylan Givens a talented law man with a old west mentality Gets transferred to his hometown...
True Blood - Season 1
TV Season
In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin...no longer in need of a human...
David McK (3207 KP) rated The Royalist (William Falkland #1) in Books
Apr 18, 2022
Reading very much like a ECW version of a whodunnit, with the author - in the afterword - not at all shy to point out the influences of the hard-boiled detective hero/film noir of the 40s (think Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler) on this work.