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Rick's Flicks
Dirty Work: Randolph Scott Turns Nasty in Decision at Sundown
There were probably as many westerns on TV as movie screens by the last half of the '50s, when the genre mutated from the oaters of the '30s and '40s to the revisionist films of the '60s and '70s. They were often being made by the same directors and crews, on the same sets and locations, with casts who moved from big to small screen to make a living. It's why a film like Budd Boetticher's Decision at Sundown (1957) has been described as looking like an episode of Gunsmoke, which hit the air two years previous and would run for two decades. Boetticher himself directed several episodes of Maverick for ABC that year and after finishing what would later be called his "Ranown Cycle" of westerns (of which Decision at Sundown was the third) would ...
On the Town
Mellow Blarney
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, some wild, some mellow, after which we take tea with lyricist Irving Caesar, and enjoy Frank Sinatra getting his Irish up. Plus lepers and yellow-striped trousers. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Diane, a Maryland Steyn Clubber, kicks things off: Caterina Valente to Telly Savalas – definitely something for everyone... Liked very much the Pink Martini rendition of 'Bolero'. Thanks, MS, eclectic and engaging as always. Not sure about that "something for everyone", Diane. A lot of it trembled on the brink of nuthin' for no one. Our West Coast music maven Gary ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Carney Folk
If you missed this week's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 12th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
The New Imperial Class
Steyn surveys the various regime changes in Canada and Syria...
On the Town
Whirlwind of Death and Gurglin' Cracklin' Cauldrons
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we mark the sesquicentennial of a great composer, Maurice Ravel - plus "lounge soul" via South Africa, a big belter from the NYPD, and Sinatra goes country. ..
Politics & Current Affairs
Tommy Rots (cont'd)
The wheels of justice grind on in London and Washington...
Politics & Current Affairs
America Alone ...Again
A Nigerian naysayer on Trump and Steyn's bestseller...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Palsied Limb of Nature's Frame
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
A Clubman's Notes
When the Getting Was Good...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
Mann vs Steyn
COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
Live by Falsifying Evidence, Die by Falsifying Evidence...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
A Clubman's Notes
The Excruciating Ache
Welcome to the concluding episode of our wintry Tale for Our Time - Jack London's To Build a Fire
A Clubman's Notes
Chilling Out
The first part of a Jack London tale of exceptionally frosty fiction...
A Clubman's Notes
Too Evil to Look Upon
Welcome to the conclusion of our winter Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...
A Clubman's Notes
Climactic Changes
In tonight's penultimate episode of Lord of the World, the volor fleets of the world's powers prepare to embark for the final showdown...
A Clubman's Notes
A Reign of Unheard-of Terror
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Euthanasia People"
Part Four of our latest audio diversion. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...
A Clubman's Notes
A Windowless Train to Brighton
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
An American in Irkutsk
Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and a favourite of at least two popes...
A Clubman's Notes
Getting Here from There
Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson...
Tales for Our Time
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
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