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The Gumps

The Gumps was an American comic strip by Sidney Smith, running in the Chicago Tribune from February 12, 1917 to October 17, 1959. Pioneering continuity storytelling with Andy, Min, and Uncle Bim, it drove Tribune syndication, earned Smith a $1 million contract, and became the first comic strip adapted to radio in 1931.

The Gun Club

The Gun Club, an American punk-blues band from Los Angeles founded by Jeffrey Lee Pierce (also the Creeping Ritual), released Fire of Love (1981) and Miami (1982) and influenced the White Stripes and Nick Cave; Pierce died in 1996.

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 comedy-mystery about a small-town librarian who falsely confesses to a murder to gain attention. It stars Penelope Ann Miller.

The Gun on Second Street

The Gun on Second Street is an American independent drama written and directed by Rohit Karn Batra, an allegory of the U.S. gun crisis about a Pittsburgh officer who accidentally kills his partner. Shot in Wheeling, West Virginia; its 2025 IATSE crew strike drew attention.

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter (1950) is Henry King's Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring Gregory Peck as aging gunslinger Jimmy Ringo, an antiheroic, mustachioed forerunner of the psychological Westerns, initially a box-office disappointment but later acclaimed (Metascore 94).

The Guns of August

The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman's 1962 Macmillan narrative history of the first month of World War I, won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and influenced Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 J. Lee Thompson war film produced by blacklisted Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean's novel, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn as saboteurs destroying German guns on a fictional Aegean island; seven Oscar nominations, Best Special Effects win.

The Guns of the South

The Guns of the South is Harry Turtledove's 1992 Ballantine alternate-history novel in which South African white supremacists from 2014 give the Confederacy AK-47s; Lee wins the Civil War, becomes president, and pursues gradual emancipation.

The Gutter (2024 film)

The Gutter (2024) is an American bowling comedy directed by brothers Yassir and Isaiah Lester, starring Shameik Moore, Susan Sarandon, and D'Arcy Carden; SXSW premiere, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 59.

The Guvernment

The Guvernment, also known as the Guvernment Entertainment Complex, was a multi-room nightclub on Toronto's waterfront, open from 1996 to 2015 and long ranked among North America's largest clubs.

The Guy from Vought

The Guy from Vought is the nameless Vought-American executive in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys (2006–2012), later identified as James Stillwell; the TV series split him into Madelyn Stillwell and Stan Edgar.

The Guy Game

The Guy Game: 2004 adult trivia video game by Top Heavy Studios (Xbox, PS2, Windows), spring break topless footage from South Padre Island; banned after a 17-year-old model's lawsuit.

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (気になってる人が男じゃなかった, KiniOto, "green yuri") is Sumiko Arai's yuri webcomic-turned-manga about Aya, who falls for a CD shop clerk who is really her classmate Mitsuki; over 2.25 million copies sold, anime by CloverWorks premieres January 8, 2027.

The Guyver

The Guyver (1991), released in the UK as Mutronics, is an American-Japanese live-action adaptation of Yoshiki Takaya's Bio Booster Armor Guyver manga, directed by Screaming Mad George and Steve Wang, produced by Brian Yuzna, starring Mark Hamill, and known for its practical Zoanoid creature effects.

The Gwendy Trilogy

The Gwendy Trilogy, or Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy, is Stephen King and Richard Chizmar's three-novella series (2017–2022) following Gwendy Peterson, guardian of a catastrophe-causing button box, from 1974 Castle Rock into space.

The Gypsies

The Gypsies (Цыганы) is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1824 during his southern exile and published as a book in 1827, the last of his "Southern poems".

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) is Joseph Losey's British Regency costume melodrama, starring Melina Mercouri as gold-digging gypsy Belle opposite Keith Michell's Sir Paul Deverill; a Rank Organisation box-office failure Losey disowned, later reappraised as a precursor of The Servant.

The H-Man (美女と液体人間)

The H-Man (美女と液体人間, Bijo to ekitai ningen) is a 1958 Toho tokusatsu sci-fi film directed by Ishirō Honda with effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, about H-bomb radiation turning humans into liquid creatures; first of Toho's Transforming Human series.

The Haçienda

The Haçienda (FAC 51) was a Manchester nightclub on Whitworth Street West, opened 21 May 1982 by Factory Records and New Order, closed 28 June 1997, demolished 2002; birthplace of UK acid house and Madchester culture.

The Hack

The Hack is a 2025 seven-part ITV/Stan drama by Jack Thorne dramatizing the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry, starring David Tennant as Nick Davies and Robert Carlyle as DCS Dave Cook.

The Hague

The Hague (Den Haag, 's-Gravenhage), third-largest Dutch city, seat of government and parliament, International Court of Justice, capital of South Holland; founded as a count's court around 1230, never granted city rights.

The Hague Academy of International Law

The Hague Academy of International Law (Académie de droit international de La Haye), founded 1923 with Carnegie funding at the Peace Palace, teaches public and private international law through six-week summer and three-week winter courses and publishes the Collected Courses.

The Hairdresser Mysteries

The Hairdresser Mysteries is a 2026 British cosy crime drama on BBC One and iPlayer, created by Jim Cartwright and starring Sally Phillips as 1970s-obsessed hairdresser Lily Petal, who solves murders in the fictional village of Blossom Vale through salon gossip.

The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is an eight-scene 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill, in which stoker Yank Smith, rejected by a wealthy passenger, searches industrial New York for a place to belong.

The Haitian Earth

The Haitian Earth is the land of Haiti, the 27,750 km² western third of Hispaniola, celebrated in poetry and contested among peasants, elites, and the state since independence in 1804.

The Haitian Trilogy

The Haitian Trilogy is Derek Walcott's 2002 collection of three verse plays on the Haitian Revolution, gathering Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth.

The Halal Guys

The Halal Guys: American halal fast-casual chain founded 1990 in NYC by Egyptian immigrants Abouelenein, Elsaka, and Elsayed; began as a 53rd and 6th hot dog cart serving Muslim cab drivers, famous for chicken-over-rice platters and white sauce.

The Halcyon

The Halcyon is a 2017 British ITV period drama, eight episodes, created by Charlotte Jones and made by Left Bank Pictures, set in 1940 at a fictional five-star London hotel during World War II; cancelled after one season, distinct from the Syfy series Halcyon and Disney's Halcyon starcruiser.

The Half Brother

The Half Brother (Halvbroren) is a 2001 epic novel by the Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, following half-brothers Barnum and Fred through four generations in postwar Oslo.

The Half of It

The Half of It is a 2020 Netflix romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Alice Wu, starring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, and Alexxis Lemire. A queer Cyrano-style teen story set in fictional Squahamish, it won the Tribeca Founders Award and a 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.