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The Ransom of Red Chief
The Ransom of Red Chief is O. Henry's 1907 comic short story, first printed in The Saturday Evening Post and collected in Whirligigs, in which kidnappers Bill and Sam are overpowered by their captive Johnny Dorset, the self-styled Red Chief.
The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈)
The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈) is iQiyi's 2017 hip-hop talent show, China's first, with producers Kris Wu, MC HotDog, and Will Pan; winners GAI and PG One; over 3 billion views; rebranded 中国新说唱 after 2018 censorship.
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (also titled Lucrece, published 1594 in rhyme royal) retells Lucretia's rape by Tarquin and suicide, which founded the Roman Republic.
The Rape of Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina (Ratto di Proserpina) is a 1621–1622 Baroque marble group by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, showing Pluto abducting Proserpina, famous for fingers sinking into marble flesh, now in Rome's Galleria Borghese.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock: Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem, first published in two cantos in 1712 and expanded to five in 1714, satirizing Lord Petre's snipping of a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair.
The Rape of the Sabine Women
The Rape of the Sabine Women (Italian: Ratto delle Sabine) is a marble sculpture group by Giambologna, standing since 1582 under the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.
The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma
The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma (retitled Pepsi Paloma in the Philippines) is Darryl Yap's 2025 biographical drama about actress Pepsi Paloma's 1982 rape case, which drew a P35 million cyberlibel suit from Vic Sotto, a teaser takedown order, and a postponed release.
The Rapture (band)
The Rapture is an American dance-punk band formed in 1998, known for "House of Jealous Lovers" and the DFA-produced Echoes (2003); albums Mirror, Pieces of the People We Love, In the Grace of Your Love.
The Rapture (TV series)
The Rapture is a five-part British psychological thriller broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in 2026, adapted from Liz Jensen's 2010 novel and starring Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio.
The Rare Breed
The Rare Breed is a 1966 Universal Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, and Juliet Mills, about an English widow bringing a Hereford bull to Texas.
The Rascals
The Rascals (the Young Rascals), American blue-eyed soul band formed 1965 in Garfield, New Jersey, by Cavaliere, Brigati, Cornish, and Danelli; No. 1 hits "Good Lovin'", "Groovin'", "People Got to Be Free"; Rock Hall 1997.
The Rasmus
The Rasmus, Finnish rock band formed in Helsinki in 1994 by Lauri Ylönen, Eero Heinonen, Pauli Rantasalmi and later Aki Hakala; broke through internationally with Dead Letters (2003) and "In the Shadows", won UMK 2022 with "Jezebel" for Eurovision, and has sold over 3.5 million albums.
The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol (1966–68) was ABC's half-hour WWII action series about three Americans and a Brit in jeeps battling Rommel's Afrika Korps, loosely based on the British LRDG and SAS, starring Christopher George and Eric Braeden, pulled by the BBC after six episodes.
The Rats in the Walls
"The Rats in the Walls" is a 1923 weird-fiction short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in Weird Tales in March 1924, in which American heir Delapore restores Exham Priory and uncovers ancestral cannibalism beneath it.
The Rattle Bag
The Rattle Bag is a 1982 poetry anthology selected by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes and published by Faber and Faber, with over 400 poems arranged alphabetically by title.
The Raven
The Raven is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845, in which a grieving scholar is visited by a raven that says only "Nevermore."
The Raven (1935 film)
The Raven (1935) is a Universal horror film directed by Louis Friedlander (Lew Landers), starring Bela Lugosi as Poe-obsessed surgeon Dr. Richard Vollin and Boris Karloff as Edmond Bateman; released 8 July 1935, suggested by Poe's poem, budget $109,750.
The Raven (1963 film)
The Raven is a 1963 American comedy-horror film directed by Roger Corman, loosely adapted from Poe's 1845 poem and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff.
The Raven (2012 film)
The Raven is a 2012 thriller directed by James McTeigue, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe hunting a serial killer who stages murders from Poe's stories.
The Raven (The Stranglers album)
The Raven (1979) is the fourth studio album by The Stranglers, released 21 September 1979 on United Artists, recorded at Pathé Marconi Paris and Air Studios London, produced by Alan Winstanley with the band, reaching UK No. 4 with Gold certification.
The Raven and Other Poems
The Raven and Other Poems is an 1845 poetry collection by Edgar Allan Poe, published in New York and containing his most famous poem, "The Raven".
The Raven Cycle
The Raven Cycle is Maggie Stiefvater's four-book young adult fantasy series (Scholastic, 2012–2016): The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King, following Blue Sargent and the Aglionby Academy Raven Boys on a quest for the sleeping Welsh king Glendower in Henrietta, Virginia.
The Raven Scholar
The Raven Scholar (2025) by Antonia Hodgson is the first book of the Eternal Path trilogy, an epic fantasy in which High Scholar Neema Kraa investigates a murder during Orrun's imperial succession tournament; it won the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
The Ravine of Goodbye
The Ravine of Goodbye (さよなら渓谷, Sayonara Keikoku) is a 2013 Japanese drama-mystery film by Tatsushi Omori, adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's novel, starring Yoko Maki and Shima Onishi; it won the Moscow IFF Special Jury Prize and Japan Academy Best Actress.
The Ray of the Microcosm
The Ray of the Microcosm (Luča mikrokozma) is an 1845 mystical epic poem in six cantos by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, prince-bishop of Montenegro, written during Lent.
The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge is W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel about American aviator Larry Darrell's spiritual quest from post-WWI Chicago to India under guru Shri Ganesha, told by Maugham as first-person narrator; distinguished from film versions by its Katha-Upanishad epigraph and 1944 publication.
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
The Razor's Edge (1946), Twentieth Century-Fox drama directed by Edmund Goulding, adapting W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel; stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Oscar-winning Anne Baxter; Fox's biggest hit to date, remade in 1984 with Bill Murray.
The Razor's Edge (1984 film)
The Razor's Edge is a 1984 American drama directed by John Byrum, with a screenplay by Byrum and Bill Murray, adapted from Maugham's 1944 novel about a seeker named Larry Darrell.
The Razor's Edge (upcoming film)
The Razor's Edge is an upcoming American action thriller directed by Demian Lichtenstein, starring James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones as a hitman and his pursuer. Announced May 2024, shot in Columbus, Georgia from June 25, 2024; distinct from the Maugham adaptations and the Detroit homelessness documentary of the same name.
The Razors Edge (AC/DC album)
The Razors Edge is the eleventh studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in September 1990 on ATCO Records, featuring the hit "Thunderstruck".