Abraham Sofaer – MRQE

Journey to the Center of Time

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won’t be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.

Twice-Told Tales

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story “The House of the Seven Gables”, The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

Captain Sindbad

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d’etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He’s got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.

The First Texan

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.

Bhowani Junction

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Elephant Walk

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth’s delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband’s occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.

The Naked Jungle

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

His Majesty O’Keefe

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil – and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O’Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O’Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.

Quo Vadis

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship’s captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.