Alan Badel – MRQE

King Lear (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.

Shogun (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.

Salome

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod’s long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king’s dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications…

The Adventurers

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father’s friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren’t quite as black and white as he’d assumed.

“Count of Monte Cristo, The”

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

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Bitter Harvest

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

The Riddle of the Sands

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

Force 10 from Navarone

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

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

The Medusa Touch

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

The Day of the Jackal

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An international assassin known as The Jackal is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassins trail.