Alfred Hickman – MRQE

The Phantom of Paris

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

On the Quiet

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.

The Enchanted Cottage

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

The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.

Civilian Clothes

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

During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.

Here Comes the Bride

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.

The Venus Model

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

After a disastrous fling at “heavy dramatics” in Joan of Plattsburg, Mabel Normand sagaciously returned to comedy with Venus Model. Normand plays Kitty O’Brien, a low-level employee at a bathing suit factory. Despite her capricious on-the-job behavior, Kitty is handsomely rewarded when she submits a design for “The Venus Model,” the company’s corporate trademark. Placed in charge of the whole factory, Kitty single-handed straightens out the company’s monumental financial woes during the owner’s absence (a plot development which predated the similar one in Nine to Five by nearly seven decades). She also wins the heart of Paul Braddock (Rod LaRocque), the boss’ son. Not surprisingly, Venus Model afforded Mabel Normand the opportunity to display her svelte figure in a wide variety of brief beachwear.

The Fall of the Romanoffs

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

The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn’t help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.