Allan Jeayes – MRQE

Obsession

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

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife’s lover.

Forget Me Not

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

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.

Convoy

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

‘Pimpernel’ Smith

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

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

The Ghost Train

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

The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film’s art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.

They Drive by Night

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

Shorty Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.

The Stars Look Down

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

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin’s 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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

After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.

The Green Cockatoo

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

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man’s brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

Elephant Boy

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

Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival for collaborating on this charming translation of Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book story Toomai of the Elephants. A harmonious mix of the two filmmakers styles, Flaherty’s adeptness at ethnographic documentary meeting Korda’s taste for grand adventure, ELEPHANT BOY also served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.