Basil Radford – MRQE

Whisky Galore!

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

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

Quartet

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

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: “The Facts of Life,” “The Alien Corn,” “The Kite,” and “The Colonel’s Lady.”

Chance of a Lifetime

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

The Winslow Boy

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

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

The Lady Vanishes

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

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

The Galloping Major

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

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

Stop Press Girl

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn’t know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she’s in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

It’s Not Cricket

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

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. ” This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn’t even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing.” Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond …

The Way to the Stars

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

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

Dear Octopus

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

Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.