https://mrqe.com Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:36:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-top-of-the-world-m100044794/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-top-of-the-world-m100044794/ This romantic drama was based on the novel by Ethel M. Dell, a very popular author of the day. Her work doesn’t seem to translate to a modern-day mentality, however, especially here where the hero seems decidedly unsympathetic. At least he’s played effectively by James Kirkwood, who actually has a dual role. Because of her domineering stepmother (Mary Mersch), Sylvia Ingleton (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her home in England and heads for South Africa, where she plans to marry her childhood sweetheart, Guy Ranger (Kirkwood). But Guy’s cousin, Burke (also Kirkwood), tells her that he has become a hopeless drug addict. Sylvia and Burke grow close and she promises to marry him if it’s in “name only.” But over time Burke grows to love Sylvia and is tortured by the thought that she still loves Guy. He imagines that they are involved, and he sends them out in a flood to die. But Sylvia returns to tell Burke that she loves him, not Guy. Guy, meanwhile, perishes in the flood.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-satin-woman-m100003678/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-satin-woman-m100003678/ Dorothy Reid — who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport — was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-tender-hour-m100044524/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-tender-hour-m100044524/ This romantic drama was released in 1927.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/wild-oranges-m100054763/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/wild-oranges-m100054763/ Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them – and he’s interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/back-stage-m100004171/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/back-stage-m100004171/ Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it’s up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

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