Charles Hill Mailes – MRQE

What a Night!

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

The Man in the Saddle

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

A party of campers return to Tom Stewart’s ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart confirms this and refunds the losses but writes to his old pal Jeff Morgan, a former gunfighter, telling him of his predicament. Morgan sends his son, Jeff, Jr., a superb rider and dead shot but otherwise an awkward lout; at the insistence of Pauline, Stewart places Jeff in charge of a camping party. Laura Mayhew, a city girl in league with Lawrence, sends up a flare signal at night, and while Jeff chases some bears into the woods, Lawrence and his men hold up the camp.

The Mark of Zorro

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

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.

Murder by Television

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

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.

The Carnation Kid

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

It’s a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.

The Phantom City

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

A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.

Drums of Love

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

A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.

The City Gone Wild

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

Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend’s death.

The College Widow

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

Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, the professor’s beautiful daughter, uses her personal charm to draw noted football stars from neighboring schools by a series of ruses at a vacationing spot. Billy Bolton, son of a financial magnate, falls for Jane and to prove himself registers under another name and works his way through school, attaining scholastic and athletic honors. Through the jealousy of another girl, Billy learns of Jane’s trickery and persuades the athletes not to play;

Great Mail Robbery

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

Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.