Clarence Burton – MRQE

Submarine

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.

The Beautiful and Damned

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Beautiful and Damned is one of the earliest cinemazations of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost play a jazz-age married couple who go through money like water. The least responsible of the two is Prevost, but Harlan isn’t far behind. Things are okay so long as Harlan’s wealthy grandfather Tully Marshall is around to foot the bills. But when Marshall dies, the profligate duo are forced to (horrors!) look for work. Once they’ve fattened their bank account, the couple goes back to their old hedonistic lifestyle, but a close brush with death brings them to their senses. Harry Myers and Louise Fazenda provide expert comedy relief to this cautionary fable.

Chicago

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb’s 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.

Fool’s Paradise

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.

Stand and Deliver

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.

The Ten Commandments

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

The Last of the Duanes

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Buck Duane guns down the man who killed his father and flees from the law. He rescues a girl he once loved from outlaws, but the wife of outlaw chief has her own designs on him.

Three Faces East

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

A spy story that takes place during World War I.

The Godless Girl

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.

The Angel of Broadway

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

Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.