Claude Gillingwater – MRQE

Remembrance

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

Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him — and his money — for granted. Grout’s attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they’ve treated Pops…..

Ticket to Paradise

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

A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.

Counterfeit

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.

Illicit

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

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.

Cafe Society

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

Before Midnight

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

The Great Divide

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

Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.

The Avenger

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

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Fast and Furious

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

When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield’s beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight

Kiss Me Again

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.