Denholm Elliott – MRQE

Partners

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

When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father’s paper company and with the help of her gangster boyfriend learns how to fight back against competitors.

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (TV)

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

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

A Doll’s House (1973/I)

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

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband’s esteem.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV)

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

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.

One Against the Wind (TV)

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

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter’s love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.

The Signalman (TV)

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

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.

Scoop (TV)

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

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.

A Murder of Quality (TV)

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

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband’s hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife’s death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other’s little secrets and then gossip about them – or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré’s 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre”s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

The Heart of the Matter

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

Based on Graham Greenes novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

Percy

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

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ’s origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer’s wife – and also to his many, many girlfriends…