Dennis Wyndham – MRQE

Carmen

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

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent then a rising young conductor acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimées classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizets opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmens tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.

The Informer

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

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

Black Jack

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

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law’s closing in.

Bell-Bottom George

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

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.

Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Oh, Mr. Porter!

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

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.

Windbag the Sailor

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

The Man They Couldn’t Arrest

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

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

Convict 99

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.