Dick Powell – MRQE

Pitfall

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

An insurance man’s affair with a blonde leads to guilt, murder and a confession to his wife.

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

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

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

Christmas in July

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

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

To the Ends of the Earth

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

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Riding High

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

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father’s silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they’ve been flim-flammed, but a last minute “miracle” saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it’s only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.

Hard to Get

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

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Happy Go Lucky

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

A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.

Meet the People

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

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.

Going Places

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare’s comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused…