Don DeFore – MRQE

Dark City

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

Gamblers who “took” an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

All This and World War II

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

Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.

The Facts of Life

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

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other’s manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together–without their spouses–on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

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

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

Battle Hymn

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

Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess establishes a large home for orphans. The preacher’s efforts are threatened when the Korean “police action” breaks out in 1950.

She’s Working Her Way Through College

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

Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor’s wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show…but someone has discovered her secret past.

No Room for the Groom

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

Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper’s daughter. But Alvah’s chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee’s manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she’s filled the house.

Jumping Jacks

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

Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier. When Chick organises a soldier show at Fort Benning, he realizes he needs his former partner’s helpso, to get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized SNAFU.

A Girl in Every Port

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

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

The Guy Who Came Back

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

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.