Dorothy Patrick – MRQE

The Peacemaker

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ex-gunslinger (James Mitchell) settles a war between ranchers and farmers, in his new role as parson.

The View from Pompey’s Head

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

Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?

Las Vegas Shakedown

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.

Man of Conflict

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

Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father’s poverty-stricken workers.

Torch Song

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

Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn’t take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.

The Big Gusher

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

Hoping to strike it rich, four people–two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer–pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A Columbia Pictures B-film from 1951.

711 Ocean Drive

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund OBrien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

Come to the Stable

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

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children’s hospital.

Follow Me Quietly

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

1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as “the Judge” who kills his victims on rainy nights.

High Wall

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

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he’s committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet’s story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.