Dorothy Peterson – MRQE

Confession

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera’s life.

Breaking the Ice

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

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.

The Woman in the Window

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

The Man in the Trunk

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

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

Bought!

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

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

This Is the Life

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

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret’s fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret’s divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.

That Hagen Girl

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

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is ‘not one of us’. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.

Henry Aldrich for President

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

Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella’s life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

Laddie

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.