Edna Best – MRQE

A Dispatch from Reuter’s

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

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Loose Ends

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

‘A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect’s involvement in a murder.’ (British Film Institute)

Escape

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

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.

South Riding

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

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.’ She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man’s personal sufferings make him what he is in public. ” Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Swiss Family Robinson

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

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

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

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

The Iron Curtain

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

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.

Intermezzo: A Love Story

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

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.

The Faithful Heart

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

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall’s life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.

Michael and Mary

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

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child….