Elisabeth Fraser – MRQE

The Man Who Came to Dinner

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

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

A Patch of Blue

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

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Two for the Seesaw

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebraskan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece with a static camera, but reflects the moral climate of the time.

Ask Any Girl

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.

The Tunnel of Love

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

A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife’s surrogate.

Young at Heart

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter’s life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

So Big

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk’s life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.

Callaway Went Thataway

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

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.

Hills of Oklahoma

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

In this remake of Gene Autry’s 1942 “Call of the Canyon”, Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman’s association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman’s association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.

The Hidden Hand

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

Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.