Emil Rameau – MRQE

The Ghost Goes Wild

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

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero’s behalf.

Gaslight

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Nur am Rhein …

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nur Am Rhein (Only on the Rhine) is a standard “heimat”-style musical, with handsome young Germans lifting their voices and beer steins in song and pretty blonde frauleins giggling appreciatively before going into their dance. At the end of WWI, the British forces occupy the Rhineland, where English captain Barrymore (Igo Sym) falls in love with burgomeister’s daughter Hanna (Dasy D’Ora). When Barrymore’s interpreter Lehmann (Julius Falkenstein) spreads malicious gossip about the captain and his lady, Hanna’s brother Karl (Carl Bauhaus) decides to teach the loose-tongued Lehmann as lesson. Karl and his college buddies subject Lehmann to a fraternity hazing, and as a result he is arrested and threatened with a lengthy prison term for insulting a British official. Only the evacuation of the English saves Karl from durance vile, allowing Barrymore and Hanna to get married with a clear conscience.

4 Devils

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

One out of three silent adaptations of the novella “Les quatre diables” written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although unfortunately lost, is without any doubt F.W. Murnau’s “4 Devils”. This German version, by Danish director A.W. Sandberg, was done eight years prior to Murnau’s American one, and was a big success at the time.