Emlyn Williams – MRQE

The Epic That Never Was (TV)

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

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of “I, Claudius”, starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Three Husbands

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish–granted to all newcomers–he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each’s wife.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer’s secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady’s prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.

The Dictator

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

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen’s tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.

The Deep Blue Sea

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

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)

Ivanhoe

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

The Citadel

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

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

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

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

Beyond This Place

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

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

I Accuse!

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

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the “Dreyfus Affair.” Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.