Fay Compton – MRQE

The Haunting

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

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.

The Mill on the Floss

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

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

The Virgin and the Gypsy

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

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author’s death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

A Woman of No Importance

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

A widow’s son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

The Story of Esther Costello

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

Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther’s village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther’s innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller’s co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan

Town on Trial

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

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50’s.

Lady Possessed

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

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

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

Laughter in Paradise

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

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.

Britannia Mews

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

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.