Frank Currier – MRQE

The First Year

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

One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband’s.

Revelation

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

Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul’s paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline’s life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul’s life.

The Enemy

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

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl’s father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl’s return from the front.

The Red Lantern

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

Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she finds the color line impossible to pass and returns to lead her Chinese people in rebellion.

Easy Come, Easy Go

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

Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend’s father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).

Men of Steel

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

Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls — wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick — simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn’t commit.

The Brat

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

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.

Across to Singapore

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

While Joel and his older ship’s captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship’s mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.

The Callahans and the Murphys

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

Two neighboring women argue across their tenement alleyway, while two of their offspring fall in love.

Tell It to the Marines

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

U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns’s lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O’Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O’Hara’s feelings and is attracted to the handsome ‘Skeet.’ But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord’s bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.