Frank Orth – MRQE

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

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

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father’s will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

Hot Money

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

Double Dynamite

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

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

The Great Rupert

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family’s guardian angel – not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

Pillow to Post

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

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don’s mother shows up and then Jean’s father.

Storm Over Lisbon

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

A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

The Magnificent Dope

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

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the “dope” takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson’s other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad’s attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

Rings on Her Fingers

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

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn’t belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as “Linda Worthington”. But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells “Linda”, not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat…

Over My Dead Body

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he’ll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

Nancy Drew — Detective

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

Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a “widow” in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.