George Meeker – MRQE

Slaves of the Invisible Monster (TV)

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

Superman

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

Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home’s first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.

The First Year

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

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.

Only Yesterday

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

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we’re taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

The Escape

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

This second filmization of Paul Armstrong’s play +Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the daughter of a scummy bootlegger who falls in love with medical intern Jerry Magee (William Russell). When May is forced to go to work in a sleazy nightclub, Jerry becomes so disconsolate that he loses his job and takes to bootlegging himself. Only when forced to confront himself does Jerry straighten up and seek out a new life, with May at his side. William Demarest provides comic relief as a minor gangster.

Back Street

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life.

Tess of the Storm Country

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

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield’s son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.

Twilight in the Sierras

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

Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: “It’s One Wonderful Day,” “Rootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy,” “Pancho’s Rancho” and the title song.

The Invisible Monster

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

Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.

Omoo-Omoo the Shark God

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.