Gibb McLaughlin – MRQE

London

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

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

The Old Curiosity Shop

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

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper’s long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.

Where There’s a Will

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

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities

Juggernaut

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

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

Inspector Hornleigh

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

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh’s assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

Broken Blossoms

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

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith’s Masterpiece.

I Give My Heart

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

The Loves of Mme. DuBarry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The DuBarry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at last as the glamorous Madame DuBarry, mistress of Louis XV (Owen Nares). Refusing to gloss over DuBarry’s sexual peccadilloes (as previous films with Norma Talmadge and Dolores del Rio had done), the film presents the “heroine” as a whore, pure and simple-or, on second thought, not so pure and simple! Particularly troublesome for American censors was a scene in which DuBarry is depicted as a resident of a bawdy house. Otherwise, The Loves of Madame DuBarry is standard historical-drama fare, allowing dozens of top European actors to play “dress-up” for 90 minutes.

Me and Marlborough

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

A woman disguises herself in men’s clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Hyde Park Corner

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

A dead man’s curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

Little Friend

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

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents’ scandalous divorce case.