Hal Holbrook – MRQE

Mark Twain Tonight! (TV)

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain’s own words for a commentary on slavery, religion and politics, mixing the satire with comic yarns about life on the Mississippi and a very effective ghost story. The show’s highlight are the lengthy passages from “Huckleberry Finn”.

My Own Country (TV)

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.

Day One (TV)

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

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

A Killing in a Small Town (TV)

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

The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant’s attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?

The Glass Menagerie (TV)

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

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.

Operation Delta Force (TV)

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

A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

Flying Lessons

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

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer’s Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie’s struggle to remember.

“Evening Shade”

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his former team because he is a fan.

The general theme of the show is the appeal of small town life. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summing up the events of the episode, always closing with “… in a place called Evening Shade.” The show’s final episode saw the guest appearances of Willie Nelson and Buzz Aldrin as escaped convicts on the run from authorities, the final scene being a spectacular shoot-out reminiscent of the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard’s Bar-be-que, which is situated on Albert Pike Blvd. and South Patterson St. in Hot Springs National Park.

Midway

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Hush

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

Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson’s mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son’s affection for Helen, and, despite her Southern smile, she’s starting to act strangely. As Helen tries to create a happy home life, Martha attempts to divide the family so that Jackson will become hers alone.