Ivan Dixon – MRQE

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (TV)

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show’s host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.

Car Wash

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

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar’s Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers — including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict — while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

Clay Pigeon

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

An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who’s quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can’t stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.

A Patch of Blue

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

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

To Trap a Spy

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

The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.

Nothing But a Man

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

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Battle at Bloody Beach

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

This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical “To Hell and Back.” Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before

A Raisin in the Sun

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

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.