Jack Lord – MRQE

The Hangman

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

A marshal nicknamed “The Hangman” because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.

Project X

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

Project X was one of a cycle of anti-Red films produced in the late 1940s. Keith Andes plays an ex-Communist who is strongarmed into cooperating with the Feds. Pretending to become a “comrade” again, Andes rejoins the local Communist cell. Moving about freely, he is able to track down a gang of spies who are smuggling atomic secrets. Filmed on location in New York, Project X has the surface “feel” of a documentary, though the dialogue is strictly from the funny papers. Keep an eye out for a very young Jack Lord.

“Hawaii Five-O”

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

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to “Book ’em, Danno!”, sometimes specifying a charge such as “murder one”.

The Name of the Game Is Kill

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

A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn’t realize exactly what they have in store for him.

Ride to Hangman’s Tree

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

Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.

Dr. No

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

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Walk Like a Dragon

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

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln ‘Linc’ Bartlett finds out there’s a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn’t occur to Linc that setting her free isn’t enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn’t speak English and she’s just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc’s mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.

Man of the West

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

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.

God’s Little Acre

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

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

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

When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.