James Barton – MRQE

The Time of Your Life

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

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick’s, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

The Misfits

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

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido’s half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Quantez

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

A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, theyre forced to stay the night with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.

The Naked Hills

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

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.

Here Comes the Groom

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

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he’ll lose the orphans he adopted.

The Scarf

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

A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

Wabash Avenue

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

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike’s business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike’s position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike’s motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy’s revenge comes unravelled.

Yellow Sky

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

In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.

The Shepherd of the Hills

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

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.