Jean Hersholt – MRQE

Reunion

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.

The Disciple

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

Jim Houston, the “Shootin’ Iron” Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.

Daybreak

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

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Grand Hotel

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

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Heidi

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

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man’s wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

The Goldfish

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

A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.

The Battle of the Sexes

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

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson’s apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom’s devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he’s being a fool?

Transatlantic

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

As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship’s engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.

The Painted Veil

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

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

The Fountain

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

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.