John Hudson – MRQE

Return to Paradise

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

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

All in a Night’s Work

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

After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle’s death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine’s wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.

The Screaming Skull

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

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric’s first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

When Gangland Strikes

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

In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.

The Marauders

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

A poor homesteader fights back when he’s targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.

The Racers

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

An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.

Many Rivers to Cross

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

Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were impressed upon him on threat of death), Gentry heads into the North Country, with Mary in hot pursuit. Hero and heroine spend the rest of the picture taking turns rescuing each other from hostile Indians. Some of the humor is predicated upon the wholesale slaughter of the “redskins”, and as such is a bit hard to take when seen today. Supporting Taylor and Parker are Victor McLaglen as the heroine’s burly father, and TV-stars-to be James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan’s Island).

Silver Lode

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

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

The Battle at Apache Pass

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

Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer’s son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise’s band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.

The Cimarron Kid

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

Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man’s daughter to South America, but he’s captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.