John Mills – MRQE

“Woman of Substance, A”

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th-century, to respected businesswoman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years, she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds.

Murder with Mirrors (TV)

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

When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.

The Masks of Death (TV)

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

Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems…

Escapade (1957/II)

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

An English pacifist’s (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

Night of the Fox (TV)

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

An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British SOE agent impersonating an SD officer.

King Rat

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

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King’s enthusiastic approach to life.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

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

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston’s The African Queen and King Vidor’s War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

The End of the Affair

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

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice’s jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.

Great Expectations

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

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.