John Slater – MRQE

Against the Wind

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

A Place to Go

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

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.

For Those in Peril

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air – Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.

Three on a Spree

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man will inherit a huge fortune–8 million pounds–but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That’s what you think!

Violent Playground

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

A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

Johnny You’re Wanted

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

Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny’s hitchhiker and she’s dead.

The Million Pound Note

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

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

Star of India

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

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre’s property if he will help her get possession of the ‘Star of India,’ a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne.

The Flanagan Boy

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

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager’s wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna’s ultimate plan… .to murder her husband.

The Faithful City

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain. That it happens to be entertaining in the bargain is all the more reason to seek out this extremely rare film.