Jonathan Hale – MRQE

Black Gold

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

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Stampede

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

Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.

The Judge

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

A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to “go straight” when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.

This Is the Life

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

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret’s fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret’s divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.

In Name Only

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

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

The Three Outlaws

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ready to quit their life of crime, the three “most-wanted” outlaws in the West—Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver —perform their final job by robbing and stealing a train and fleeing across the border. In a South American town they begin their life of respectability by purchasing a ranch and depositing their stolen fortune in the local bank, and throwing a big fiesta to entertain the locals, including Colonel Aguilar and his beautiful daughter Rita.

The Steel Trap

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

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.

Strangers on a Train

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

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player a theory he plans to test out.

State Department: File 649

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

Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department’s Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw’s headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.

Her Husband’s Affairs

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

Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret’s approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor’s embalming fluid.