Julia Foster – MRQE

“Wilde Alliance, The”

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

Wilde Alliance is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1978. The programme was a light-hearted mystery series created by Ian Mackintosh about a husband-and-wife pair of amateur detectives, Rupert and Amy Wilde.

The System

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

In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling photographer, aims to conquer a fashion model from a well-to-do family, but he finds himself unexpectedly falling in love. The tables thus turned, Tinker begins to see that maybe it’s not the tourists who are being used in these sexual games.

Alfie

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

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

The Great McGonagall

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

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria – a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers – and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall’s solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn’t stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land. The image of the bad poet, trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear, appealed mightily to Spike Milligan, and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous, genre-defying best.

All Coppers Are…

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.

Flick

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

Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.

Half a Sixpence

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

The joyous screen version of the Broadway and London musical hit. “If I had the money, I’d buy me a banjo!” says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he’ll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin’ orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness? Multi-talented Steele brings his London and New York stage smash to the screen in this big, cheerful tune-filled production based on H.G. Wells’ charming novel “Kipps.”

One Way Pendulum

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

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.

The Bargee

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

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks – causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.

The Small World of Sammy Lee

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

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.