Kathleen Byron – MRQE

Hand in Hand

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

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends “forever and ever and can’t be parted for never and never”. Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.

“Portrait of a Marriage”

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

The remarkable true story of Edwardian writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.

The Abdication

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

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.

Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood

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

Robert of Locksley is harbouring a runaway serf. A warrant is then issued for Robert’s arrest: he is now an outlaw. Stars David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron and Ciaran Madden

Twins of Evil

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

While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav’s zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

Private Road

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

A single moment can divide a life into before and after. Private Road follows Sarah over the course of one afternoon after an unexpected encounter quietly unsettles the certainty on which she has built her life.

Night of the Eagle

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

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn’t put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.

Young Bess

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

The mother died under the executioner’s axe; the daughter rose to become England’s greatest monarch — the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth’s birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry’s last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons’ then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.

The Gambler and the Lady

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

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She’s not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

The House in the Square

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

Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather’s diaries. He falls in love with his forefather’s cousin Helen but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possess.