Kenneth Harlan – MRQE

The Beautiful and Damned

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Beautiful and Damned is one of the earliest cinemazations of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost play a jazz-age married couple who go through money like water. The least responsible of the two is Prevost, but Harlan isn’t far behind. Things are okay so long as Harlan’s wealthy grandfather Tully Marshall is around to foot the bills. But when Marshall dies, the profligate duo are forced to (horrors!) look for work. Once they’ve fattened their bank account, the couple goes back to their old hedonistic lifestyle, but a close brush with death brings them to their senses. Harry Myers and Louise Fazenda provide expert comedy relief to this cautionary fable.

Phantom Killer

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

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.

The Shadow of the Eagle

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

The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.

Dollars and Sense

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

Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers’ bakery slips into debt, he collapses from exhaustion and anxiety, forcing Hazel to turn to former admirer Geoffrey Stanhope for financial aid. Stanhope consents in return for a night alone with Hazel, but when she arrives at his hotel room for the appointed tryst, she discovers Stanhope waiting with Rogers and a minister so that Hazel can marry her employer.

The Virginian

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

Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian’s best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.

The Law Rides Again

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

When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson hit the trail with captured outlaw Duke Dillon (Jack La Rue) to find out what sparked the uprising. They discover clues that point to corrupt Indian agent John Hampton (Kenneth Harlan), but meanwhile, the bandit Dillon pulls a fast one on the marshals, and soon everybody’s getting ready for a showdown.

Bandit Ranger

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

Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin’s story and has Travers framed for the ranger’s murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.

Dick Tracy’s G-Men

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

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.

The Shadow Strikes

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

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as “The Shadow”, to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney’s office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.

Gunsmoke Ranch

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

A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.