Leslie Banks – MRQE

Madeleine

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

The Most Dangerous Game

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

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

The Tunnel

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

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

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

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

The Small Back Room

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

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.

The True Glory

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

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France

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

In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Went the Day Well?

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

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England’s radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.

Cottage to Let

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

Busman’s Honeymoon

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

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar…