Mae Marsh – MRQE

The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man’s thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man’s conscience awakens; Paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.

The Rat

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

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters’ lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.

The Birth of a Nation

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

The White Rose

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

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what “the real world” is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph’s child.

That’s My Boy

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

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

Home, Sweet Home

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

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

Over the Hill

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

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.

All Woman

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community….

The Escape

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk

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

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.