Marcia Harris – MRQE

Take Me Home

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

Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show’s star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.

Saturday’s Children

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

Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.

Kathleen Mavourneen

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

Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and forces her father to allow him to marry her to forgive the father’s debt.

The Right to Love

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

An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.

So’s Your Old Man

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

Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

The Sorrows of Satan

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

Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince’s hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn’t know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.

Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em

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

Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister’s, be it her clothes or her men – even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can’t break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.

The Reckless Lady

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

Isn’t Life Wonderful

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

A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga’s future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.

Sinners in Heaven

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

Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.