Mary Morris – MRQE

Sometime in August

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Neil’s beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.

King Richard the Second (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king – wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far…

High Treason

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

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

The Man from Morocco

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

With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.

‘Pimpernel’ Smith

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

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

The Thief of Bagdad

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

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

Victoria the Great

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

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert’s death in 1861.

Double Door

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the familys gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.