Meinhart Maur – MRQE

Harakiri

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

Harakiri

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

The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.

Dick Barton at Bay

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

David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London’s Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell’s daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff’s crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

We’ll Smile Again

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

Comic actors Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen, members in good standing of Britain’s “The Crazy Gang”, head the cast of the wartime mirthspinner We’ll Smile Again. The film is set at a movie studio, where production of an Arabian Nights epic is constantly interrupted by the fumbling and bumbling of Bob Parker (Flanagan) and Gordon Maxwell (Allen). The two screw-ups redeem themselves by capturing a Nazi spy ring, headed by film star Gina Cavendish (Phyllis Stanley) and Teutonic director Steiner (Meinhardt Maur). Bumptuous radio comedian Horace Kenny contributes to the zaniness as a self-important studio makeup man. The producers engagingly make fun of the film’s ultra-low budget with the opening disclaimer “The Anglo-American Film Corporation announces proudly that no expense has been spared to save money on this production.”

An Englishman’s Home

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

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

Return of the Frog

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

The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.