Noel Purcell – MRQE

Svengali

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Saints and Sinners

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

What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.

The Seekers

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

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

The Key

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

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into “U-Boat Alley” to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He’s given a key by a fellow tugboat-man — a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

The Blue Lagoon

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the Victorian period two British children are the survivors of a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote paradise.

Where’s Jack?

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

Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.

The Iron Maiden

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher’s daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack’s prize traction engine “The Iron Maiden”, rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack’s plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

Double Bunk

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

When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.

No Kidding

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

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.

The Millionairess

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.