Norman Wooland – MRQE

Escape

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

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

Madeleine

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

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Barabba

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

Epic biblical tale about the criminal who was released by Pontius Pilate in preference to Jesus, prior to the Crucifixion. The action follows Barabbas after his lucky escape, his return to crime and his subsequent recapture and imprisonment in the sulphur mines. Based on the novel by Swedish writer Par Lagerkvist.

Romeo and Juliet

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

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

Ireland 1587. Hugh O’Donnell inherits the title of The O’Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans’ good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy’s villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.

Saul e David

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

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.

Masters of Venus

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

A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet Venus, and encounters a race of beings that the crew begins to suspect are descended from the lost city of Atlantis.

An Honourable Murder

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

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.

My Teenage Daughter

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

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony’s fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

Background

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

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax’s marriage reduced to bitter sniping and “keeping up appearances” for the sake of the children. When John’s old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.