https://mrqe.com Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:17:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-cradle-buster-m100049037/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-cradle-buster-m100049037/ Stage favorite Glenn Hunter plays one Benjamin Franklin Read. Since birth, Benjamin has been coddled and protected by his loving mama (Beatrice Morgan). In adulthood, he must withstand the slings and arrows of his contemporaries, who (not without justification) consider him a pantywaist. How Benjamin proves his manhood and wins the girl (Marguerite Courtot) is the crux of this leisurely paced rustic drama. Cradle Buster was produced, directed and written by Frank Tuttle, long before this prolific filmmaker began emulating the smooth sophistication of Ernst Lubitsch.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/scarface-m100013139/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/scarface-m100013139/ In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio ‘Tony’ Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/syncopation-m100066623/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/syncopation-m100066623/ Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/i-dream-too-much-m100030407/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/i-dream-too-much-m100030407/ Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette’s success. Despite her husband’s jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan’s opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/gold-diggers-of-1937-m100030908/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/gold-diggers-of-1937-m100030908/ The partners of stage-producer J.J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they dont count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/secret-of-the-chateau-m100095710/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/secret-of-the-chateau-m100095710/ Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-president-vanishes-m100054906/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-president-vanishes-m100054906/ The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout’s political novel of the same name.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/kansas-city-princess-m100039476/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kansas-city-princess-m100039476/ Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who’s given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite’s wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/tarnished-lady-m100031824/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tarnished-lady-m100031824/ Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father’s death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother’s wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/knockout-reilly-m100022002/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/knockout-reilly-m100022002/ A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named “Killer”; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight “Killer”; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that “Killer” framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!

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