Owen Moore – MRQE

A Star Is Born

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

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

The Battle of the Sexes

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York’s night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband’s infidelity. At this time the mother’s mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails.

Cinderella

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

Based on Charles Perrault’s fairy tale: Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but she is able to go to the Royal Ball with the help of the Fairy Godmother.

High Voltage

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

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

Outside the Law

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

Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins’ territory. Fingers’ moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won’t be for another week when the call comes through saying it’s now.

Stolen Love

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

The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?

Money Talks

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

Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.

The Dream

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

A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.

Under Cover

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

A woman returning from a trip to Paris must help U.S. customs inspectors find a valuable necklace suspected to be in the possession of a fellow traveler. The film is presumed lost.

Sooner or Later

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When newlywed Robert Ellis suspects that his missing wife is having a clandestine affair, he appeals to his friend, Pat Murphy, to find her. Pat’s search leads him to the Waldorf-Astoria where he finds a woman named Edna Ellis and, assuming that she is Ellis’ errant wife, kidnaps her and returns her to Ellis. Complications arise when the real Mrs. Ellis arrives home and discovers another woman. After several comic incidents, Pat falls in love with Edna and Ellis learns that his wife’s secret rendezvous was with her sister.