Patrick Malahide – MRQE https://mrqe.com Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Patrick Malahide – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Victoria & Albert (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/victoria-and-albert-m100010497-2/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/victoria-and-albert-m100010497-2/ The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV’s death and 18-year-old Victoria’s ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert’s frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.

]]> Miracle at Midnight (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/miracle-at-midnight-m100006888/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/miracle-at-midnight-m100006888/ Gripping historical drama presents a triumphant celebration of the human spirit. The true-life story of how one Danish family risked their lives in a remarkable effort to save thousands of their Jewish countrymen from the horror of Nazi concentration camps. Hendrik and his doctor father undertake the dangerous task of deceiving the Nazis and hiding Jewish families. When the Koster men must themselves go into hiding, Henrik’s sister and mother are left to face capture by the suspicious Gestapo.

]]> Goodbye, Mr. Chips (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/goodbye-mr-chips-m100051409/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/goodbye-mr-chips-m100051409/ In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping’s and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.

]]> Smack and Thistle (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/smack-and-thistle-m100033929/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/smack-and-thistle-m100033929/ With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean… as soon as he’s seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth – rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.

]]> “Alleyn Mysteries” https://mrqe.com/movie/alleyn-mysteries-tv-m100039946/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/alleyn-mysteries-tv-m100039946/ The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994.

In the pilot episode Detective Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams. William Simons played Alleyn’s righthand man and “Watson” figure, Detective Sergeant Fox, and Belinda Lang starred as the painter Agatha Troy, Alleyn’s love interest.

Williams was unavailable when the first series was made, so whilst Simons and Lang reprised their original roles, the lead character was henceforth played by Patrick Malahide.

The BBC made nine episodes in all, each based on a separate novel. The eight episodes featuring Malahide are available on DVD in the USA and UK. An Australian set has all nine episodes.

]]> Kidnapped (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/kidnapped-m100088945/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kidnapped-m100088945/ When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour’s father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.

]]> Into the Storm (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/into-the-storm-m100084020/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/into-the-storm-m100084020/ This powerful follow-up to The Gathering Storm follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years–even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.

]]> The 39 Steps (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-39-steps-m100081280/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-39-steps-m100081280/ Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it’s more than he bargained for when a secret agent bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must personally crack.

]]> “Middlemarch” https://mrqe.com/movie/middlemarch-tv-m100068611/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=46826 19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the progressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual fulfillment in a male-dominated society and is driven into an unhappy marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon. No sooner do they embark on their honeymoon than she meets and develops an instant connection with Casaubon’s young cousin, Will Ladislaw. When idealistic Doctor Lydgate arrives, his new methods of medicine sweep him into the battle between conservatives and liberals in town. He quickly becomes enamored of the beautiful, privileged Rosamond Vincy, a woman whose troubles seem bound to destroy him.

]]> Victoria & Albert (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/victoria-and-albert-m100010497/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/victoria-and-albert-m100010497/ The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV’s death and 18-year-old Victoria’s ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert’s frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.

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