Paul Nicholson – MRQE

The Game of Their Lives

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

A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the North Koreans upset Italy, 1-0.

Joanna

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

Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a gut who hasn’t got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially, the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.

New Movietone Follies of 1930

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

Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.

The Smart Set

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

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.

Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl

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

Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.

The Nervous Wreck

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

Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud’s daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem’ Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.

Up in Mabel’s Room

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

Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won’t explain who it’s for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.

Married Flirts

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

Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.