Paul Panzer – MRQE

The Haunted Hotel

Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

Autumn

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Jeanette Arden dies giving birth to her daughter Autumn, and Jeanette’s husband George, who had gone for a doctor, receives a head wound. The injury makes him lose his memory, and so Autumn is raised by her godfather. Many years pass, and Royal Mounted Policeman Dick Leslie is assigned to locate George. Dick meets Autumn, who also comes to the attention of the gambler, Diamond Jack.

Männersache

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

During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedian. Things are going really badly until he cracks jokes about his best buddy Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. The audience goes wild with excitement! But Hotte and Susi are p* off. Paul has to decide: friendship or career?

Big Brother

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.

The Perils of Pauline

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her character more resourceful and less helpless than the classic ‘damsel’ stereotype. Nine episodes (from a condensed 1916 re-release) survive to this day.

Narcotic

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As the opening scroll tells us, Narcotic was “presented in the hope that the public may become aware of the terrific struggle to rid the world of drug addiction.” The movie itself is a salacious plunge into a world of sordid pleasures. It tells us the story of Dr. William G. Davies, an infamous snake-oil salesman who started his career as a promising medical student.

Glorious Betsy

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

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film – the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin – to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.

The Girl from Chicago

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

Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.

Three Faces East

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Best Bad Man

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.