Richard Jordan – MRQE

American Playhouse:: A Flash of Green (TVE)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the developer’s latest project.

“Murder of Mary Phagan, The”

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

The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part American TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures and distributed by NBC. It has a running time of 251 minutes. It is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged and convicted with murdering a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. The trial was sensational and controversial. After Frank’s legal appeals had failed, the governor of Georgia in 1915 commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men of Marietta, Georgia

Miserables, Les (TV)

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

Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

Gettysburg

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Primary Motive

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

In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate’s idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies.

Shout

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

A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

Heaven Is a Playground

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

On Chicago’s South Side, too many kids get their one shot in life at the wrong end of a gun. But Byron Harper is determined to change all that with a dream called basketball. His hottest player, Truth, has a chance to turn pro, but first Harper has to tackle two major obstacles: Truth’s drug problem and his ambitious, crooked sports agent. Enter Zack Telander, a promising young attorney who has given up his small-town law practice. He’s spending a summer in the city playing pick-up basketball games and re-thinking his future. Harper asks for his help, but first Zack has to prove himself at hoops.

Timebomb

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

When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn’t his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar for help. Anna thinks he’s hallucinating until another attack proves the dangers are all too real. The two of them go on the run, trying to discover the truth about Eddie’s past and true identity before it kills them.

Romero

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.

The Secret of My Succe$s

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

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs – and girls – are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company’s mail room.