Richard Rober – MRQE

The Well

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?

Backfire

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

When he’s discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

April Showers

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

A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they’re almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they’ll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That’s when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they’re dead set on breaking up the act.

Jet Pilot

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

John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who’s tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming — at the height of the Cold War — that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she’s a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

The Devil Makes Three

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

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

Outlaw Women

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

A old west town run by women. All the town’s business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.

Man in the Saddle

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

Passage West

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.

Father’s Little Dividend

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

In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

The Woman on Pier 13

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

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.