Richard Vernon – MRQE https://mrqe.com Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:12:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Richard Vernon – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Tosca (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/tosca-m100032719/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tosca-m100032719/ Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.

]]> “Duchess of Duke Street, The” https://mrqe.com/movie/duchess-of-duke-street-the-tv-m100000689/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/duchess-of-duke-street-the-tv-m100000689/ Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous “Duchess”, who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James’s.

]]> “Hadleigh” https://mrqe.com/movie/hadleigh-tv-m100085553/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/hadleigh-tv-m100085553/ Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a sequel to the writer’s earlier Gazette for the same company. The theme music was composed by Alan Moorhouse and, from series 3, Tony Hatch.

James Hadleigh played by Gerald Harper, was “the perfect squire, paternalistically careful of his tenantry’s welfare, beloved in the village, respected in the council.” A “knight in a shining white Aston Martin V8, he sets about correcting local injustices.” His wife, from a lower-class background, was played by Hilary Dwyer. The series attracted around 17 million viewers at its peak.

]]> “Sandbaggers, The” https://mrqe.com/movie/sandbaggers-the-tv-m100068694/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sandbaggers-the-tv-m100068694/ The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

]]> The Servant https://mrqe.com/movie/the-servant-m100023429/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-servant-m100023429/ Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboys girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse

]]> A Month in the Country https://mrqe.com/movie/a-month-in-the-country-m100045784/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-month-in-the-country-m100045784/ A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.

]]> The Secret of My Success https://mrqe.com/movie/the-secret-of-my-success-m100048428/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=161321 Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.

]]> Sammy’s Super T-Shirt https://mrqe.com/movie/sammys-super-tshirt-m100093629/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sammys-super-tshirt-m100093629/ A young boy’s lucky t-shirt is transformed through a power surge and gives its wearer super-powers.

]]> The Pink Panther Strikes Again https://mrqe.com/movie/the-pink-panther-strikes-again-m100051680/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-pink-panther-strikes-again-m100051680/ Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau’s antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

]]> The Satanic Rites of Dracula https://mrqe.com/movie/the-satanic-rites-of-dracula-m100029009/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-satanic-rites-of-dracula-m100029009/ The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.

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