Robert Newton – MRQE

Obsession

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

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife’s lover.

Oliver Twist

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

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin’s evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Tom Brown’s Schooldays

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

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, hes mercilessly tormented by the schools evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, hes asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.

Androcles and the Lion

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

George Bernard Shaws breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fableabout a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lions paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind actwas written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascals final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. Hes ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Long John Silver

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

In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

The Beachcomber

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

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the “sanctimonious, psalm-singing” brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted – a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.

The High and the Mighty

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

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight – one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

The Desert Rats

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

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.

Blackbeard, the Pirate

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship’s surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Soldiers Three

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

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.