Robin Bailey – MRQE https://mrqe.com Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:46:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Robin Bailey – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Performance:: Tales from Hollywood (TVE) https://mrqe.com/movie/tales-from-hollywood-m100077859/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/tales-from-hollywood-m100077859/ A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.

]]> “I Didn’t Know You Cared” https://mrqe.com/movie/i-didnt-know-you-cared-tv-m100068371/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/i-didnt-know-you-cared-tv-m100068371/ I Didn’t Know You Cared is a British comedy series set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn’t Know You Cared and Except You’re A Bird. It was broadcast by the BBC in four series from 1975 to 1979.

The main characters are Carter Brandon; his Uncle Mort; his mother, Annie; his father, Les; his girlfriend, Pat Partington; and Uncle Staveley. Auntie Lil appears in the first two series. Other recurring characters, mostly from Carter’s workplace, are Linda Preston; Mrs Partington; Sid Skelhorn

]]> “Charters & Caldicott” https://mrqe.com/movie/charters-and-caldicott-tv-m100120830/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/charters-and-caldicott-tv-m100120830/ Charters and Caldicott is a 1985 BBC mystery series featuring the characters Charters and Caldicott from the film The Lady Vanishes. It featured six 50 minute episodes broadcast on BBC1 at 9.25pm on Thursdays from 10 January to 14 February 1985.

]]> Blind Terror https://mrqe.com/movie/blind-terror-m100006794/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/blind-terror-m100006794/ In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle’s family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.

]]> The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-fool-of-the-world-and-the-flying-ship-m100013000/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-fool-of-the-world-and-the-flying-ship-m100013000/ Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar’s daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several ‘impossible” tasks for ‘The Fool of the World’ and his remarkable friends.

]]> Jane and the Lost City https://mrqe.com/movie/jane-and-the-lost-city-m100013390/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jane-and-the-lost-city-m100013390/ Jane and the Colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Nazis do. Comedy based on the popular wartime comic strip.

]]> Screamtime https://mrqe.com/movie/screamtime-m100012033/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=95307 Compilation of three short horror films: “That’s The Way To Do It”, “Dreamhouse” and “Do You Believe In Fairies?” plus some new linking material.

]]> Gift Horse https://mrqe.com/movie/gift-horse-m100029137/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/gift-horse-m100029137/ Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

]]> Portrait of Clare https://mrqe.com/movie/portrait-of-clare-m100056940/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/portrait-of-clare-m100056940/ The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

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