Ronald Howard – MRQE

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (V)

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.

The Browning Version

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

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school’s students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life’s work.

Week-end à Zuydcoote

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Siege of the Saxons

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King’s death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.

Nurse on Wheels

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

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer – at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

Murder She Said

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

Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Come September

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

Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the “hotel” are a group of young American girls.

The Monster of Highgate Ponds

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

Babette s’en va-t-en guerre

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

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.

No Trees in the Street

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

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn’t completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes’ own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes’ sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.