Ronald Pickup – MRQE

The Philanthropist (TV)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.

“Rector’s Wife, The”

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

Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman’s wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV)

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

Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.

Jekyll & Hyde (TV)

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

Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.

Ivanhoe (TV)

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

Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.

A Murder of Quality (TV)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband’s hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife’s death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other’s little secrets and then gossip about them – or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré’s 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre”s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

The Mission

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

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

End of Term

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

A group of students are tormented by the lingering menace of Garth Stroman, an artist who had a disturbing vision fifty years prior. The pupils discover that true art can only be achieved through suffering and pain.

Darkest Hour

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

The Time of Their Lives

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

Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover’s funeral on glamorous French hideaway Île de Ré, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with help of repressed English housewife Priscilla and they hit the road together in a race to get to the funeral on time.