Rudolph Anders – MRQE

Spy Smasher Returns (TV)

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

Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial “Spy Smasher,” cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.

Frankenstein – 1970

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

The baron’s grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Captain Scarface

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

A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship’s captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.

Phantom from Space

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

After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.

Dangerous Millions

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

Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.

Under Nevada Skies

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

Rodeo star Roy Rogers returns home to find that his old friend Tom Craig has been murdered after he was accused of stealing a family crest from Helen Williams. Helen joins up with Roy and Gabby Whittaker to find the killers and the crest.

The Devil with Hitler

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

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn’t appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.

Desperate Journey

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

A British bomber crew, including Australian (Flynn) and American (Reagan), is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.

Meet the Wildcat

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

Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, let their hair down and went “screwball” in the Universal comedy-mystery Meet the Wildcat. Bellamy plays a New York gumshoe on the trail of an art thief. His investigation is confounded by the presence of snoopy girl reporter Lindsay.

That Mothers Might Live

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

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis’ observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur’s research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).