Russell Waters – MRQE

The Wicker Man

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

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

I Could Go on Singing

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

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

Reach for Glory

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

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won’t end before they can fight in it.

Adventure in the Hopfields

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

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.

The Brave Don’t Cry

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

The Brave Don’t Cry aspires to the “feel” of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don’t Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.

Saturday Island

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

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during World War II, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe (Linda Darnell) and Marine Michael Dugan (Tab Hunter) find themselves stranded and soon enough, falling in love on an idyllic tropical island. But when British pilot William Peck (Donald Gray) crash-lands on their cozy little atoll, Dugan suddenly discovers he has a rival in love.

Mr. Denning Drives North

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.

Tell Me If It Hurts

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

A short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.