Sybil Thorndike – MRQE

Stage Fright

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

The Big Gamble

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

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.

Hand in Hand

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

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends “forever and ever and can’t be parted for never and never”. Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.

Shake Hands with the Devil

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

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O’Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization…under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has “shaken hands with the devil” and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Smiley Gets a Gun

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

The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others – all so he can earn a new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.

The Weak and the Wicked

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

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women’s prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women’s prison.

Gone to Earth

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

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.

Britannia Mews

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

Major Barbara

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

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father’s perspective.

To What Red Hell

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

‘Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.’ (British Film Catalogue)