Ward Bond – MRQE

Up the River

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

Daily life at men and women’s prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend’s ex-partner-in-crime.

Over the Wall

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

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

That’s My Boy

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

Prison Break

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

Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.

Virtue

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

Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.

Riding High

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

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

The Time of Your Life

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

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick’s, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.

Thunderbirds

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

An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.

Dakota

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

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire… trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the “River Bird’, Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender’s henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber’s dinghy..

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

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

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmates sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the citys underworld and meets a powerful tycoons whimsical daughter.