Alan Rafkin – MRQE

Nobody’s Perfect

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship’s petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.

How to Frame a Figg

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

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he’ll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.

Angel in My Pocket

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

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

The Shakiest Gun in the West

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

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope “Bad Penny” Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary “Doc the Haywood” after he guns down “Arnold the Kid”.

Ride to Hangman’s Tree

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

Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

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

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero…until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Ski Party

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

Remember the beach movies of the sixties? They’re back! Well, not quite, but since Avalon, Hickman, and even Funicello appear in this one, it sure feels right. This time, though, read snow instead of sand and you got it. Ski lodge, to be precise, and though the plot is somewhat inane, with the boys cross-dressing to discover the secret of a friend’s success with the girls, it’s still a somewhat fun outing.