Clive Donner – MRQE

The Caretaker

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

Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston’s brother, Mick – a taunting, quasi-sadist – harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders…

The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV)

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

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy’s marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel’s plans to save the little Dauphin

To Catch a King (TV)

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

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.

The Thief of Baghdad (TV)

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

A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.

Alfred the Great (1969/I)

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

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.

A Christmas Carol (TV)

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

A bitter old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

Dead Man’s Folly (TV)

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

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an “expert”, a real murder occurs.

Spectre (TV)

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

Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian’s debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.

Oliver Twist (1982/I) (TV)

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

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

Rogue Male (TV)

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

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.