Elia Kazan – MRQE

Pinky

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

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been “passing” for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Boomerang!

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

In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron’s innocence. Based on a true story.

America, America

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

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family’s fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

The Arrangement

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

An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

Wild River

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

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man’s love affair with that woman’s widowed granddaughter.

Baby Doll

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

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll’s 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.

The Last Tycoon

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

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman all the while working himself to death.

Splendor in the Grass

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

A fragile Kansas girl’s unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town’s most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

A Face in the Crowd

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

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

East of Eden

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

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.