George Schaefer – MRQE

Laura Lansing Slept Here (TV)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With a glittering cast that includes Katharine Hepburn and Karen Austin in lead roles, Laura Lansing Slept Here is a humorous family movie. Hepburn plays Laura Lansing, a novelist who undergoes an identity crisis as, despite her fame and fortune, she feels something is missing from her life. Entering into a quest to return a degree of normalcy to her life, Lansing’s attempts provide many comedic moments, as well as a salient lesson for the famous author.

Hallmark Hall of Fame:: A Doll’s House (TVE)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wealthy woman’s attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (TV)

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

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.

One Touch of Venus (TV)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill’s successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘The Last of the Belles’ (TV)

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

F. Scott (Richard Chamberlain) and Zelda Fitzgerald (Blythe Danner) return from Europe emotionally and financially depleted. Despite being 30, Zelda develops a fixation on becoming a ballerina, while Scott, bereft of ideas, drinks and carouses. Eventually he decides to write a fictional account of how he met Zelda while stationed in the Deep South during World War I. As the story progresses, Scott hopes the book will somehow prove to be the thing that resuscitates his ailing marriage.

In This House of Brede (TV)

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

Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in shock over her departure from his life. When Philippa arrives at Brede, a cloistered Benedictine monastery, the abbess who was responsible for convincing her to enter this vocation suddenly dies. Her successor is Catherine, a sensitive leader who’s the first to tell the newcomer to the community that all nuns are to love without a preference for one over another. This becomes very difficult when Joanna, a young nun, singles Sister Philippa out and grows very attached to her.

Children in the Crossfire (TV)

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

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In “Children in the Crossfire” four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.

Generation

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

Newlyweds shock the bride’s father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.

Pendulum

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews’ wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.

An Enemy of the People

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

A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town’s reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.