George W. Hill – MRQE

The Barrier

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

Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter — and revenge.

Clear All Wires!

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.

Hell Divers

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

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

The Secret Six

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

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

Min and Bill

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

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

The Flying Fleet

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

Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.

Tell It to the Marines

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

U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns’s lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O’Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O’Hara’s feelings and is attracted to the handsome ‘Skeet.’ But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord’s bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.

The Limited Mail

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

Bob Wilson, who becomes a tramp after being jilted by his fiancée, prevents the Limited Mail from being wrecked during a mountain storm and becomes fast friends with Jim Fowler, a railway mail clerk. Jim gets Bob a job on the railroad, and Bob works himself up to the position of engineer on the Limited. Both of the men fall in love with Caroline Dale, but she prefers Bob.

Zander the Great

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

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him “Zander”. When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

The Midnight Express

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

Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack’s father becomes frustrated with his son’s wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack’s car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer’s pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.