Maurice Tourneur – MRQE

The Life Line

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right to his part of his half brother Phillip Royston’s country estate, Cragsnest. When he saves Ruth Heckett, the daughter of his friend Joe, a London bird shop owner and burglar, from a theater fire, however, he changes his mind and marries her. As Ruth and Jack board a steamer for America to find witnesses to his parents’ wedding for proof of his inheritance, Joe’s partner Bos gives Ruth a Bible that he stole from Cragsnest, as a present.

A Doll’s House

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

Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father’s name and comes to grief therefore is retained.

The Blue Bird

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

Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with the souls of a Dog and Cat, as well as of Fire, Water, Bread, Light, and other presumably inanimate things. The troupe thus sets off to find the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.

The Christian

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

Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory’s friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John….

The Whip

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

The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.

Katia

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

In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.

Cécile est morte!

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.

La Main du diable

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

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.

Aloma of the South Seas

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

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Le Patriote

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

The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.