Nicholas Ray – MRQE

Born to Be Bad

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

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She’ll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she’s evil, but loves her anyway.

We Can’t Go Home Again

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

Nicholas Ray plays himself, acting as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students at Binghamton.

Party Girl

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

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It’s not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there’s more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

55 Days at Peking

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

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

King of Kings

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

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

The Savage Innocents

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

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Bitter Victory

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

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand’s wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

The True Story of Jesse James

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

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother’s house, Jesse plans one more great raid — on a Minnesota bank.

Bigger Than Life

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

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Hot Blood

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Stephen Torino (Wilde), who is tricked by his brother Marco (Adler) into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash (Russell). Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.