Robert Gordon – MRQE

Newport & the Great Folk Dream

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Powerful music leaps from the air and can change the actual world. At the Newport Folk Festivals in the early 1960s, the molecules were electric with rebellion and democracy, with anger and hope. Musicians drove that change Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger but also banjo players from coal country, remote Georgia gospel artists, rural Canadian fishermen, and the opportunities created for the urban kids to mingle with those theyd not ordinarily encounter.

American Masters:: Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied (TVE)

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

Filmmaker Robert Gordon captures the life of fascinating blues artist Muddy Waters. Credited with inventing the electric blues, Waters left an indelible mark on both his contemporaries and the generations of musicians that followed him. This documentary includes numerous film clips and interviews with big-name musicians, such as Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones’s Keith Richards and blues man Buddy Guy.

Revenge of the Red Baron

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Red Baron returns in a toy plane to kill the former World War I ace that shot him down.

Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

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

Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother’s tribe.

Black Zoo

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

A deranged animal lover unleashes his toothy pets on anyone who stands in his way. Obsessed with big cats the owner of a private Los Angeles zoo is a member of a cult called the true believers, believing beasts and humans are soul mates and that animal souls can be transferred to one another. His wife is locked in a miserable marriage with this human hater. Also living with them is a mute son from the zoo owners first marriage. It’s almost as if he is suppressing his latent homosexuality by madly channelling all his being into his private zoo, with the big cats (all with male names like King and Baron) as surrogate lovers.

Damn Citizen

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

Louisiana’s governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.

It Came from Beneath the Sea

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

A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

The Joe Louis Story

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

The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years–longer than any other boxer in history–and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.

Thunder in the Pines

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

Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.