Roy William Neill – MRQE

The Viking

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.

The Spider Woman

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

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on “The Sign of Four” and the short stories “The Dying Detective”, “The Final Problem”, “The Speckled Band” and “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”.

Percy

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

Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

That’s My Boy

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

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

The Avenger

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

Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.

Yes or No

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

Black Angel

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A falsely convicted man’s wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin’s wife.

Free and Equal

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This melodrama was made nine or ten years before its release, and one has to wonder why it was released at all. In the first three decades of the 1900s, the art of film was growing by leaps and bounds, so both the production and the exaggerated acting were very dated by 1925. The subject matter — whether African-Americans could function in white society — was not a popular one. Nowadays, the plot would make any but the most hardcore racist cringe. Northerner Judge Lowell (Charles K. French) believes that Negroes are the equals of whites and sets out to prove it by hiring an octoroon (Jack Richardson) as his secretary (apparently, trying to bring in a full-blooded African-American was beyond the sensibilities of 1910s Caucasians). The secretary turns out to be a rotten human being — he commits bigamy by secretly marrying the judge’s daughter (Gloria Hope), and then kills the maid. Judge Lowell comes to regret his idea, and the octoroon pays for his dastardly deeds.

The Menace

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

Blind Date

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

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what’s best for her.