William Wyler – MRQE

Wuthering Heights

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley’s sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they’re happy — until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

A House Divided

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

A New England fisherman’s second wife prefers his son.

The Collector

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend – in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.

Glamour

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

Carrie

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

Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory workthat is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

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

Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.

Funny Girl

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

The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her second husband, Nick Arnstein.

How to Steal a Million

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

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father’s art forgeries.

The Children’s Hour

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

A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship.

The Shakedown

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

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.