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(1931) Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke.  This great two-disc set features the rare English-language UK edition, which includes additional footage actually shot in the UK and added to the film.  And yes…Lorre did dub his own voice for the English version.  Also included in this two-disc set is the original German language edition with brand new English subtitles...

(1949) Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, John Le Mesurier, Ian Fleming, directed by John Gilling. Riscoe charms everyone’s socks off in this smooth murder thriller. She takes in a new boa

(1965) Heinz Drache, Barbara Rutting, Klaus Kinski, Brigitte Horney, Margot Trooger, Eddi arent. The mad killer, “The Ringer” (aka “Der Hexer”) returns to England. This time to punish criminals who have committed murders under...

(1945) Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Jacques Pills, Jean Davy, Louis Salou, Ginette Baudin.  This isn’t a good movie, it’s a great movie—one of the best mysteries we’ve released in a long, long time. Blier is the rookie detective assigned to the murder-by-strangling cases of two young women.  The only clue he has is that the killer is always heard softly singing a current hit tune before he strikes...

(1937, Victory) Herman Brix, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue. Joan steals a precious gem from a couple of loan sharks. Herman gets tangled up in her messy situation. A fun cheapie from Sam Katzman. 16mm.

(1961) Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray, Franca Valeri. There are seven key witnesses in this GREAT murder thriller that has a touch of wit attached to it. An old woman is

(1939, Paramount) John Howard, George Zucco, Hearther Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive. Drummond hunts for madman Zucco who throws the police into a panic as he wreaks destruction with a death ray. A terrific "B" film. From 16mm.

THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY (1939) Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden, Anthony Bushnell.  A star English football player collapses right on the field during a big game.  When the dust settles, it’s discovered that the player was murdered!  But how…and by who?  Enter a snappy but serious police inspector played brilliantly by Banks...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large illustrated editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Art Studio Murders” by master mystery writer, Edward Ronns. The second novel is “The Case of Jenny Brice” by a very well-known mystery writer of the early twentieth century, Mary Roberts Rinehart. 

(1967) Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Ida Galli, Peter Dane. Silva excels in this remarkable, surreal thriller. Silva is set to be executed at the beginning of the film. Yet, later we see him again as a y

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first novel is steamy, hardboiled tale, “The Baby Doll Murders” by James O. Causey.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “Death Hitches a Ride” by another well-known mystery writer, Martin L. Weiss.  

(1964) Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Gert Frobe, Enrico Salerno, Wolfgang Preiss, Fernando Rey.  This hip film has a great cast.  It's a caper movie with a touch of wit.  JP plays a thief trying to smuggle gold from Barcelona to Beirut.  Helping him is the beautiful, but mysterious Seberg. 

(1934, Mayfair) Buster Crabbe, Ruth Hall, Ralph Lewis. Buster is an unemployed reporter who gets a big break (and a job) when he rescues the daughter of a big newspaper publisher. Buster soon discovers a

(1936, Victory) Regis Toomey, Sheila Terry, Molly O’Day, Robert Warwick, Fuzzy Knight. Terry’s brother is framed by gangsters for a crime he didn’t commit. Toomey comes to her aid and tries to bring the r

(1946, Fox) William Gargan, Carole Landis, Richard Crane, John Ireland, Mary Anderson. A car rolls up to a police station where it dumps the murdered body of a shady private detective. Landis, who’s

(1932, Mayfair) Eddie Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Robert Elliott, Ann Christy, George Chesebro. After being spurned, the wife of a powerful DA murders her illicit lover in cold blood. Her son takes the

(1935, Mascot) Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sid Blackmer. A great Mascot B film! A tough cop gets a big-time gangster thrown in jail, only to have his lawyer girlfriend get the crook out of the sla

(1934) Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis, John Stuart, Jeanne Stuart.  This is a very engaging murder drama.  Mary Ellis is a proper British wife who’s fallen under the spell of a suave yet unscrupulous Egyptian, wonderfully portrayed by Veidt.  Desiring to be free of the man she no longer loves, Ellis and Veidt plot to slowly poison her husband...

(1936, Chesterfield) Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Warner Richmond, Theodore Von Eltz. This is the kind of movie Chesterfield did best, an old-fashioned crime caper. After crooks knock over a...

(1933) John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Mickey Rooney, Natalie Moorhead, J. Carrol Naish. An upcoming prizefighter is expected to throw a championship fight. He may have different ideas, though. This leads

(1961) George Sanders, Pascal Bressy, Marie-Claude Breton, Robert Dalban. An upper crust murder mystery. The murder victim was a scheming photographer, who was also a blackmailer. His target had be

(1963, Anamorphic English Edition) Adrian Hoven, Ann Smyrner, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Vogel, Paul Dahlke, Gunter Meisner, Marianne Schönauer.  A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs.  They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead.  The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

(1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott, Walter Crisham. One great gangster film!  Travers is a gorgeous society dame who wants to get away from it all.  She’s kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who, along with his Ma-Barkerish mother, owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. 

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 470 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Black Gang” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by H. C. “Sapper” McNeile. Bulldog Drummond Returns! This double novel’s second tale features another great fictional detective in Louis Joseph Vance’s “Alias the Lone Wolf.”

(1947) Michael Medwin, Frank Hawkins, Winifred Melville, Jane Arden, Moyra O'Connell, Sid James.  A young British boy’s dad is convicted of murder and hanged.  The boy lands in a boarding school where he’s horribly bullied and ends up running away...

(1943, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Charles Middleton, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass. Zucco is the manager of a mysterious inn filled with terror and murder...

THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Vincent Ball.  This B-film crime-quickie has minor elements of both horror and sci-fi.  Hanley is an effervescent reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen a motorcycle near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...?  

(1959) Sabine Bethmann, Joachim Hansen, Rudolf Forster, Tilla Durieux. The daughter of a wealthy businessman has an affair with a married man and gets pregnant. The two scheme to hire an actor to mar

(1961) Peter Van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Eva Bartok, Claus Holm, Werner Peters.  Van Eyck is a prosecuting attorney who loses a murder case, although he’s certain the accused man was guilty of his wife’s murder.  Obsessed with the case, he follows up on his own and stumbles into a whole torrent of twists...

(1957) Mark Miller, Anita Thallaug, Lars Ekborg, Norma Sjoholm, Birgitta Ander. This is a really cool thriller filled with all kinds of neato stuff--a masterpiece of drive-in celluloid.  An American reporter heads to Sweden to do a feature story on Swedish nightlife.  After falling for a beautiful, morphine-addicted nightclub singer, he decides to do an expose on the rampant practice of corrupt showbiz managers who keep their showgirls on drugs to insure their services...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Mystery-crime writer Richard Deming paints a tale of wildly escalating corruption and atrocities in “Body for Sale.”  Blackmail, Sex, and Murder… Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled over the means to an end, as the end was worth grabbing for—even if his common sense told him NO!  So when he found out he was going to be fired, he played a blackmail card—a card that delivered...