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“M” Special English Language 2-Disc Edition
(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...
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A DAME CALLED MURDER
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another murder mystery, “A Dame Called Murder,” is by veteran whodunit author, Milton Ozak
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A MATTER OF MURDER
(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
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AGAIN, THE RINGER—Windowboxed Widescreen Edition
(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...
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ALONE IN THE NIGHT
(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...
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AMATEUR CROOK
(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.
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AND SUDDENLY IT'S MURDER
(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
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ARREST BULLDOG DRUMMOND
(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.
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ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY, THE
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...
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ART STUDIO MURDERS, THE, & THE CASE OF JENNIE BRICE
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.
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ASSASSINATION
(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
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BABY DOLL MURDER, THE, & DEATH HITCHES A RIDE
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.
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BACKFIRE, Special Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(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.
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BADGE OF HONOR
(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
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BARRIER OF THE LAW
(1954) Rossano Brazzi, Lea Padovani, Jacques Sernas, Maria Frau. This is a top Italian crime thriller with a great cast. The plot concerns an undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of clever criminals
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BARS OF HATE
(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
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BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS
(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
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BEHIND STONE WALLS
(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
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BEHIND THE GREEN LIGHTS
(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
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BELLA DONNA
(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...
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BELOW THE DEADLINE (1936)
(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...
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BIG CHANCE, THE
(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
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BILLIONAIRE, THE
(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
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BLACK COBRA, THE
(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...
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BLACK DICE
(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.
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BLACK GANG, THE, & ALIAS THE LONE WOLF
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.”
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BLACK MEMORY
(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...
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BLACK RAVEN, THE
(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...
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BLACK RIDER, THE
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...?
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BLACK TRIANGLE
(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
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BLIND JUSTICE
(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...
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BLONDE IN BONDAGE
(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...
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BLOOD IN THE STREETS
(1973) Fabio Testi, Oliver Reed, Paola Pitagora, Agostina Belli. This is a terrific Euro-thriller with Testi and Reed doing a great job. The wife of an Italian official is kidnapped. For her safe r
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BODY FEVER
(1970) Ray Dennis Steckler, Carolyn Brandt, Bernard Fein. A cool crime movie set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and hookers. The leader of a dope ring is after the woman who ripped him
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BODY FOR SALE
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...
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BOMB IN THE HIGH STREET
(1961) Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen. A very enjoyable British programmer. Film opens with a Nazi WW2 bomb being found in an English Town. A bomb squad is eventually called in...
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BOND OF FEAR
(1958) Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, John Colicos. Similar to the THE HITCH-HIKER. A family leaves on vacation, a small trailer in tow. They soon discover a gun-wielding killer in the trailer! He h
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BORDERLINE
(1950, Universal) Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, and Morris Ankrum. Taut thriller about customs G-men who are out to nail a nefarious drug-smuggler. Two different agents are sent in, b
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BORN TO FIGHT
(1936) Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Jack LaRue, Frances Grant. Mastered from a beautiful 16mm original print. Kane, a boxer, defends himself when confronted by a mobster for not taking a dive. The
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BORROWED HERO*
(1941 Monogram) - Alan Baxter, Florence Rice, John Hamilton, Constance Worth. Baxter goes from a struggling young lawyer to a crusading assistant DA in this Monogram crime film. He and Rice try to expose c
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BREAKDOWN
(1952) Anne Richards, Willian Bishop, Anne Gwynne, Sheldon Leonard. A crippled fight manager turns his paroled, convict brother into a 'good' fighter by fixing his fights. From 16mm.
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BREAKFAST WITH THE DEAD
(1964, aka MURDER BY PROXY) Wolfgang Preiss, Sonja Ziemann, Robert Graf, Ivan Desny. The plot of this German-made suspense film concerns the downfall of a powerful D.A., well-played by Wolfgang (Dr.
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BRIGHTHAVEN EXPRESS
(1952) John Bentley, Marsha Hunt, Valentine Dyall, Arthur Hill, Shelagh Frazier, June Elvin, Michael Golden. This movie starts out with a bang as a man with a briefcase leaves a British pub. He’s followed by a couple of thugs out into the dreary night, one of whom knifes him in the back...
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BROKEN HORSESHOE, THE*
(1953) Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke, Hugh Kelly, Janet Butler. Beatty stars as a doctor who finds himself mixed up with a drug smuggling racket. When things are looking their grimmest
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND AT BAY*
(1937) John Lodge, Victor Jory, Dorothy Mackaill, Hugh Miller. In this series entry, we find Drummond up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft. Lodge is good in the title
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND COMES BACK*
(1937) John Howard, John Barrymore, Louise Campbell, J. Carrol Naish. Audio recordings are the only clues as Drummond hunts down his fiancee’s kidnappers. Decent BD entry. Howard still didn’t quite
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAPES*
(1937, Paramount) Ray Milland, Sir Guy Standing. Hugh falls for a beautiful woman he's been hired to protect against spies. Milland's only appearance as Drummond. This was the first of eight Paramou
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA*
(1938, Paramount) John Howard, J. Carroll Naish. Probably the best Drummond film since Ronald Coleman essayed the role in 1929, and again in 1934. In spite of its "B" limitations this is an excellen
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BRIDE
(1939, Paramount) John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, E.E. Clive, Reginal Denny. A sparkling entry in the Paramount series as Hugh finds himself in Europe pursuing a bank robber. Will he ever get married? Great action and good fun in what proved to be the last entry of the Paramount series...
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S PERIL*
(1938) John Howard, John Barrymore, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny. Terrific excitement as a robbery and murder interrupt Hugh's pre-wedding party. Watch out for bad guys trying to steal synthetic diamonds...
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S REVENGE
(1937, Paramount) John Howard, John Barrymore. A secret formula has been stolen and a scientist horribly murdered. Hugh Drummond tries to track down the gang of spies responsible in this slick B thr
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BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S SECRET POLICE*
(1939, Paramount) John Howard, H.B. Warner, Heather Anger, Leo G. Carroll, E.E. Clive, Reginal Denny. This comes closer to being a horror film than any of the other Drummond entries. Hidden treasure
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BULLDOG JACK
(1935) Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Atholl Fleming. Master sleuth Bulldog Drummond pulls into a gas station where his car is sabotaged by crooks. Minutes later he crashes into Hulbert’s vehicle. In the hospital, the injured Drummond asks Hulbert to temporarily masquerade as him...
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CAGED FURY*
(1948) Buster Crabbe, Richard Denning, Sheila Ryan, Mary Hughes. In a change of pace role, Buster is excellent as a homicidal maniac. He manages to get hired on with a circus where he uses lions to
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CALLING PAUL TEMPLE
(1948) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer. In this snappy mystery, Temple delves into the murder of several women, all of whom were patients of a strange, sinister doctor
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CANARY MURDER CASE, THE
(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.” She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...
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CANDLES AT NINE
(1944) Jesse Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann. An enjoyable, sometimes creepy British mystery thriller. Much of the action is centered about a spooky estate where a singer is forced to spend the night in order to...
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CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY
(1939, Upgraded 11/16/21) Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer, George Merritt, Ronald Shiner. This is a fine old dark house thriller with all the usual elements: The head of an old English family seems to have some dread secret. His servants even seem furtive in nature. Then there's the doctor whose...
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CASE OF THE MISSING HEIRESS*
(1949) Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang, Philip Leaver, Hugh Griffith, Peter Drury. Almost a horror film. An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's
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CAT & MOUSE
CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders. Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...
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CAT 'O NINE TAILS—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1971) James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov. Impressive later Wallace thriller with a couple of imported American actors. Malden is a blind, retired journalist who overhears a cryptic conversation in front of a medical facility. That night a company guard is slain...
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CAUSE FOR ALARM*
(1951) Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan. A man plots to turn his wife into a murderess. Loretta is great in this well made mystery. Watch for the fantastic twist ending in this underrated film. Recom
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CHASE, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic! Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...
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CHASE, THE—Original Full Screen Edition
(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic! Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...
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CHESTERFIELD/INVINCIBLE, Vol. 5
IN THE MONEY (1933) Skeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson; MURDER ON THE CAMPUS (1934) Charles Starrett, Edward Van Sloan; ELLIS ISLAND (1936) Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon; GIRL WHO CAME BACK (1935) Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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CHESTERFIELD/INVINCIBLE, Vol. 6
THE LADY FROM NOWHERE (1931) Alice Day, John Holland; TWIN HUSBANDS (1933) John Miljan; SONS OF STEEL (1934) Charles Starrett, Polly Ann Young. RED LIGHTS AHEAD (1936) Andy Clyde. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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CIRCLE OF DANGER*
(1951) Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Hugh Sinclair. Ray’s brother is killed while on a special mission during WW2, the mission’s only casualty. This appears very strange to Ray, so after the war, he decides t
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COFFIN FROM HONG KONG, A—Anamorphic Widescreen
(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Elga Anderson, Ralf Wolter, Sabine Sesselmann. Drache is a suave private eye. He’ss dumped into the middle of a murder mystery when a woman is shot dead in his office with his own gun...
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COLONEL MARCH INVESTIGATES
(1953) Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sheila Burrell, Richard Wattis, Joan Sims. In this enjoyable anthology of three episodes of Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Karloff plays the smooth-talking title character. He’s faced with three seemingly weird cases...
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COMMODORE PICTURES, Vol. 1
A SCREAM IN THE NIGHT (1935) Lon Chaney, Zara Tazil; SOCIAL ERROR (1935) David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger; SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX (1935) Lon Chaney, Jack Mulhall; GHOST TOWN (1936) Harry Carey. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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CONFESS DR. CORDA*
(1961) Hardy Kruger, Elizabeth Muller. A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself...
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CONSPIRACY
(1930) Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor. A woman and her assistant D.A. brother are battling against a clever gang of dope dealers. When the woman kills the gang leader in self-defense, she ends
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CRIME INC.*
(1945, PRC) Lionel Atwill, Leo Carillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Shannon. A pretty good cast considering this is just a PRC quickie, not a bad movie either. A crime reporter exposes
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CROOKED CIRCLE, THE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “The Crooked Circle” is a gritty tale of suicide and murder; authored by crime/mystery novelist Manning Lee Stokes. A hundred grand could tempt anyone. Private investigator Steve Paget had always thought he would do anything for money, but nothing quite as vile and low-down as Jefferson Torrance’s proposition had ever been offered to him before...
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CROOKED CITY, THE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle. “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle” That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...
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CROSS-UP
CROSS-UP (1958) Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely, Donald Stewart. On the first night of his London assignment, news agency reporter Parks becomes heavily involved with a mysterious woman (Daniely). The affair ends when she is shot as they grapple for a gun she has pulled. But this is only the beginning of Parks’ troubles, especially considering the dead woman worked for a criminal organization...
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CROW HOLLOW
(1952) Donald Houston, Nora Nicholson. Eerie thriller about a sinister aunt who tries to secure an inheritance by poisoning her nephew's wife. Story takes place in a creepy old mansion.
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CRUSADER, THE*
(1932, Majestic) H.B. Warner, Evelyn Brent, Lew Cody, Ned Sparks, Walter Byron. Sparks plays a sleazy reporter out to smear the local DA. Things get hot when the DA’s wife becomes the prime suspect after
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CURSE OF THE HIDDEN VAULT—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1964, Updated 10/25/21) Harold Lieb, Judith Dornys, Rudolf Forster, Werner Peters, Klaus Kinski, Vera Tschechowa, Eddi Arent. The aged owner of an old gambling casino dies, making a young girl heir to his amassed fortune that lies hidden in a secret tomb. Shady underworld members become the victims of both greed and the dread secret of the...
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D.O.A.*
(1949, United Artists) Edmund O'Brien, Pamela Britton. The now legendary film noir story about a man who is given slow poison. He knows he's dying and sets out to track down his own murderer. Film begins with the classic
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DANCING WITH CRIME
DANCING WITH CRIME (1947) Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, John Warwick, Garry Marsh. Attenborough plays a London cab driver who gets in the snares of a criminal gang after he refuses to join them. This causes a lot of problems for Attenborough, whose pal is one of the gang members. Attenborough then sets out to expose the gang and...
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DANGEROUS CHARTER*
(1962) Chris Warfield, Sally Fraser, Chick Chandler. The co-owners of a small fishing boat discover a deserted luxury yacht adrift at sea with a corpse on board. They smile on their good fate though and the
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DANGEROUS LADY & ONE HOUR LATE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Dangerous Lady” by Octavus Roy Cohen. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “One Hour Late” by another well-known mystery writer, William O’Farrell.
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DANGEROUS LADY*
(1941, PRC, aka BEWARE THE LADY) Neil Hamilton, June Storey, Evelyn Brent, Douglas Fowley. Basically a PRC variation on the Thin Man. A detective-lawyer team (also married) tries to clear a female cl
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DAREDEVIL, THE
(1972) George Montgomery, Terry Moore, Gay Perkins, Cyril Poiter, Bill Kelly. This is a wonderful, albeit forgotten, southern drive-in thriller. Montgomery, in one of his last starring roles, plays a down and out race car driver with a passion for speed. With his career in shambles, he ends up driving for a drug ring because there’s no police car that can catch him.
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DATE WITH DISASTER
(1957) starring Tom Drake, Shirly Eaton, Robert Robinson, Maurice Kaufmann. The film's setting is at an auto dealership where a couple of shiftless employees are conspiring with a tough gangster-type to rob the garage. Things get out of hand when one of the crooks is murdered and Drake is implicated in the crime...
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DAUGHTER OF THE TONG*
(1939, Metropolitan) Grant Withers, Evelyn Brent, Dorothy Short, Dave O’Brien, Richard Loo. We recently upgraded this poverty row thriller from a nice old 16mm print. Much better quality than most of the video copies that you find in the five dollar bins. Lots of thrills in this slick mystery about a crackerjack detective, Withers, who is pitted against a femal
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DAWN EXPRESS*
(1942, PRC) Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel. A not bad PRC thriller about foreign agents attempting to steal a powerful explosives formula. Hold on to your seats because this movie ends with a real bang. From a nic
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DEAD ONE IN THE THAMES RIVER, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1971, Upgraded 11/1/21) Hansjorg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Gunther Stoll. When an Australian woman arrives in London, she discovers her sister is involved with a ruthess heroin smuggling gang. Complicating matters is that the gang itself is being targeted by an unknown assailant who shoots his victims dead with a bullet in the head...
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DEAD WEIGHT
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. This hard-nosed tale, “Dead Weight,” was penned by well-known mystery-crime writer, Frank Kane.
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DEADLY PICK-UP, THE & KILLER TAKE ALL!
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Deadly Pick-up” by Milton K. Ozaki. The second novel is “Killer Take All!” by another fine mystery writer, James O. Causey. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.
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DEADLY SWEET—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco. One of the hippest, most stylish films of the ‘60s—no exaggeration. Jean-Louis finds the corpse of a blackmailing nightclub manager in his office—blood on the floor. In the room is Ewa, who claims innocence, even though her deceased father was the blackmail victim. Together they go...
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DEATH FALLS LIGHTLY—Widescreen
(1972) Stelio Candelli, Patrizia Viotti, Veronika Korosec, Rossella Bergamonti, Tom Felleghy. A man finds his wife brutally murdered. He has no alibi so is instructed by his lawyer to go into hiding in an old, abandoned hotel. Strange occurrences start happening immediately, including the discovery of a woman with her throat cut! The hotel setting of this film is in some ways reminiscent of The Shining...
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DEATH GOES TO SCHOOL
(1953) Gordon Jackson, Barbara Murray, Pamela Alan, Jane Aird, Sam Kyd. The setting is an all-girls school. A teacher is found lying in a wooded area next to the school—choked to death with a scarf. Murray, one of the first on the scene, is shocked to find that the scarf is hers!...
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DEATH HAUNTS MONICA
DEATH HAUNTS MONICA (1976) Nadiuska, Arturo Fernández, Jean Sorel, Karin Schubert, Damian Velasco. This is a pretty good Spanish Giallo complete with good guys in trench coasts and mysterious killers. A beautiful, wealthy lady is implicated in a series of horrible murders. She ends up running the gauntlet of numerous plot twists and subplots...
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DEATH KISS, THE
(1932, World Wide, Upgraded 12/12/21) David Manners, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Adrienne Ames, Vince Barnett. A big time movie star is shot dead (the gun was supposed to have blanks) right in front of the cameras after receiving an on screen kiss. Van Sloan is the director who continues to give directions to the corpse, thinking all along his actor is simply lying down on the job! Manners is the studio writer who...
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DEATH ON THE SET
(1935) Henry Kendall, Eve Gray, Jeanne Stuart, Garry Marsh, Wally Patch. A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangster’s place, he then causes an actress to...
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DEATH ROW WOMAN—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1960) Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata. A wealthy businessman tries to orchestrate a marriage between his elder daughter and a young up-and-comer who he sees as a good candidate to someday to take over his business. What dad doesn’t know, though, is that his daughter not only loves another man, but she’s also pregnant with child! When daddy ends up dead...
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DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS
(1971) Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Carlo Gentili.. An infamous jewel thief ends up slashed to death on a train by an unknown killer. His daughter, who’s a beautiful Paris nightclub sta
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DECOY, THE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “The Decoy” is a gritty murder tale written by mystery-crime novelist, Edward Ronns. He was set up to take the fall. Someone was pulling the strings of corruption in Sea City, and they had big plans for Ben Sherman, which would leave the now disgraced lawyer left holding the bag on a phony bribery charge...
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DESIGNATED VICTIM, THE, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
THE DESIGNATED VICTIM—Widescreen (1971) Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Marisa Bartoli. An oddball count becomes friends with a frustrated businessman. Together they work out a scheme in which the count will bump off the businessman’s loveless wife, while the businessman will rub out the Count’s unpleasant brother...
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DETOUR—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1945, PRC) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Tim Ryan, Edmund MacDonald. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder and crime...
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DETOUR—Original Full Screen Edition
(1945, Upgraded 3/3/21) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder. Savage is priceless as the female psycho who...
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DEVIL IN SILK—Special Two-Disc Edition
(1956) Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen. Palmer was 42 and drop dead gorgeous when she made this film. Her feminine appeal is electric—and it’s supposed to be. She lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her—everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her. She is one wicked dame—shades of Play Misty for Me...
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DEVIL PLAYS, THE
THE DEVIL PLAYS (1931) Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Christy. This quickie was distributed by the king of poverty row murder mysteries, Chesterfield Pictures. In a nutshell, the film deals with a murder mystery that takes place over one long weekend at an expensive mansion...
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DEVIL'S CARGO*
(1948) John Calvert, Lyle Talbot, Rochelle Hudson. "The Falcon" saves the life of an innocent man imprisoned on murder charges and finds the real murderer. A must for all fans of the series. From 16mm.
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DEVIL'S DAUGHTER
(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller. This French crime-drama is simply brilliant. Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police. He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child. The car crashes and...
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DEVIL'S FLUTE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1979) Toshiyuki Nishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruko Wanibuchi, Tomoko Saitô. This is a really well-made Japanese “locked room” murder mystery set in the 1930s. The famous Nipponese detective Kindaichi is called in to investigate a number of horrible slayings. His investigations soon point the finger at members of a wealthy family—a family that, as it turns out, has many dark secrets to hide...
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DEVIL'S ISLAND LOVERS —Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar, Howard Vernon. A dying politician summons an attorney to his death bed to reveal that two imprisoned lovers, who were earlier convicted of murder, are actually...
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DIAGNOSIS: MURDER
(1975) Christopher Lee, Judy Geeson, Jon Finch, Tony Beckley. This is a decidedly underrated murder mystery. The film opens with a woman being seemingly gunned down by an unknown assassin. Lee, who
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DIARY OF AN EROTIC MURDERESS*
(1975, aka DIARY OF A MURDERESS) Marisa Mell, Richard Conte, Anthony Steffen. Almost a horror film. A femme fatale worms her way into the mansion of a millionaire played by Conte. After disposing o
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DICK TRACY COLLECTION, THE
(1945-1948) Morgan Conway, Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Anne Jeffries, Lyle Latell, Anne Gwynne. Here’s the entire RKO Tracy collection—four movies on two discs, all in great video quality. You get: DICK TRACY (1945); DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL (1946); DICK TRACY’S DILEMMA; and DICK TRACY VS. GRUESOME (1947)...
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DINNER AT THE RITZ*
(1937) David Niven, Annabella, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent, Francis L. Sullivan. Niven is a suave government agent who takes under his wing the carefree daughter of a recently murdered financier. The t
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DO YOU KNOW THIS VOICE?*
(1964) Dan Duryea, Gwen Watford, Isa Miranda. A great murder mystery. The only clue to a mad killer's identity is his shoes! The crime's only witness saw them while she was bent over picking something up.
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DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS, THE (1962) Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1962, Updated 10/25/21) Heinz Drach, Sabine Sesselmann, Eddi Arent, Pinkas Braun, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber. This terrific Wallace chiller is one of the better in the series. A beautiful woman arrives at a mysterious mansion. Little does she realize there's a psycho afoot who has built his own torture chamber, which is overstocked with helpless victims. The killer plans...
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DOUBLE CONFESSION
(1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William. Hartnell. Top British noir! After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover.
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DOUBLE CROSS
(1941, PRC) Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, John Miljan, Wynne Gibson. Here’s a PRC crime film that hasn’t been around that much. Gibson guns down a cop who’s raiding her boss Miljan’s gambling joint. Her boyfriend, also a cop, grabs the gun but...
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DOUBLE EXPOSURE
DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1953) John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, dir. by John Gilling. This is a nifty little crime film about a photograph that catches what is deemed to be a suicide, only—you guessed it—it’s not really a suicide, but murder! Dant! Dant! Dah! And of course, the photographer soon discovers she’s being stalked by the killer...
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DOUBLE FACE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1969) Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Gunther Stoll, Christiane Kruger, Syd Chaplin. Kinski is actually the good guy in this rare Wallace-style Constantin thriller. His lesbian wife dies. She may or may not have been murdered. It’s a real shock though, when he sees her in a porno film made after the time of her supposed death...
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DOVE, THE, & THE GLASS LADDER
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Dove” by top-of-the-line veteran mystery writer Milton K. Ozaki. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “The Glass Ladder” by well-known sci-fi and mystery writer, Paul W. Fairman.
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DRAG-NET, THE*
(1936) Rod La Roque, Marian Nixon, Betty Compson, Jack Adair. An intriguing crime drama produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Rod is a playboy who takes a job as an assistant D.A. He then finds himself
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #142
HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE (1968) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That’s when bodies start
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #153
LABYRINTH (1959) Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. Labyrinth is a bizarre, brilliant film about a group of mental misfits in an out-of-this-world sanatorium... PLUS: AND THE WILD, WILD WOMEN (1960) Anna Magnani, Giulieta Masina. A frightened girl is sent to prison and exposed to prison culture...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #174
BLACK DICE (1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. Travers is a society dame who is kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. PLUS: NIGHTBEAT (1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Anne Crawford. In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force. Ross succeeds; Howard fails. Howard ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #189
HOT MONEY GIRL (1959) Eddie Constantine, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams. Constantine and Addams hatch a plot to recover a parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain. Their quest takes them to an old convent that’s now a German police barracks. Lots of tense moments as they break through security lines. PLUS: THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett. Mitchell is a tycoon whose son is kidnapped. There’s a huge ransom demand and the cops tell Mitchell to let them handle it. Mitchell, though, takes matters into his own hands. There’s a bit of sci-fi as Mitchell defends himself with a futuristic, hand-held flame projector...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #191
DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman. McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer. Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell and ends up hideously scarred from her jagged fingernails. Soon, young men turn up slain. PLUS: THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey, Eric Micklewood. A man obtains a dead monkey’s magical paw. He is bestowed three wishes. His first wish is to be debt-free. The wish is granted, but the price is his son’s life. The next wish is for the son to be returned to life—but the price is truly horrible...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #199
NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (1948) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. A top gangster film! Travers is a dazzling society dame who is kidnapped by two thugs. LaRue is superb as a mobster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and crooks. DOUBLE CONFESSION (1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre. Top British noir! After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #202
SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID (1962) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski. In a change of pace role, Lee plays a determined FBI agent sent in to help Scotland Yard track down a murdering blackmailer and help bust up their crime syndicate. PATTERN FOR PLUNDER (1962) Keenan Wynn, Ronald Howard, Mai Zetterling. What a cool B-movie this is. A group of WW2 vets seek a fortune in Nazi loot. Their search leads to an ancient castle nestled by a beach riddled with quicksand...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #210
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him south of the border. PLUS: BOMBAY WATERFRONT (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, he tries to unmask a killer known as “the Marquis.”
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #211
FEAR NO MORE (1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding. Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from L.A. to S.F. She soon finds herself accused of murder when a corpst is found in her compartment. PLUS: SHIP OF THE DEAD (1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid. A GREAT movie. A taut story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal. Buckholz is tops as a human castoff, in international limbo because of a lost passport.
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #214
THE DEVIL’S AGENT (1961, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Christopher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch. Former wartime Intel officer Van Eyck runs into his old pal, Lee, who takes him to his mansion for a fishing excursion. THE FACE OF THE FROG (1959, Anamorphic) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. An American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue is the mysterious seal of the White Frog...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #215
BLOOD DEMON (1967, Anamorphic) Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Carl Lange. Barker sentences Lee, the evil Count Regula, to death for slaying 12 virgins. Many years later, Lee returns from the dead to claim revenge on Barker’s son. THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1968, Anamorphic) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #219
M (1951) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie. A well-done remake of the ’31 Lorre classic. A mad killer is murdering small kids (this time in L.A.). The cops are combing the underworld, looking for the maniac. MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (1951) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes, Dora Bryan. Although this was officially a “Mother Riley” film, the real star here is Bela, who brings to his part an intensity not seen since his early ‘30s films. Worth it for him alone. Bela plots to dominate the world with an army of robots.
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #226
PSYCHO CIRCUS (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski. A botched heist ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer. The shooter is given the chance to give the boss his share... RAT FINK (1966. Anamorphic Widescreen) Schuyler Hayden, Hal Bokar, Warrene Ott, Judy Hughes. A great film! Hayden is a ruthless rock singer wannabe who takes what he wants, unafraid to stamp out anybody who gets in his way...
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DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #231
MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. The setting is London during the Jack the Ripper killing spree. Palance plays a reserved research pathologist who takes up lodgings in a sitting room with a spooky attic room for his "experiments...” THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries. This B-quickie has both sci-fi and horror elements. Hanley is a fierce young reporter who tackles the story of a hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights. Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...
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DUMMY MURDER CASE, THE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Veteran crime novelist Milton K. Ozaki tells a powerful tale of deception and murder in “The Dummy Murder Case.” It was a mock murder that led to...
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EASY MONEY
EASY MONEY (1936, Invincible) Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker, Noel Madison, Allen Vincent. An assistant DA botches an insurance racket trial against his brother. He resigns, but goes to work for a private firm in order to bring his brother to justice. When the brother is murdered, he sets out after the killers...
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ECHO MURDERS, THE
(1945, Upgraded 3/29/24) David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling, Julien Mitchell. A great Sexton Blake mystery! In a lonely, dark house in Cornwall, a man is murdered in the black of the night, shortly after leaving a confession to an earlier murder on a Dictaphone. Another man is found slain on the beach below...
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ELLIS ISLAND*
(1936, Invincible) Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Jack LaRue, Johnny Arthur. One of the better indie crime films we've seen recently. It opens with a daring bank robbery. Though the crooks are eventually nab
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EMPIRE OF EVIL
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Sterling Noel’s “Empire of Evil” is one of the best mystery-crime thrillers dealing with the Mafia that you’ll ever come across. It was the bloody path to murder. This is the story of Daniel Andradi, a young executive in America’s most terrible industry—crime. This is the rise of a Mafioso, don of the Brotherhood of Evil, wielder of power beyond belief...
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ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN
(1959) Battah, Omar Sharif, Reyad El Kasabgy, Umar El-Hariri. A gang of smugglers murders a factory manager. One of the factory employees is blamed. Before the cops can grab him he flees across the desert into another country. It gets even more complicated when his sister back home falls in love with...
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END OF THE LINE, THE
THE END OF THE LINE (1957) Alan Baxter, Charles Clay, Jennifer Jayne, Barbara Shelley, Ferdy Mayne. Baxter has a great part as an American writer in London who succumbs to the charms of his ex-girlfriend, played by Barbara Shelley (who wouldn’t!). Unfortunately, she’s now married! And when her hubby ends up dead, he finds himself the target of a blackmail scheme...
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ESCAPE BY NIGHT
(1953) Sid James, Bonar Colleano, Simone Silva, Andrew James, Ted Ray, written and directed by John Gilling. James plays an Italian racketeer on the run in London. He runs into a scoop-seeking, hard-drinking reporter. The reporter (Colleano) helps him hide out in a shut-up theater and in return he gets the gangster’s life story. A little boy, who is convinced they’re secret agents, brings them food while they’re in hiding. The coppers are soon onto them...
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EVERYBODY'S WATCHING ME & A BULLET FOR CINDERELLA
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Everybody’s Watching Me” by well-known murder, mystery, and suspense writer Mickey Spillane. o get it from him. So Joe Boyle had to play the dangerous game of always having to be one quick step ahead of the mob. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, "A Bullet for Cinderella" by another well-known mystery writer, John D, MacDonald.
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FALLGUY
(1961) Ed Dugan, G.J. Mitchell, Louis Gartner, Don Alderetter, Madeline Frances, Wes Carlson. A teenage boy drives off from a diner and witnesses a car-to-car shooting in which a gangster is badly wounded, his car crashing into a ditch...
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FALLING MAN, THE
THE FALLING MAN (1968) Henry Silva, Beba Loncar, Keenan Wynn, Carlo Palmucci. Silva plays a tough police inspector in this Euro-crime thriller. A gang of thieves has killed his son. To make matters worse, he’s accused of killing a police informer. Soon he’s fired from the force...
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FALSE FACES
(1931) Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill, David Landau, Joyce Compton. Sherman gives a grand performance as a doctor who’s fired from his hospital job for being morally corrupt. He then sets himself up as a plastic surgeon, although he is completely unqualified. He seduces women, rips off his patients, and soon causes an operating room tragedy that lands him in criminal court...
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FANNY BY GASLIGHT*
(1944) Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger. Calvert is the down-on-her-luck damsel in this polished Victorian melodrama. Mason is great as the dastardly fellow who kills her...
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FAREWELL TO PASSION
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another excellent murder mystery, “Farewell to Passion,” by that outstanding whodunit author, Day Keene. From the lush bistros of Sunset Strip, Hollywood, to the brooding swamps of backwoods Georgia, Hi Shannon (his honor destroyed by his wife’s unbridled passions and his head hunted by the law and the L. A. syndicate) searches for the one clue and...
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FEAR NO MORE
(1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding, Helena Nash, John Baer. Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from Los Angeles to San Francisco. She soon finds herself accused of murder when a dead woman is found in her compartment. Arrested and taken off the train, she escapes custody and flees to her apartment. There she finds...
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FEDERAL FUGITIVES*
(1941 PRC) - Neil Hamilton, Doris Day, Victor Varconi, Charles C. Wilson. As PRCs go, this one is a cut above the norm. Hamilton plays a slick secret service agent assigned to probe the deaths of three of
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FEMALE FIENDS
(1963) Lex Barker, Carole Matthews, Peter Dyneley. An accident gives Lex amnesia...
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FEMALE FUGITIVE
(1938) Evelyn Venable, Craig Reynolds, Reed Hadley, John Kelly. A woman is shocked when she discovers her husband is the head of a truck-hijacking ring. When he forces her to drive their getaway car, she finds herself wanted by the police, too. An OK Monogram crime thriller with an engaging script...
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FIGHTING PILOT, THE*
(1935, Reliable) Dick Talmadge, Gertie Messinger, Robert Frazer, Eddie Davis, Victor Mace. A fun poverty row action film with a bit of a yellow peril slant to it. A crafty gangster is trying to secure the
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FIND EILEEN HARDIN—ALIVE! & MURDER ON THE MAKE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Our first novel is “Find Eileen Hardin—Alive!” by top tier mystery author, Stephen Marlowe. Eileen Hardin was barely eighteen, too young to be a call girl! The second novel is another terrific murder mystery, “Murder on the Make” by Robert Martin. It was a perfect “murder-for-money” setup...
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FIRE RAISERS, THE
(1934) Leslie Banks. Anne Grey, Carol Goodner, Frank Cellier, Frances L. Sullivan. Don’t let the non-descript title fool you, this is one tough, mean-spirited thriller about insurance fraud and murder. Banks is marvelous as a slick talking fire insurance investigator who falls in with a gang of arsonists...
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FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1961) Johnny Cash, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Ronnie Howard, Pamela Mason. Cash plays a vile, hardboiled hood, hired to hold a bank president’s wife (Forester) hostage while the bank is being robbed. Held at gunpoint in her own home, she is put through hell by Cash...
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FLAW, THE
(1955) John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson. The British had a field day making B murder mysteries in the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, and many of them are unsung little gems. Terrence Fisher’s The
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FLESH AND BLOOD
(1922) Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Jack Mulhall. An outstanding crime melodrama with Lon as a convict hiding out in Chinatown. He assumes the identity of a cripple in order to track down the businessman who...
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FLYING FISTS*
(1937, Victory) Herman Brix, Jeanne Martel, Fuzzy Knight, J Farrell MacDonald, Guinn Williams, Dickie Jones. This is a nifty little action thriller with brix as a lumberjack who floors the ex-heavyweight champ. He's
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FOG FOR A KILLER
(1962) David Sumner, Susan Travers, James Hayter, John Arnatt, Jack Watson, Renee Houston. A short but sweet thriller about an ex-con who becomes the prime suspect after a string of horrible slayings occur. The murders always occur under a full moon and the victims are always young blondes. The final scene in a fog-enshrouded wooded are between Sumner and Travers is very well done. Is he the killer…or isn’t he? Aka Out of the Fog. 16mm.
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FOOTSTEPS IN THE NIGHT
(1931) Benita Hume, Peter Hannen, Harold Huth, Walter Armitage. Hum and Hannen are newlyweds, off on their honeymoon. Hannen is also an inventor with secret plans. Little do the newlyweds realize that international crooks are out to steal Hannen's plans, who is soon kidnappedby the bad guys. However, when they find he’s not in possession of the plans, Hume is left to contend with the conniving, low-down scoundrel Harold Huth...
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FOUL PLAY
(1955) Kataoka Chiezo, Otomo Ryutaro, Okawa Keiko, Sakurmachi Hiroko, Oka Satomi. Perhaps the best B-murder mystery we’ve seen in a long time. During the middle of the Japanese World Series, a player is murdered
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FOUR HOURS OF TERROR, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1959) Ken Takakura, Kenji Imai. This is a terrific film about a mad killer on an airliner. The film’s initial exposition is great as we get to know all the various passengers who are boarding the plane. The killer, who has just murdered three people, then boards with a gun in hidden in his pocket (no security screening back then). When one of the passengers discovers his identity, the killer holds the plane at bay (in flight) and threatens to kill anyone who refuses to obey him...
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FOUR WAYS OUT
(1951) Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco, Paul Muller, story by Federico Fellini. This is a realistic Euro-crime film that deals with four criminals who stage a robbery during a soccer match. But before they can make their getaway the cops arrive, so they split up without dividing their booty...
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FRANTIC
(1958) Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly. An ex-commando, in love with his employer's wife, commits murder, making it look like suicide. A teenager's prank backfires and the "perfect crime" turns into
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FRENZY & IN THIS CORNER—DEATH!
Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. “Frenzy” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by James O. Causey. Shannon...she was a slut with a body like flame—hell’s own angel—wrapped up in murder and mayhem This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of murder and crime, “In this Corner—Death” by Emile C. Tepperman. It was a good deed turned into a nightmare...
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FRIGHTENED MAN, THE
(1952) Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe, Thora Hird, John Horseley. Walsh is a college lad who shatters his father’s dreams when he is basically expelled from Oxford University for being a bit of an upstart...
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FURY ON SUNDAY & THE AGONY COLUMN
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels. The first novel is “Fury on Sunday” by Richard Matheson. The second novel is “The Agony Column” by heralded mystery author, Earl Derr Biggers. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.
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GANG BUSTERS
(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.
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GASLIGHT*
(1940) Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Robert Newton. A husband tries to drive his wife insane in an effort to find hidden family gems. The heroic efforts of a detective save her from his clutches. Recomme
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GAUNT STRANGER, THE
(1938 aka THE PHANTOM STRIKES, Upgraded 11/28/21) Sonnie Hale, Wilfred Lawson, Louise Henry. A fairly obscure Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him...
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GENTLE TRAP, THE
(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Spencer Teakle, Felicity Young, Martin Benson, Hugh Latimer, Dorinda Stevens, Dawn Brooks. A couple of burglars (one old, one young) crack the safe in a jewelry shop, but just as they’re making their getaway they’re attacked by rival gangsters. The young one manages to escape...
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GENTLEMAN FROM DIXIE*
(1942) PRC - Jack LaRue, Marion Marsh, Robert Kellard, Clarence Muse. Jack’s an ex-con who was framed for murder. Later, he finds that a local businessman is not only the real killer but is also trying to
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GET THAT MAN*
(1935) Mayfair/Empire - Wallace Ford, Finis Barton, E. Alyn Warren, Leon Ames. Ford plays a cabby who is a dead ringer for a millionaire. When the millionaire ends up murdered, Ford is coerced by a sly pri
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GIRL IN THE PICTURE, THE
(1957) Patrick Holt, Donald Houston, Junia Crawford, Maurice Kaufmann. An old photo showing a young woman is published in a London paper. The photo reveals a vital clue in a four-year-old murder case
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GIRL WHO CAME BACK, THE*
(1935) Chesterfield - Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison. A young gal falls in with a counterfeiting ring. She flees to Hollywood to get away from her past, but the gang eventually shows up and tr
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GIRL WHO FORGOT, THE
(1939) Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Michael, Enid Stamp Taylor, Basil Radford, Jeanne de Casaslis. Allan plays a much-under-pressure college student who boards a train and comes down with a serious case of amnesia. She’s eventually preyed upon by an old crook who poses as her mother in order to usurp her trust fund...
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GIRL WITH HYACINTHS, THE
(1950) Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tenbroth, Anders Ek, Marianne Lofgren. A beautiful but troubled young woman commits suicide. Her personal effects are inherited by the caretaker in the house she lived in. He in turn gives the information of her death over to a writer who decides, in a very detective-like manner, to solve the mystery of her suicide...
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GIRLS IN CHAINS*
(1943) Arline Judge, Roger Clark, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A women's prison counselor tries to improve conditions in the prison, instead she gets caught up in a web of corruption and murder. A bit hokey
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GO GET 'EM HAINES*
(1936) Bill Boyd, Sheila Terry, Eleanor Hunt, Leroy Mason. A sea-faring murder mystery with Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) giving up his cowboy boots to play a reporter who gries to solve the mystery of a passenger
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GOLD EXPRESS, THE
THE GOLD EXPRESS (1955) Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, May Hallatt, Patrick Boxill, Ivy St. Helier, John Serret. Gray plays a handsome reporter who, along with his new bride, are about to embark on their honeymoon when he is assigned to cover a story on express train loaded with a fortune in gold. Unknown to all is that there are crooks on board with a devious plot to...
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GOLD RACKET, THE*
Grand National - Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Fuzzy Knight, Warner Richmond, Charles Delaney, Vince Barnett. A nice little crime thriller about a criminal ring that smuggles low-priced gold from Mexico into the Unit
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GOOD LUCK TO THE CORPSE
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Heralded whodunit author Max Murray lays down a gripping tale of murder and suspense with, “Good Luck to the Corpse.” Red was his lucky color! The little man scuttled up to the roulette table. He looked shrunken and sick. He placed twenty thousand on red. The croupier spun the wheel, then dropped the little white ball. It raced around the wheel, slowed, and dropped—red...
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GORILLA OF SOHO, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1968, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tapper, Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Herbert Fux, Hubert von Meyerinck. A killer gorilla stalks the dark streets of London, murdering unsuspecting victims. All the victims have agreed to donate their money to a charitable organization in the event of...
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GREAT ARMORED CAR SWINDLE
Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh. From 35mm.(1961) Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham, Lisa Gastoni. This is a surprisingly well-done short and sweet crime thriller. Reynolds plays an in-debt-
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GREAT DEFENDER, THE*
(1934) Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman, Richard Bird, Arthur Margetson. Lang is a top lawyer, about to retire because of poor health. In his final case he defends a man falsely accused of murder.
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GREAT GABBO, THE
(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...
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GREEN RUST, THE, & THE CLUE OF THE TWISTED CANDLE
Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Green Rust” by all time great mystery writer Edgar Wallace is our first classic story. The second tale is another great Edgar Wallace thriller, “The Clue of the Twisted Candle.”
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GRIEF STREET*
(1931, Chesterfield) John Holland, Barbara Kent, Crauford Kent. Nifty backstage murder mystery about a well-known actor who is found in his dressing room—strangled. A reporter attempts to solve the
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GUILTY BYSTANDER, THE & BLOOD OF MY BROTHER
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Guilty Bystander” by hard-boiled expert Mike Brett. The second novel is a the suspenseful "Blood of My Brotehr," by Stephen Marlowe...
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GUNS DON'T ARGUE*
(1957) Myron Healey, Jim Davis, Richard Crane. If you liked MA BARKER'S KILLER BROOD you'll definitely want to see this schlocker about the rise and fall of America's most famous criminals. Dillinger is pl
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HAIL MAFIA*
(1965) Eddie Constantine, Jack Klugman, Henry Silva. A terrific film with a top-notch cast! Jack and Henry play hit men ordered to kill Eddie. Jack is torn between his orders and the loyalty he feels to h
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HALF A SINNER
(1940, Universal) Heather Angel, John “Dusty” King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan. Angel is terrific as a beautiful schoolteacher who, bored with life, takes off on an adventure. Unfortunately, it lands her into a conversation with a gangster; and when he gets a little too friendly, she takes off in his car. Unknown to her, there’s a dead body in the trunk...
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HAMMER THE TOFF
(1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson, Valentine Dyall, Lockwood West. Bentley is the Toff, a “Saint” style detective who falls upon a sinister plot while on a train. It seems that a criminal known as “the Hammer” is looking to steal a secret formula for a new lightweight metal alloy that’s tougher than steel...
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HANGMAN WAITS, THE
(1947) John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell, Hylton Allen, Anthony Baird. This is an odd little mystery with a very old-timey music score. A movie usherette is hung out to dry (murdered!) following a fling with the theater manager. Who is the killer? That’s what...
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HATE SHIP, THE
(1929) Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin, Henry Victor, Jack Raine. This Forgotten Horrors style thriller is about the son of a murdered count who goes on a party cruise. Someone tries to kill him, but the
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HE WALKED BY NIGHT
(1948, Upgraded 12/30/20) Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell, Jack Webb. Basehart portrays one of the most brutal, ingenious killers ever put on the screen in this story of the LA police and their hunt for him. The opening drive-up scene is very memorable and will jolt you right out of your seat...
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HEADLINE WOMAN, THE*
(1935 Mascot) Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Conway Tearle, Jack LaRue, Russel Hopton, Ward Bond. A great cast helps make this a top indie crime film. Pryor is a crackerjack reporter who witnessess the murder of a g
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HIDDEN ROOM, THE*
(1949) Robert Newton, Sally Gray. Spine tingling suspense in this chiller about a madman who keeps his rival locked in a cellar with plans of murdering him. An A-1 production from start to finish. From 16
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HITCH-HIKER, THE—Original Full Screen Edition
(1953) Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talman, Jose Torvay. This is truly one of the most gripping film noir classics you'll ever see. The plot concerns two vacationing businessmen who are held captive by a psychopath. The hitch-hiking killer puts his companions through sheer hell as they roll through the lonely highways of Mexico...
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HITCH-HIKER,THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1953) Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talman, Jose Torvay. This is truly one of the most gripping film noir classics you'll ever see. The plot concerns two vacationing businessmen who are held captive by a psychopath. The hitch-hiking killer puts his companions through sheer hell as they roll through the lonely highways of Mexico...
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HOLLYWOOD MYSTERY* (aka Hollywood Hoodlum)
(1934 AKA HOLLYWOOD HOODLUM)June Clyde, Frank Albertson, Jose Crespo. A wildly irresponsible publicity agent keeps getting fired from his studio. After he’s given another chance, he hires an obscure actor and presents him to t
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HOLLYWOOD STADIUM MYSTERY*
(1938 REPUBLIC) Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable. A boxer is killed in the ring and the only clue is the tune a man was whistling. Starts out like a horror film, then veers into a straight whodunit murder mystery. Be
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HOME TO DANGER
(1951) Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson, Stanley Baker, Alan Wheatley, Francis Lister, directed by Terrence Fisher. This is a terrific little thriller. A sleazy dope peddler plots to murder a girl who inher
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HONOR OF THE PRESS*
(1932, Mayfair) Eddie Nugent, Dorothy Gulliver, Rita La Roy, Wheeler Oakman. A rookie reporter lands a job on a big city paper. When a rash of robberies occur, the newspaper owner lays the blame squar
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HOODLUM, THE
(1951) Lawrence Tierney, Aliene Robert. Here's another nice little suspenser starring everybody's favorite film noir bad guy, Lawrence tierney. A paroled criminal working at a gas statin plans a robbery that
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HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1968, Upgrade 10/31/21) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Beautiful Karin Baal inherits the mysterious old Blackwood castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that dead bodies are starting to pile up, their flesh torn from attacks by a...
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HOTEL CONTINENTAL*
(1932, Tiffany) Peggy Shannon, Theodore Von Eltz, Alan Mowbray. A posh hotel is about to close its doors forever. A paroled convict comes back to the hotel to find stolen funds he hid there years earlier...
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HOUSE IN THE WOODS, THE*
(1957) Michael Gough, Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc. Gough plays an author who moves into a small country house to write a good murder mystery. There he finds evidence of an actural murder. What secret does th
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HUNCHBACK OF SOHO, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1966, Upgraded 10/30/21) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of...
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HYENA IN THE SAFE, A
(1964) Dimitri Nabokov, Maria Luisa Geisberger, Ben Salvador, Sandro Pizzochero. A quartet of bank thieves rendezvous in a secluded castle to divvy up a bundle of diamonds, which had been hidden there by their dead boss. But the jewels are secured in an iron-clad safe and the only way to open it is with a combination of keys, one having been given to each of the thieves...
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I AM A CRIMINAL
I AM A CRIMINAL (1938, Monogram) John Carroll, Kay Linaker, Craig Reynolds, Martin Spellman, Lester Matthews. Carroll is a gangster that the local DA (Matthews) wants to lock up and then throw away the key. After going through a series of intriguing events, Carroll ends up jumping bail and hiding from the cops in a mountain resort...
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I COVER CHINATOWN
(1936, Banner) Norman Foster, Elaine Shepard, Vince Barnett, Theodore von Eltz, Arthur Lake, Polly Ann Young. Two brothers run a Chinatown jewelry store that’s also a fence for “hot” goods. When one of the brothers’ wives decides to cut out, the other brother murders her—the corpse ending up in the trunk of a car!
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I DEMAND PAYMENT*
(1938, Imperial) Jack LaRue, Betty Burgess, Lloyd Hughes, Guinn Williams. A luckless guy gets involved with a loan shark whose henchmen bump off non-payers. LaRue is great as the slimy head of the
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I KILLED THAT MAN*
(1941, Monogram) Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury. A man condemned to the electric chair is killed by a poison dart instead! The path to the killer leads to high officials. Fairly good Monogram myster
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I LIVE ON DANGER
(1942) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Edward Norris, Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Risdon, Dick Purcell. Morris is a fast-talking reporter who’ll do anything for a story. Shipwreck victim Parker falls for hi
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I WAS JACK MORTIMER
(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff. Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab. Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...
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I'D GIVE MY LIFE*
(1936) Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Janet Beecher, Robert Gleckler. A vile gangster pushes Brown toward a life of crime, ordering him to kill a horse jockey. He refuses. The crook tells B
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I'LL NAME THE MURDERER*
(1936 Puritan) Ralph Forbes, Marion Shilling, Malcolm MacGregor, James Guifoyle, John Cowell. A fine poverty row crime thriller. When a Broadway singer is found murdered in her dressing room, a newspaper
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IMPACT
(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker. Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print. Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...
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IMPULSE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall. Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England. Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...
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INDIAN SCARF, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1963, Upgraded 10/22/21) Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Corny Collins, Gisela Uhlen, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber. are being strangled one by one. The action centers around the dead mans creepy, country estate. When a wealthy man dies, the heirs to a dead mans fortune look forward to inheriting all his loot. However, soon the relatives are being killed off one by one, each of them strangled with...
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INN ON THE RIVER—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1962, Upgraded 10/23/21) Klaus Kinski, Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Eddi Arent. Scotland Yard investigate a grisly series of murders being orchestrated by a master criminal known as "The Shark"...
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INSIDE INFORMATION
(1934) Rex Lease, Marion Shilling, Philo McCullough, Henry Hall, Charlie King. A great cast helps this poverty row crime film sparkle. Lease plays an investment film employee who ends up in a pickle
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INSIDE THE ROOM
(1935, Universal) Austin Trevor, Gary Marsh, George Hayes, Robert Horton, Brian Buchell. A visiting French sleuth steps in to help the police solve the “diary murders,” in which each victim is found in possession of a diary page of a dead actress. Before long a murdered corpse is found in a locked room! This is one of those cool, intricate murder mysteries in a big old mansion filled with red herrings and other furtive types...
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INTERNATIONAL CRIME*
(1937, Grand Nat.) Rod LaRoque, Astrid Allwyn, Thomas Jackson. Recently re-mastered from a nice 16mm print. This time Lamont Cranston (The Shadow) is presented as a radio super sleuth. He challenge
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INTERRUPTED JOURNEY
(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train. Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...
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INVISIBLE AVENGER*
(1958) Richard Derr, Mark Daniels. REMASTERED! Once thought to be a lost film. Our hero, the Shadow (Lamont Cranston) uses invisibility in his investigation...
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INVISIBLE KILLER, THE
(1939, PPC) Grace Bradley, Roland Drew, William Newell, Alex Callam. Bradley’s a trouble-maker reporter who finds herself at odds, not only with crooks, but with her detective boyfriend whom she alwa
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ISLAND MONSTER, THE
THE ISLAND MONSTER (1954) Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Renato Vicario, Patricia Remiddi. This often-maimed Karloff thriller really isn’t all that bad if you can get past the fact that Karloff’s voice is dubbed by someone else. A law enforcement agent heads to a small Italian island to break up a drug smuggling ring. Things get complicated when the smugglers kidnap his daughter...
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IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU*
(1937, Republic) Alan Baxter, Andrea Leads, Owen Davis, Astrid Allwyn. Captivating story of two brothers, one good, one bad. The good one becomes a lawyer while the bad one resorts to crime and ultimately ends up in...
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IT COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED, BUT IT DID*
(1936, Chesterfield) Reginald Denny, Jack LaRue, Evelyn Brent, Inez Courtney. Murder-mystery playwright tries to solve the puzzling case of his murdered producers. A well-done little Chesterfield whodunnit. 16mm.
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IT HAPPENED AT THE INN
(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean. Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin. Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...
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IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT*
(1958) Heinz Ruhmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Michel Simon, Siegfried Lowitz, Gerte Frobe. An early Euro-thriller you don’t want to miss. A human beast is on the loose as several girls are murdered near mountain villages...
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IT TAKES A THIEF*
(1960) Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Mohner, Edward Judd. This is one helluva crime film, one of the best we offer. Quayle is suckered into being the transport man for a big robbery by the stunning
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JENNIFER HALE
(1937) Rene Ray, Ballard Berkeley, John Longden, Paul Blake. Rene’s a chorus girl who’s seen leaving the hotel room of a show producer who’s found dead inside—bludgeoned on the back of the head. She
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JIGSAW*
(1949)Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence. A crusading New York Assistant D.A. tries to expose and smash a vile "hate group" made up of supposedly patriotic Americans. Watch for so
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JIM HANVEY, DETECTIVE*
(1937, Republic)Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, Edward Gargan. An insurance company seeks the services of an eccentric detective to track down jewel thieves. Kibbee in the title role is hilarious. This is a rea
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JOHNNY ONE-EYE*
(1950)Pat O’Brien, Wayne Morris, Dolores Moran, Gayle Reed, Donald Woods, Lyle Talbot. O’Brien and Morris are killers who murder and dump the body of a traitorous gangster in the drink. Morris helps finge
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JOURNEY INTO NOWHERE
(1962) Tony Wright, Sonja Ziemann, Helmud Schmidt. Wright is a wayward young mand who’s on the lam from a gang of thugs. He soon meets up with a blind woman. Together they come up with a double indemnity insurance scam, which they may or may not have the brains to pull off...
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JUDAS HOUR, THE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Watergate mastermind E. Howard Hunt penned a brilliant tale of sexual corruption, crime, and murder in “The Judas Hour.” She had brought him back from a living death, rescued him from degradation. Now, as she stood before him, Jake Webb knew this woman—who now owned his life—was evil...
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JUDGE, THE
(1949) Milburn Stone, Katherine DeMille, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley Waxman. Stone, in what may be the biggest role of his career, is a criminal defense attorney who discovers that his faithless wife is playing around on him with the county police psychiatrist. He then concocts a bizarre plan of revenge...
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KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1953) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific film noir about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime...
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KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL—Original Full Screen Edition
(1952, Upgraded 10/25/22) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him...
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KATE PLUS TEN
(1938, Aka QUEEN OF CRIME) Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison, Francis Sullivan, Arthur Wonter. In this great Edgar Wallace thriller, Hulbert is a slick policeman out to nab Tobin and her criminal gang. Watch for the great scene where her gang robs a bank in the black of the night only to find the building encircled by police. Later, the gang heists a train loaded with gold bullion. When the police pursue, the train seemingly vanishes...
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KENNEL MURDER CASE, THE
(1933, Warners, Upgraded 11/11/21) William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Paul Cavanough. There's no doubt that William Powell was one of the best screen detectives in the history of film, and here's a fine example. Powell is Philo Vance trying to solve a murder centered around seven suspects and a dead...
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KILLER IS ON THE TELEPHONE, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
THE KILLER IS ON THE TELEPHONE—WIDESCREEN EDITION (1972) Telly Savalis, Anne Heywood, Giorgio Piazza, Osvaldo Ruggieri. Beautiful Anne Heywood plays a woman whose husband was murdered five years before. She is stalked, though, by the killer (Savalis) who wants to rub her out and end her threat as a potential witness against him...
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KILLER WALKS, A
(1952) Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner, Susan Shaw, Sheila Shand Gibbs. Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing gra
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KILLER WITH A SILK SCARF
(1966) Carl Mohner, Helga Line, Folco Lulli, Sonja Romanoff. A nine-year-old girl is witness to a terrible murder. The killer is soon after her as the chase winds through back alleys and streets of
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KING MURDER CASE, THE*
(1932)Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Don Alvarado, Marceline Day. A ruthless young woman becomes involved with blackmail. Murder soon follows in this nifty Chesterfield whodunit. Not bad. From 16mm.
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KING OF THE UNDERWORLD
(1952) Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Ingeborg von Kusserow. Tod is up to his nefarious plans once again as he plans an elaborate scheme for blackmail. Barr plays the detective who’s out to bring him to justice. There’s murder and mayhem aplenty in this curious film. Tod has some priceless bits of dialogue, complimented here and there with his maniacal laughter...
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KISS AND KILL & THE DEAD STAND-IN
Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Kiss and Kill” by veteran mystery writer Richard Deming. The second novel is a classic Johnny Liddell tale of nail-biting suspense, “The Dead Stand-In” by another well-known mystery writer, Frank Kane.
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LADY FROM NOWHERE
(1931, Chesterfield) Alice Day, John Holland, Phillips Smalley, Barbara Bedford, Mischa Auer. These old Chesterfield crime films are getting harder and harder to find. As far as we know, this one’s
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LADY GANGSTER
(1942, Warners) Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Jackie Gleason, Roland Drew. Emerson is a struggling actress who’s almost broke and desperately needs money. So she agrees to help three crooks in their bank robbery scheme...
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LADY IN SCARLET*
(1935, Chesterfield) Reginald Denny, Patricia Farr, Dorothy Revier, Claudia Dell, James Bush. An antique dealer is slain with a bloody rapier! There's also a dagger pinning his hand into the hardwood floor. A high-class
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LADY IN THE DEATH HOUSE
LADY IN THE DEATH HOUSE (1944, PRC) Lionel Atwill, Jean Parker, Douglas Fowley, Marcia May Jones. This is a PRC one-week wonder with Parker on death row for murdering the man who blackmailed her family. She claims the whole thing was a set-up. In a strange twist of fate, her fiancé, (who’s a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead!) also happens to be the executioner at the prision...
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LADY LUCK*
(1936, Chesterfield) William Bakewell, Patricia Farr, Lulu McConnell, Duncan Renaldo, Iris Adrian. A female movie-star wannabe holds a winning ticket for a race won by champion racehorse, “Lady Luck.” T
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LAST MILE, THE*
(1932, World Wide) Foster, Howard Phillips, George E. Stone, Noel Madison, Paul Fix. A terrific cast makes this B crime epic a real winner. A man is falsely convicted of murdering his business partner during a gas sta
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LAUGHTER CAME SCREAMING & THE EXTORTIONERS
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is “Laughter Came Screaming” by hard-boiled mystery specialist Henry Kane. The second tale is another good one, “The Extortioners” by Ovid Demaris...
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LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD*
(1938) Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Abel, Richard Bond. A young couple is robbed by hoodlums. Later, they try to rob the gangsters but are forced to fall in with the thiev
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LIE, THE*
(1954) Lee Bowman, Ramsay Ames, Harald Maresch, Eva Probst.. A guy goes out drinking with some “friends.” He wakes up the next morning with a dead body on the floor of his apartment. He’s then tried and convicted...
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LIFE IN DANGER*
(1959) Darren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins, Victor Brooks, Howard Marion-Crawford. This obscure British thriller deals with the fear and paranoia that ripples through a small community after a dangerous in
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LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
(1928) Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman, Mary Carr, Eugene Pallette. Here it is, filmdom’s first all-talking picture. The setting is a Broadway speakeasy. Landis is a gullible kid from upstate who’s taken in by a couple of crooks, thinking that they’re going to help him...
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LINE-UP, THE
(1929) William Black, Viola Richard, directed by Charles L. Glett. Don’t bother looking, you won’t find this incredibly rare American-made crime featurette in any of the major film research books or websites. It’s a little creaky but interesting—especially from a film history perspective. PLUS: BOTHERED BY A BEARD (1945) Tod Slaughter, Jerry Verno, John Salew. Todd does a short reprisal of his Sweeny Todd character...
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LISTENER, THE & NERO WOLFE
(1956) Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody, Walter Coy, Richard Lupino. Ida and her kid brother (her real life cousin, Richard) plot to kill Ida’s husband and collect the insurance money. They use a gas leak to commit the crime. The only problem is her husband’s invalid father...
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LONG DARK HALL, THE*
(1951) Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer. A woman stands by her husband when he's accuse of murdering his mistress. Can he be saved from his impending execution?
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LOST LADY
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Renown 20th Century mystery writer Octavus Roy Cohen spins a real web of suspense with his tale called “Lost Lady. In Hollywood anything could happen. Working the Hollywood night watch was a good gig for Sergeant Danny O'Leary—that was until...
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LOVE ME--AND DIE! & YOU'LL GET YOURS
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Love Me and Die!” by veteran mystery writer Day Keene. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “You’ll Get Yours” by another well-known mystery writer, Thomas Wills.
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LOVERS ARE LOSERS
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Our author is former Watergate mastermind and suspected JFK assassination conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who’s at his very best in one of the mystery and intrigue novels that he was also famous for, “Lovers are Losers.” It’s a nail-biting tale about a...
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LUSTFUL APE, THE, & KISS THE BABE GOODBYE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Lustful Ape” by well-known mystery writer, Bruno Fisher. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “Kiss the Babe Goodbye” by another well-known mystery writer, Bob McKnight.
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M*
(1931) Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Gustav Grundgens. The Fritz Lang classic about a crazed child killer that's hunted down and tried by the German underworld is still disturbing after 60-plus years.
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MA BARKER'S KILLER BROOD—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1960, Upgraded 11/10/21) Lurene Tuttle, Tris Coffin, Myrna Dell, Nelson Leigh, Don Grady, Victor Lundin, Paul Dubov, Eric Morris, Byron Foulger. Tuttle plays the sadistic, killer "mommy" who leads her murdering pack of bestial sons through a series of robberies and murders. Also featured are well-known criminals like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and Alvin Karpis. The gang's activities are...
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MAGIC OF MONOGRAM, V-1 (TRAILERS)
Here's a great collection of trailers from Monogram Pictures. There are trailers to many great titles: Federal Bullets (‘37), Under the Big Town (‘38), Fighting Mad (‘39), King of the Zombies (‘40), Murder by Invitation (‘41), Gentleman From Dixie (‘41), Spooks Run Wild (‘41), Klondike Fury (‘42)...
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MAN BAIT
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Man Bait” is a terrific tale of steamy love, betrayal, crime, and murder; written by mystery-crime novelist, Jack Liston. She had his hooks in me. Her name was Marcia. She worked in a bar. She was scrawny but beautiful—and she knew how to control me. It was through Marcia that I came to know Sam Brennerman, an acknowledged underworld big shot...
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MAN BETRAYED, A*
Eddie Nugent, Kay Hughes, Lloyd Hughes. Eddie is a smooth-talking salesman for an oil firm who discovers his company's stock is phony. After one of the company's directors commits suicide, Eddie is
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MAN FROM YESTERDAY, THE*
(1949) John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Gwynneth Vaughan, Laurence Harvey, Marie Burke. A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried
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MAN OF CONFLICT
(1953) John Agar, Edward Arnold. Rich kid Agar comes home to be groomed to take over the family company. He finds out that power has corrupted his father. Conflict soon follows in this sometimes sl
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MAN OF COURAGE
(1943, PRC) Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Forrest Taylor. MacLane, in an unusual role, plays a tough, crusading district attorney. His target he is gunning for (pun intended) is a top local mobster played by Talbot. Unfortunately, Talbot enjoys is protected by a number of crooked politicians...
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MAN ON THE LEDGE*
(1955) Cameron Mitchell, William Gargan, Sylvia Sidney, Vera Miles. A mentally and emotionally disturbed young man, determined to end his life, contemplates suicide for fourteen hours on a high ledge...
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MAN OUTSIDE, THE
(1933) Henry Kendall, John Turnbull, Louis Hayward, Ethel Warwick, Cyril Raymond. This Brit murder mystery-chiller takes place at a creepy, “haunted“ estate called “Raven Hall,” where an assortment of odd people have gathered. Included are a stuffy policeman, a fearful servant girl, a slick crime reporter, a stodgy old aunt, and of course, a terrifying masked man who peers through the windows...
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MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF, THE—35mm Edition
(1950) Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard. Cobb is a tough homicide detective who gets involved with a real black widow, a dame who’s willing to kill her husband—and does! Cobb, blinded by infatuation, wants to turn a blind eye to the situation...
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MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
(1934) Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A married couple, vacationing in Switzerland, becomes aware of an assassination plot. Before they can inform the police, though, their daughter is kidnapped to keep them quiet. Things end up in a strange London church that's being used as a...
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MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE
(1937) Hans Albers, Heinz Ruhmann, Marieluise Claudius, Hansi Knoteck, Hilde Weissner. This is a superb mystery-caper-comedy about two down-on-their-luck detectives who pose as Holmes and Watson. Th
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MAN WITH ICY EYES
(1971) Antonio Sabato, Faith Domergue, Barbara Bouchet, Corrado Gaipa. Here’s a compelling Euro-thriller with a fine cast. A politician is killed in cold blood near his home. The cops arrest a strang
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MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1969, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tappert, Karin Huebner, Fritz Wepper, Ilse Page, Stefan Behrens, Hubert von Meyerinck, Fritz Wepper, Ewa Strömberg. Scotland Yard detective investigates a series of drug-related murders of gangsters and girls. It starts with a man who is found dead in a London hotel room—a knife stuck in his chest and a glass eye in his...
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MARK OF THE TORTOISE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1964, Upgraded 10/27/21) Hildegarde Kneff, Gotz George, Klaus Kinski, Richard Munch, Carl Lange. The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister criminal "The Tortoise." Although not officially...
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MARKED MEN aka DESERT ESCAPE*
(1940, PRC) Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell, John Dilson, Paul Bryar. An escaped con ends up in a small desert town. The gangsters who framed him show up and implicate him in a bank heist. What follows i
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MATINEE IDOL*
(1933) Miles Mander, Camilla Horn, Anthony Hankey, Marguerite Allan. A pretty well done British mystery. A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her si
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MEDUSA
George Hamilton, Cameron Mitchell, Lucianna Paluzzi. This is a real bad movie gem (2.5 on IMDB). A luxurious yacht is found floating on the Aegean Sea, apparently abandoned, except for two lifeless bodies. Proceeding from this perplexing beginning, the story—which is told in flashback by Hamilton (who's dead!), revolves around a Greek setting where a stewardess is viciously killed by a masked maniac...
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MEET SEXTON BLAKE*
(1944) David Farrar, Manning Whiley. A fine British murder mystery that was one of the later entries in the famed Sexton Blake series. On a dark, foggy night a mysterious stranger saws off the hand
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MEN OF SAN QUENTIN*
(1942, PRC) J. Anthony Hughes, Eleanor Stewart, Charles Middleton, Dick Curtis. Hughes is a prison guard who's targeted as a fall guy in an inner-prison conspiracy...
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MERCILESS TRAP, THE*
(1961) Makato Sato, Kumi Mizuno, Ichiro Nakatani, Naoya Kusakawa. Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosey detective suspicious. In an effort to learn
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METAL MONSTER MURDERS, THE
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. David V. Reed's "The Metal Monster Murders" is truly one of the most unique murder mysteries you will ever read. It crawled from the humid, fetid swamp of Jamaica Bay into the depths of refuse metal in a junkyard on the outskirts of New York...
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MIDNIGHT EPISODE
(1950) Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Meredith Edwards, Wilfred Hyde-White. Holloway plays a down-and-out hobo who opens cars doors for theatergoers for spare change. He is shocked tho
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MIDNIGHT LADY, THE*
(1932 Chesterfield) - John Darrow, Sarah Padden, Montagu Love, Claudia Dell. This is kind of a poverty row version of Madame X. Padden owns a notorious big-city speakeasy. When her long lost daughter is ac
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MIDNIGHT LIMITED*
John King, Marjorie Reynolds, Geroge Cleveland. A tough detective investigates a series of robberies aboard a Canadian-bound train. Murder soon follows! A fast-paced, enjoyable Monogram thriller.
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MIDNIGHT MANHUNT*
George Zucco, William Gargan, Anne Savage, Leo Gorcey. A creepy little mystery that takes place in a forboding wax museum filled with the waxen images of famed murderers and gangland figures. Zucco
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MISSING BOYS OF SAINT AGIL, THE
(1938) Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond, Serge Grave. This is another forgotten von Stroheim gem. A group of college boys form a secret society with an ultimate plan of going to America. There’s a mystery afoot, though, when people start disappearing. Things take a turn for the worse when an art professor turns up dead—murdered!
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MISSING GIRLS*
Chesterfield - Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran. A top Chesterfield production! A U.S. Senator is assassinated by a gangster. A young reporter, also on the trail
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MODEL FOR MURDER
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. This gritty tale, “Model for Murder,” is written by highly acclaimed mystery writer, Stephen Marl
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MONOGRAM PICTURES, Vol. 10
STAR REPORTER (1939) Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt; MIDNIGHT LIMITED (1940) John King, Marjorie Reynolds; ROAR OF THE PRESS (1941) Wallace Ford, Jean Parker; LURE OF THE ISLANDS (1942) Robert Lowery, Margie Hart. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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MONOGRAM PICTURES, Vol. 11
Four Movies on Two Discs! JANE EYRE (1934) Colin Clive. Fine adaptation of Bronte novel. BLAZING BARRIERS (1937) Frank Coghlan, Edward Arnold, Jr. BOYS' REFORMATORY (1939) Frankie Darro, Grant Withers. MUTINY IN THE BIG HOUSE (1942) Chas. Bickford, B. MacLane. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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MONOGRAM PICTURES, Vol. 9
POLICE COURT (1932) Henry Walthall; SENSATION HUNTERS (1933) Arline Judge, Preston Foster; THE NUT FARM (1935) Wallace Ford, Betty Alden; A BRIDE FOR HENRY (1937) Anne Nagel, Warren Hull. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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MR. WONG SAGA, THE, V-1
(1938, 1939, Monogram) Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Craig Reynolds, Evelyn Brent, Huntley Gordon, Maxine Jennings, Dorothy Tree. Included in this excellent collection are the firs
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MR. WONG SAGA, THE, V-2
(1939, 1940, Monogram) Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Key Luke, Marjorie Reynolds, Craig Reynolds, Charles Trowbridge, Lotus Long. The second great volume of this great collection are the last three M
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MURDER AT 3 A.M.*
(1953, Renown) Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Philip Saville. A horrible murder is committed early in the morning. A police inspector daringly uses his own sister to help trap the culprit. Short, sweet
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MURDER AT 45 R.P.M.*
(1961) Danielle Darrieus, Michael Auclair. A singer believes she's being haunted by the ghost of her dead husband. This, needless to say, causes problems between her and her new lover. Good story,
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MURDER AT GLEN ATHOL*
John Miljan, Irene Ware, Noel Madison. As poverty row mysteries go, this is very good one. A famed detective (Miljan) comes to a party at a ritzy country estate. Before you know it, there are three
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MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES
MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES (1937 aka SILVER BLAZE) Arthur Wontner, Ian Flemming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Judy Gunn, Robert Horton, Minnie Raynor. Sherlock Holmes goes on holiday and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. Before long his holiday turns into a grisly double murder mystery...
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MURDER AT THE METRO
(1966) Hans Meyer, Yelena Samarina, Dina Loy, Perla Cristal. A down-and-out boxer receives a call from an old acquaintance. He meets him at the entrance to the commuter train system, the Metro. Whe
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MURDER AT THE WINDMILL*
(1949) Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwer, Jack Livesey, Diana Decker. After a performance at the famous Windmill Theater, a man is found dead in the first row, shot by a cast member. The police command an en
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MURDER BY TWO*
(1960) Mel Ferrer, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darieux, Pierre Brice, Alan Scott. A good old-fashioned murder mystery with a very good cast. After a man is horribly murdered the police begin their s
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MURDER CAN BE DEADLY
(1962) Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Tony Wickert, David Hemmings. Two small-time blackmail artists (a man and woman) run afoul of a brutal gangster, who stabs the man to death in his apartment as a warning for others to stay clear of his territory. But when the woman shows up with an intended victim (a drunken student), the body is discovered and the student, in a drunken stupor, agrees to dispose of it...
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MURDER CAN'T WAIT
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Can’t Wait” is the name of this hardboiled novel, written by Manning Stokes. A million dollars was waiting at the end of a murderous plot. To say Vince Donnellen was down on his luck would be an understatement...
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MURDER CLEAR, TRACK FAST
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Clear, Track Fast” is a tremendous racetrack murder mystery by longtime mystery author, Judson Philips. Saratoga was the place—the heart of thoroughbred racing in America. Into this world came Don Channing, partner in a New York law firm. His task—to solve the year-old murder of Jerome Fails...
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MURDER HAS MANY FACES
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Has Many Faces” is a great thriller by top-notch mystery writer William O’Farrell. “I’m looking for an Angel.” That’s what Nick Winterburn told them as he followed a tangled web of murder and mystery deep into the blazing, unfriendly land known as Mexico...
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MURDER IN THE GRANGE—Inspector Morley, Vol. One
(1952) Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Tod Slaughter, Frank Hawkins. These two episodes are from an obscure Brit detective TV series. Barr, as Morley, is an ex-police inspector, now in private practice. He’s called in by two elderly sisters who say that someone is plotting to kill them...
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MURDER IS NEWS*
Warwick - John Gallaudet, Iris Meredith, George McKay, Doris Lloyd, John Hamilton. A great little whodunit. Radio columnist Jerry Tracy (Gallaudet) heads out to meet with a big industrialist who pla
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MURDER ON APPROVAL*
(1955) Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth, Michael Balfour. Conway, in one of his last starring roles, is an investigator on the trail of a priceless, recently stolen stamp. His top suspect is
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MURDER ON LENOX AVENUE
MURDER ON LENNOX AVENUE (1941) Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood, Gus Smith. The setting for this all-black drama is Harlem, 1941. Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace an apartment building’s ousted, crooked leader (who wants revenge!) is having a hell of a time contending with his young ward, a two-timing womanizer whose affairs are approaching crisis level...
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MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS*
(1932, Peerless) Natalie Moorhead, Jack Mulhall, Edmund Breeze, Clara Young. A wealthy man is threatened with blackmail by his mistress. She flees, though, when her raging ex-con boyfriend comes afte
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MURDER PARTY
(1961) Robert Graf, Magali Noel, Gotz George, Harry Meyen. Similar to the Edgar Wallace Krimi series of the '60s. A fashion designer has murdered his mistress. Much to his chagrin, he discovers a
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MURDER WITHOUT TEARS & NO WAY OUT
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Murder Without Tears” is our first grisly tale of murder by Leonard Lupton. This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “No Way Out” by Milton K. Ozaki...
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MURDER'S END
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Robert Kelston serves up a murder mystery in a graveyard with “Murder’s End.” You had a cemetery full of corpses—but one of them was a fresh murder victim! As the owner of a stately cemetery, Charlie King was a man who made dying a pleasure. But when Charlie turned up murdered, finding his killer became a convoluted mystery...
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MY FLESH IS SWEET & THE MORTGAGE LOAN MURDERS
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a real thriller, “My Flesh is Sweet.” It was a frantic search that would soon lead to a trail of crime, intrigue, and bloody murder! This double novel’s second tale is a lively murder mystery, “The Mortgage Loan Murders” by Francis M. Deegan.
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MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES & THE SECRET ADVERSARY
Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. This double novel features two classics by the queen of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie. The first tale is a Hercule Poirot thriller, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles.” Our second Christie tale is another great one, “The Secret Adversary.”
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MYSTERIOUS MR. DAVIS
(1939) Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, Richard Gofe, Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton. Kendall plays a down and out, unemployed family man who’s behind on his rent and has his gas cut off by his landlord. Desperate to make ends meet, he comes up with an incredible ruse. He creates a non-existant alter-ego, “Mr. Davis,” and begins an elaborate con-game that becomes wildly successful...
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MYSTERIOUS MR. NICHOLSON
(1947) Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond, Frank Hawkins. How would you like it if you found yourself suspected of murder, only to find that you have a murderous double who's running around killing people. That's...
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MYSTERY LINER
(1934, Monogram, Upgraded 9/14/21) Noah Beery Sr, Astrid Allyn, Ralph Lewis, Edwin Maxwell, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Gabby Hayes. A gorgeous upgrade of this old Forgotten Horrors favorite. Murder, mystery and strange experiments aboard an ocean liner—this Monogram chiller has it all. The ghost of a former captain is apparently haunting the ship, his ghostly apparition being seen...
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MYSTERY MAN, THE*
Robert Armstrong, Maxine Doyle, Guy Usher. A Monogram mystery about a wase cracking reporter (Armstrong) who finds himself hot on the trail of a mysterious killer known as "the eel." A well-made Mono
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MYSTERY OF MR. WONG, THE
Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree. Murder and mystery surround the theft of a precious gem at a big social party. Naturally, Mr. Wong is called in to investigate. Boris is fun to watch. From 16mm.
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MYSTERY OF THE GREEN SPIDER—Anamorphic Widescreen
(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Adrian Hoven, Renate Ewert, Hans von Borsody, Jochen Brockmann. This cool Krimi offering is available with English subtitles for the first time. Inside a smoky nightclub called “the Green Spider” a beautiful singer finishes her song, then the band takes over, playing a raucous jazzy tune. Lost in all the noise is the sound of a gunshot...
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MYSTERY SUSPENSE CRIME TRAILER CLASSICS, Vol. One
Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures. Here's the list: Big Town (1932), Amateur Crook (1937), Special Inspector (1939), What Price Vengeance (1937), Let’s Get Tough (1942), Shadows Over Chinatown (1946), The Chinese Cat (1944), Behind the Mask (1946), The Missing Lady (1946, Shadow), Pearl of Death (1944, Holmes), Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Holmes)...
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MYSTERY SUSPENSE CRIME TRAILER CLASSICS, Vol. Two
Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures. Here's the list: Broadway Big Shot (1942), Manhattan Shakedown (1939), Boss of Big Town (1943), Hidden Menace (1940), Gentleman from Dixie (1941), Inside the Law (1942), Gallant Lady (1942), Detective Kitty O’Day (1944), Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1944), Incident (1948), I’ll Name the Murderer (1936), Notorious (1946)...
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MYSTIC CIRCLE MURDER, THE*
(1938) Robert Fiske, Helene LeBerthon, Robert Frazer, Madame Harry Houdini. A phoney mystic, the Great La Gagge, cons unsuspecting women of their fortunes. One of his fake apparitions even causes heart att
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NAKED FURY & MURDER IN BARACOA
Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Naked Fury” by heralded mystery writer Day Keene. It’s a tale of power hungry men and dangerous women. The second novel is a murder mystery set in the steamy jungles of Cuba, “Murder in Baracoa” by Paul E. Walsh. He received a telegram of Death...
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NAKED STORM, THE, & THE MAN OUTSIDE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Naked Storm” by well-known science fiction and suspense writer C. M. Kornbluth. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “The Man Outside” by Alexander Blade.
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NEVER TOO LATE
(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro. A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves. Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...
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NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS
(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir. A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...
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NIGHT BIRDS*
(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crim
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NIGHT OF THE PROWLER*
(1962) Patrick Holt, Colette Wilde, Bill Nagy, Mitzi Rogers, Benny Lee. When the manager of a well-known racecar company is shot to death, the other company executives seem to feel their lives might
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NIGHT TRAIN FOR INVERNESS
NIGHT TRAIN FOR INVERNESS (1960) Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Valentine Dyall, Silvia Francis. Some of these little Brit thrillers of the ‘50s and ‘60s are real gems. In this nail-biting film, Wooland, an ex-con just out of jail, kidnaps his son, whom his wife has previously kept from him. Wooland and his son, along with his disgruntled girlfriend (marvelously played by Hylton) board an all-night express train. Unknown to them...
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NIGHT WAS OUR FRIEND
Ronald Howard, Michael Gough, Elizabeth Sellers, Marie Ney. Gough plays a man who was captured by jungle natives and held captive for two years. Later, after returning to civilization and his wife,
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NIGHTBEAT
(1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Hector Ross, Anne Crawford, Christine Norden, Syd James. In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force. Ross succeeds; Howard fails. Howard soon ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed.
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NIGHTSHADE & ONCE IS ENOUGH
Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is John N. Makris’ great tale of crime and murder, “Nightshade.” This is a tale of a seductress, here lovers, and her loyal pawn. This double novel’s second tale is another great tale of mystery & murder, “Once is Enough” by David Wright O’Brien. There was a gun in his hand and a corpse on the floor...
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NO DIAMONDS FOR URSULA
(1967) Dana Andrews, Jeanne Valérie, Salvo Randone, John Elliot. A master criminal in a wheelchair summons a number of other hustlers together for illicit purposes. His ace in the hole is that he holds a blackmail card over all of them. The plan is to pull off an elaborate caper and knock over a high-roller jewelry store, which houses one of the world’s most valuable sets of ancient jewels...
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NO HANDS ON THE CLOCK
(1941, Pine-Thomas) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart, Dick Purcell. Morris is a wise-cracking detective who finds a missing dame, marries her, then takes her on a trip to Reno to locate anot
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NO TIME TO KILL
(1959) John Ireland, Ellen Schwiers, Birgitta Anderssonen, Frank Sundstrom, Ralph Brown. Ireland plays a tough guy who’s been tried, convicted, and imprisoned for an arson charge he didn't commit. Once out of prison, he is bound and determined to find the real criminal and clear his name. The trail leads him to Sweden, where he encounters many dangerous twists and turns...
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NO TRACE
(1950) Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Dora Bryan. Engaging British thriller about a successful crime-writer who finds his well-healed London l
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NO WAY BACK
(1949) Terrence de Marney, Eleanor Summerfield, Jack Raine, Shirley Quentin. When an over-the-hill boxer is forced to give up his career, his life soon falls apart. After befriending a gangster’s gi
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NORMAN CONQUEST*
(1953 aka PARK PLAZA 605) Tom Conway, Eva Bartok. Conway plays title character in this British mystery that finds him up against a Nazi baron who's involved in gem smuggling. From 16mm.
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OGRE OF ATHENS, THE
(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris. This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue. A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...
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ONCE A WIDOW
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Author Lee Roberts spins a masterful tale of mystery and mayhem in “Once a Widow.” Her name was Karen, and although she still had the body of a woman half her age, the ravages of age were slowly becoming apparent...
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ONE WAY OUT
ONE WAY OUT (1955) Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos, John Bushelle. Eddie is a police official about to retire. He is horrified, however, when he finds out his own daughter is innocently mixed up with a gang of crooks. Even worse, they’re blackmailing Eddie, threatening to send her to prison for a crime she didn’t even commit if he doesn’t play along. With his career hanging in the balance, Eddie comes up with a daring plan...
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ONE YEAR LATER*
(1933, Allied) Russell Hopton, Mary Brian, George Irving, Donald Dillaway. A dying newspaper reporter interviews a woman whose husband is scheduled to be executed for a crime he did not commit! Who
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OPEN SECRET
(1948) John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Sheldon Leonard. Ireland’s GI buddy turns up missing. Before you know it, he’s framed for his pal’s murder by a gang of anti-Semitics, masquerading as a patriotic
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OPERATION 100 DOLLAR GANG—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1965, aka MANHATTAN NIGHT OF MURDER, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Monika Grimm, Peter Kuiper, Silva Solar. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Their specialty is extorting money from small business owners. Things get out of hand, though, when they murder one of the merchants. The only witness is...
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OUTSIDE THE LAW
Lon Chaney, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakeman, Ralph Lewis. Lon was famous for his dual roles, this time he delivers a dual performance as Ah Wing, a good-natured student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a vile, murderous rat who hovers over...
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PAINTED FACES*
(1929) Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver. A must-see early talkie. A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage. Another performer is tried for the crime. Brown--in a non-comed
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PANIC*
(1963) Janine Gray, Dyson Lovell, Glyn Houston. A cool movie. A London jewelry exchange is robbed. The exchange owner is shot, and his secretary knocked out. When she comes to, she finds herself with a d
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PANIQUE
(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres. Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit. When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way. Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...
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PANTHER'S CLAW, THE*
(1942, PRC) Sidney Blackmer, Lynn Starr, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson, Gerta Rogan. Interesting PRC mystery about a ruthless killer in an opera company. Who is the mysterious killer
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PAROLE INC.*
(1948) Michael O’Shea, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey, Lyle Talbot. Good crime film with O’Shea as a cop investigating parole corruption. When several dangerous criminals receive unjustified paroles, evid
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PASSENGER TO LONDON*
(1937) John Warwick, Jenny Laird, Paul Neville, Ivan Wilmot. This is a great B British crime film. A British agent, carrying important papers, is knifed to death on a passenger train. Before his mu
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PASSING STRANGER, THE
(1954) Lee Patterson, Diane Cilento, Duncan Lamont. This is a pretty engaging crime thriller about an American deserter who hides out in a roadside truck café run by a couple of British dames. He fal
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PAUL TEMPLE RETURNS*
Not Available outside the United States. (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee, Valentine Dyall. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, Temple tries to unmask a master criminal known as...
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PAUL TEMPLE'S TRIUMPH
(1950) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Jack Livesay, Andrew Leigh, Dino Galvani, Barbara Couper. A cool Temple murder mystery. A brilliant scientist is kid-napped by two gunmen. A criminal mastermind called “Zed” wants the scientist’s new formula for a laser-powered atomic missile defense system. The scientist’s daughter goes to Paul Temple to enlist his aid in finding her father. Temple and his wife are soon plunging across the British countryside, looking for clues...
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PAYOFF, THE*
(1942, PRC) Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer, Evelyn Brent, Jack LaRue. A prosecutor is mysteriously slain. Tracy is a wisecracking reporter who weaves his way into the underworld to find the kille
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PENAL CODE, THE
(1932, Monarch) Regis Toomey, Helene Cohan, Robert Ellis, Pat O’Malley. Regis is a small town boy gone bad. After serving a stretch in prison, he returns home only to be blackmailed by a bank cashier! This is a poverty row quickie, but it’s got some good moments. The big prison bust-out scene is cool...
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PERFECT CLUE, THE*
(1935, Majestic) David Manners, Skeets Gallagher, Dorothy Libaire, Betty Blythe. Libaire is the spoiled daughter of an aristocrat who flees when she discovers her father is engaged to a woman she loa
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PERFECT KILLER, THE
(1976) Lee Van Cleef, John Ireland, Carmen Cervera, Karin Well, Fernando Sancho. This is a real grimy grindhouse drive-in movie. No classic, but filled with all those low budget schlock thrills that ‘70s grindhouse fans love so much. Van Cleef is betrayed by his lover and his best friend and is sent to prison on robbery charges. He’s broken out of prison by the mob, who in turn want him to become a hitman...
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PHANTOM BROADCAST*
Ralph Forbes, Vivienne Osborne, Gail Patrick, Guinn Williams. A famous radio singer is found horribly murdered. Afterward, it's learned his singing voice had always been dubbed in by a twisted cripp
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PHANTOM IN THE HOUSE*
(1929) Ricardo Cortez, Nancy Welford, Henry B. Walthall. A woman frames her husband, an inventor, for the murder she committed. Years later after being paroled, the inventor returns from prison as a
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PHANTOM LIGHT, THE
(1935) Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Binnie Hale, Donald Calthrop. During the opening credits, a zombie-like man pulls himself through the portal of a lighthouse to the sounds of sinister themes. Harker’
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PHANTOM SHOT, THE*
(1947) John Stuart, Olga Lindo, Howard Marion-Drawford, Louise Lord. A country gentleman, widely hated by the people he knows, is murdered. This British thriller is very interesting in that the insp
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PILOT X*
(aka DEATH IN THE AIR) John Carroll, Lona Andre, John Elliot, Henry Hall. A great little mystery-horror film with slight sci-fi elements. The country is shocked when several planes are shot down by a
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PIT OF DARKNESS
(1961) William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green. Near an old, derserted bombsite, a young child discovers a man lying unconscious. When the boy awakens him, the man discovers he can’t remember anything from the past three weeks! Adding to all the mystery, he finds out that his wife’s private detective has been murdered and that his company’s safe has been opened and emptied...
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POISON PEN*
(1940) Flora Robeson, Russell Newton, Ann Todd, Geoffrey Toone. An English village is besieged by a series of horrible letters sent to the townsfolk, accusing various villagers of scandalous actions.
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PORT OF ESCAPE
(1956) Googie Withers, John McCallum, Bill Kerr, Joan Hickson, Ewan Roberts. This is a pretty good British B thriller. A couple of sailors come ashore in London looking for a good time and a few laughs before returning to their ship...
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PORT OF HATE*
(1939, Metropolitan) Polly Ann Young, Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young, Monte Blue, Frank LaRue. A couple of adventurers discover a vast black pearl bed near a remote Pacific island. When one of them
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POSTAL INSPECTOR*
Bela Lugosi, Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis. Upgrade! Our video master is from a 35mm nitrate print. There are a few splicey spots, but overall quite nice. Bela is a gangster who pulls a $3,000,00
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PRC, Vol. 10
Four Movies on Two Discs! DANGEROUS LADY (1941) Neil Hamilton. Great Action-Comedy. LADY FROM CHUNGKING (1942) Anny May Wong, Mae Clarke. TIGER FANGS (1942) Frank Buck. Jungle excitement and thrills. A YANK IN LIBYA (1942) Walter Woolf King, Joan Woodbury. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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PRC, Vol. 8
HOLD THAT WOMAN (1940) James Dunn, Frances Gifford; CRIMINALS WITHIN (1941) Eric Linden, Ann Doran; CAUGHT IN THE ACT (1941) Henry Armetta, Iris Meredith; SECRET EVIDENCE (1941) Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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PRC, Vol. 9
MEN OF SAN QUENTIN (1942) J. A. Hughes, Eleanor Stewart; SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER (1944) Frank Jenks, Iris Adrian; PHANTOM OF 42 STREET (1945) Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge; UNTAMED FURY (1947) Steve Pendleton, Mikel Conrad. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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PRELUDE TO MURDER
Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here is another classic tale of mystery, crime, love, and death, “Prelude to Murder,” by longtime
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PRICE OF SILENCE, THE
(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Maya Koumani, Terence Alexander, Mary Clare, Victor Brooks. Jackson plays a recently-released-from-prison convict who has trouble finding work. He changes name and...
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PRINCIPAL PICTURES, Vol. 1
RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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PRISON MUTINY (aka You Can't Beat the Law)*
Monogram, aka YOU CAN”T BEAT THE LAW - Edward Norris, Joan Woodbury, Jack LaRue, Milburn Stone, Kenneth Harlan. Norris is good as a wild playboy who is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn’t commit
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PRISON SHADOWS
(1936, Mercury) Eddie Nugent, Lucille Lund, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor. A fighter is convicted of manslaughter for killing his opponent with a punch that landed after the bell. After he's paroled the same thing happens again...
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PSYCHO CIRCUS—Anamorphic Widescreen Ed.
(1966) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski. The plot begins with a botched heist that ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer...
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PSYCHOUT FOR MURDER
(1969) Adrienne Larussa, Rossano Brazi, Nino Castelnuovo, Idelma Carlo. A wonderful, almost forgotten giallo classic. Larussa (Beatrice Cenci) is tops as a gorgeous, wealthy young heiress who is tricked by her lover (a really slimy no-good so and so) into having sex inside a seedy brothel. After she is caught in a police raid (as arranged by her lover for purposes of blackmail) she’s tossed into a mental institution by her family so that all concerned can be spared the “scandal.” However, when she finally gets out of the booby-hatch—look out!
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PUBLIC AFFAIR, A
(1962) Myron McCormick, Edward Binns, Judson Pratt, Grace Lee Whitney, Harry Carey, Jr., Paul Birch. Here’s a real low budget drive-in-style obscurity. American-made, too. Interesting film about th
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PURITAN PICTURES, Vol. 2
SUICIDE SQUAD (1935) Norman Foster, Joyce Compton; THE RECKLESS WAY (1936) Kane Richmond, Marion Nixon; LIGHTNIN’ BILL CARSON (1936) Tim McCoy, Lois January; SPECIAL AGENT K-7 (1937) Walter McGrail, Irving Pichel. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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PUZZLE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Senta Berger, Luc Merenda, Umberto Orsini, Anita Strindberg, Bruno Corazzari. This is a very well-made Euro-thriller with Merenda playing a bewildered man who’s lost his memory as the result of a car crash...
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QUICKSAND*
(1950) Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, Jeanne Cagney. An excellent film noir tale of a garage mechanic who's seemingly innocent and minor mistakes create a domino effect with an end result of crime and blackmai
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QUIET PLACE TO KILL, A*
(1970) Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Davila, Alberto Dalbes. Baker goes to her ex-husband’s estate to recover from injuries received in a car crash. The main problem is that the ex-hubby is now mar
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QUIET WOMAN, THE
(1951) Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour, John Horsley, directed by John Gilling. Hylton plays a pretty British lass who takes over a lonely, oceanside pub and boarding house. Much to her surprise, she discovers her inn is...
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RACETRACK MURDERS, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain by a rival horse owner. Soon jockeys are being murdered by a mysterious...
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RACKETEER, THE*
(1929) Carole Lombard, Robert Armstrong, Roland Drew, Paul Hurst. Good early crime drama with gangster Armstrong helping to put Lombard’s alcoholic violinist boyfriend onto the road of recovery. Out of...
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RADIO CAB MURDER*
Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris, Jack Allen. A remarkably well-done British thriller. A man is found murdered in a car! The police then enlist the aid of an ex-con who infiltrates the gang responsible. An i
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REPUBLIC PICTURES, Vol. 4
A MAN BETRAYED (1936) Eddie Nugent, Lloyd Hughes; RHYTHM IN THE CLOUDS (1937) Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull; IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1937) Alan Baxter; THE GREAT FLAMARION (1946) Eric Von Stroheim, Dan Duryea. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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RESCUE SQUAD
(1935, Mayfair) Ralph Forbes, Verna Hillie, Leon Ames, Frank Leigh, Kathryn Stokes. There’s an arsonist on the loose! Forbes is a tough firefighter in this likable poverty row movie. He and his pal
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RETURN OF A STRANGER
(1961) John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton. A young couple movies into a new house. The wife notices that a strange man is peering in at them from outside in the middle of the n
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RETURN OF BULLDOG DRUMMOND, THE
(1934) Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Francis L. Sullivan, Claud Allister, Joyce Kennedy. Hugh Drummond’s arch rival, Carl Peterson, is at it again. This time, disguised as a priest, he is trying to st
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RETURN OF THE FROG
(1938, aka NOBODY HOME) Gordon Harker,Hartley Power,Rene Ray, Una O'COnner, Cyril Smith. A somewhat obscure British Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by Scotland Yard. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks him down and kills him anyway, in spite of the Yard's efforts. Who really is...
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RIDER IN BLUE
(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm. Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman. The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...
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RING AROUND THE MOON*
(1936, Chesterfield) Donald Cook, Ann Doran, Erin Moore, Doug Fowley. Cook is a high-flying newspaperman who falls into an engagement to a lady he does not love. Lots of poverty row intrigue follows
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RINGER, THE—Special 2-Disc Edition
(1964, aka DER HEXER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Carl Lange, Eddi Arent. The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up...
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RIVERSIDE MURDER, THE*
(1935) Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn, Alastair Sim, Ian Fleming. A gentleman is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime. A young detective weaves his way through danger and an intricate se
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ROGUES GALLERY
(1944) Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker. Reporters Jenks and Raymond try to get an interview with the head of a big foundation regarding a revolutionary new listening device. They soon end up at the lab of the real inventor, H. B. Warner...
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ROME EXPRESS
(1932) Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop, Cedric Hardwicke. Like any good train murder mystery, there is an assortment of interesting characters, each seemingly with something to hide...
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ROPE AROUND THE NECK
(1964) Louis Albressier, Estella Blain, Hubert Deschamps, Jean Daniel. A man plots to bump off his wife. He travels away from home, setting up a seemingly air tight alibi. He then returns in the mi
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RYGSECK MYSTERY, THE
(1960) Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Leo Riuttu. This is a good old-fashioned closed room murder mystery. The world famous Lieutenant Palmu is brought in to investigate when a much-despised millionaire playboy is found dead in his interior pool—murdered. Who is the killer? There are some nice tongue-in-cheek moments thrown into this well-made murder thriller...
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SACK AMUSEMENTS, Vol. 1
THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER (1939) Nina McKinney, Jack Carter; BRONZE BUCKAROO (1939) Herb Jeffreys, Spencer Williams; GANG WAR (1940) Ralph Cooper, Gladys Snyder. SON OF INGAGI (1940) Zach Williams, Laura Bowman; Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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SALUTE THE TOFF
(1951) John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Rogers. The Toff was a well-known, upper crust British detective character who appeared in magazines, books, and films, dating back to the early 1930s. In this, his first motion appearance, he is well-played by John Bentley, who played him in both Toff films. In this fast-moving mystery, a man walks out of a nightclub onto a darkened street. Moments later he is knifed in the back...
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SARATOGA MANTRAP & CLASSIFICATION: HOMICIDE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Saratoga Mantrap” by Dexter St. Claire. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “Classification: Homicide” by another well-known mystery writer, Jonathan Craig.
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SCARLET CAR, THE
(1917) Lon Chaney, Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Sam DeGrasse. Lon plays a bank cashier who discovers embezzling and confronts the criminals with the evidence. A bizarre twist of events follows an
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SCARLET STREET
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Directed by Fritz Lang. Considered one of the greatest pieces of film noir cinema ever made. Robinson, in one of his best performances, plays Chris Cross, a cashier who's just been given his gold watch at retirement. As fate would have it, he runs into a gorgeous woman (Fontaine) on the way home who soon has him wrapped around her finger...
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SCARLET WEB, THE
(1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival. What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be. Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman...
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SCHOOL OF FEAR—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Arthur Richelmann, Karin Hübner. This film plays, in places, like an Edgar Wallace film; in other places like a seedy JD movie filled with troubled youths. At a boarding school for boys a firebrand student goes missing. It’s theorized he may have met with foul play. When his rich father also goes missing...
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SCOTLAND YARD COMMANDS
(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne. Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway. The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him. Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...
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SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1965) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards, Alan J. Smith. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, seedy, sleazy, el-cheapo exploitation-crime films what were made in the early-to-mid ‘60s. The Seventh Commandment, Shanty Tramp, The Sadist, and Commonlaw Wife are other prime examples...
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SCREAM STREET & MURDER MAKES THE CORPSE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery. Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack… This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory.
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SEALED LIPS
(1954) Fernando Soler, Isabella Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Soler is a kindly priest in a small village. He has a dark secret, though, and a local shopkeeper demands money from him. Late one night
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SECOND WOMAN, THE*
Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton. A young woman dies accidentally, and her fiancee is tormented by her father and his own feelings. Was it really an accident? or was it...(gasp!)...murder!
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SECRET EVIDENCE*
PRC - Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Ward McTaggart, Kenneth Harlan, Donald Curtis. When Reynolds becomes engaged to the local DA, played by Quigley, her former boyfriend—a gangster—shows up.
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SECRET FLIGHT
(1946) Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, Ernest Jay. Grand WWII thriller about British scientists and their efforts to make the first radar system. Would they get it done in time for the epic air ba
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SECRET OF THE BLACK TRUNK
(1962) Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger, Hans Reiser, Chris Howland, Helga Sommerfeld, Leonard Steckel, Peter Carsten. The chilling tale of a series of grisly murders at a famed English Hotel in London's Soho district. The killer uses a sharp knife to knock off the hotel guests. Hansen, a slick detective, is called in...
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SECRET OF THE BLACK WIDOW, THE
(1963, Upgraded 11/7/21) O. W. Fischer, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinksi, Werner Peters, Eddi Arent. The London police are perplexed by three horrible murders. Each victim has been killed by a “black widow” bullet. Bodies start piling up before a slick reporter begins to figure things...
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SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1962, Upgraded 10/25/21) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. A mysterious criminal gang relocates to jolly old London. Their plan? To extort as much money as they can from various British elders. There's murder involved...
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SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE
(1946) Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Jack Raine, Tamara Desni, Beatrice Varley. This film—the first Paul Temple movie—is a good one. Temple is a spirited novelist and amateur sleuth. After teaming up with an energetic female reporter, they investigate a gang of diamond thieves that Temple suspects is behind the death of the reporter’s policeman brother...
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SENSATION HUNTERS*
(1933) Arline Judge, Preston Foster. Marion Burns, Kenneth McKenna. A couple of nightclub singers head for the Orient. They get involved with two American guys, after which the sparks really fly. Really a
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SEVEN DOORS TO DEATH
(1941, PRC) Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Gregory Gay. In a pitch black apartment a girl screams. There’s a gunshot, then a body hits the floor. Moments later the girl snags a ride from an unsuspecting young fellow...
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SEVEN FACES OF BANNAI TARAO, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, THE
(1956) Chiezo Kataoka, Kogiku Hanayagi, Junko Ataka, Yuriko Tashiro. If you like last year’s Foul Play, you’ll love this hard-hitting Japanese crime thriller. Set in modern times, a tough detective g
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SEVEN SINNERS
(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy. This is an excellent Gaumont thriller. Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France. During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager. When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...
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SEVEN TIMES SEVEN
(1968) Lionel Stander, Gordon Mitchell, Gastone Moschin, Erika Blanc, Terry-Thomas, Adolfo Celi, Gordon Mitchell. If you like caper films, this is a good one, similar to Who’s Minding the Mint. A group of prisoners execute a brilliant plan of escaping from prison to commit an elaborate robbery, but then return to their cells before anyone knows they’re missing...
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SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, THE
(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter. What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable. A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident. He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...
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SHADOW LAUGHS, THE*
(1933, Invincible) Hal Skelly, Rose Hobart, Harry Morey, Walter Fenner. A bank cashier is pressured by a mysterious criminal to repay his gambling debts. The shadowy criminal kills a bank guard after the cashier takes
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SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX*
Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Mulhall. Lon is an underworld crime boss and nightclub owner. After pulling a bank heist, Lon murders one of his thugs who appears to be skipping town with the loot; but the mo
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SHADOW STRIKES, THE*
Rod LaRoque, Lynn Anders. The Shadow, Lamont Cranston, sets out to solve a mysterious killing at a gloomy mansion filled with suspects. Which one of them is the killer? The Shadow knows. From 16mm
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SHADOW, THE: HOUSE OF MYSTERY
(1932) James Durkin, Geneva Mitchell, Leyland Hodgson, Wilfred Lucas. What a rarity! This is one of the ultra-rare early ‘30s Shadow shorts that collectors have been after for years. The story begi
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SHADOWS ON THE STAIRS
(1941, Warner Bros) Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Turhan Bey, Bruce Lester, Heather Angel. A creepy boarding house is the setting for this slickly-made Warner Brothers thriller where tenants in the house seem to be involved in nefarious criminal activities and—worst of all—murder...
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SHADOWS OVER SHANGHAI
(1937 Grand National) James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Robert Barrat, Linda Gray. A flyer, who’s carrying a valuable golden amulet, is shot down over China by a Russian agent who also wants the amulet (it’s
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SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER*
(1944, PRC) Frank Jenks, Iris Adrian, Jack, Raymond, Doug Fowley. A pretty decent B crime film with an occasional laugh. A female bail-bond broker and her pal try to clear a man who’s accused of embe
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SHAKEDOWN, THE
(1960) Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Robert Beatty. This is a great British crime film. Morgan gets out of the slammer and sets up what seems to be a legitimate modeling agency. Back of it all, though, is a blackmail operation...
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DEADLY NECKLACE*
Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Thorley Walters. It's Holmes vs. Moriarty once again as the evil doctor goes after a valuable necklace. This is a well-polished German production that was put together
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON*
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey. The evil Professor Moriarty attempts to steal a secret military weapon in what is considered by many to be the best of the “modern” Holmes fil
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SHIP OF THE DEAD
(1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, Alf Marholm. Buckholz gives the performance of his life as a human castoff, in international limbo, because of the loss of his passport. He is conned into taking a job on a tramp steamer filled with misfits, smugglers, and murderers. Soon after realizing his plight, he and his pal discover the ship’s cargo isn’t exactly what it’s purported to be...
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SHOCK (1946) and THE HAT BOX MYSTERY (1947)*
A great mystery double bill! First thriller is SHOCK (1946, Fox) with Vincent Price and Lynn Bari. A woman goes into catatonic shock after seeing a brutal murder. When she comes to, she discovers...
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SIGN OF FOUR, THE
(1932, Upgraded 8/18/21) Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson. Wontner's third Sherlock Holmes film. A beautiful but troubled young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for protection from an escaped killer. Also at play is a missing treasure. Things take a turn for the worse when...
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SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND, THE
THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND (1934) John Longden, Charlotte Francis, Constance Worth, John Warwick, John Pickard. This forgotten Aussie-British crime-drama has Todd Slaughter regular Warwick released from prison after a twenty-year stretch for a killing he didn’t commit. On his mind—revenge against the clergyman who stole those years by not clearing his name. This film deals with murder, seduction, out of wedlock pregnancy, and betrayal. Worth is priceless as the seductive hussy who ruins the lives of those around her. From 16mm.
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SILENT PASSENGER, THE*
(1935) John Loder, Donald Wolfitt. A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who’s the cold-blooded killer? Definitely
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SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1963) Anthony Newley, Robert Stephens, Julia Foster. Wow… Newley is brilliant as Sammy Lee, a street hustler and strip club host who finds himself on the short end of life more often than not. The plot has Sammy frantically trying to raise 300 pounds to pay off a debt to a mysterious personage known only as "Connor". Connor’s ruffians are sent to track Sammy down when Sammy fails to pay...
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SMOKESCREEN
(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Glynn Edwards, Sam Kydd. What a cool movie this turned out to be (7.0 on IMDB). In the opening moments of the film, a blazing car goes crashing over a seaside cliff, plunging into the murky waters below and killing its driver. The deceased had been insured for 100,000 pounds...
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SOMEBODY WANTS YOU DEAD & THE BLACK KEY
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Robert Moore Williams’ “Somebody Wants You Dead” is our first electric tale of murder and mayhem. This double novel’s second tale is another great thriller, “The Black Key” by M. Scott Michel. It was a dream that held the secret to a killer’s identity...
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SOMEONE AT THE DOOR
Noah Beery, Ailene Marson, Billy Milton, John Erwin. An impoverished pair of siblings (brother and sister) take residence in their childhood home, which is a somewhat creepy, dilapidated old country estate. They concoct the idea of faking the sister's murder in order to launch the brother's career as a journalist. Right… Things get very complicated when...
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SOUL OF THE SLUMS
(1931) William Collier, Jr., Blanche Mehaffey, Walter Long, James Bradbury, Jr. Collier finishes a stretch in the big house with only one thing in mind—revenge. Right after he leaves prison, he buy
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SPANIARD'S CURSE, THE
(1958) Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Susan Beaumont. Cool murder mystery involving a wrongly convicted man who’s sentenced to death for a murder he didn’t commit. He invokes a curse on all involved
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SPECIAL AGENT K-7
(1937) Walter McGrail, Irving Pichel, Queenie Smith, Donald Reed. A fine poverty row thriller. Agent K-7 finds himself knee-deep in a murder mystery at a posh nightclub run by a mobster. Pichel is great a
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SQUEAKER, THE—Special 2-Disc Edition
(1963, aka DER ZINKER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günter Pfitzmann, Eddi Arent. In this excellent Edgar Wallace thriller, Scotland Yard investigates a series of grisly slayings in which the victims have died from the poison of a venomous snake. Is it a snake, or is it something far more sinister...
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STAKEOUT
(1962) Bing Russell, Bill Hale, Eve Brent. Good film about an ex-con and his boy who can't find work because of dad’s criminal record. This is a great "little" film that explores the despair of an ex-con trying...
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STAKEOUT—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1958) Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine, Kin Sugai. Two Tokyo cops board a train. Their assignment is to find the escaped killer...
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STAR REPORTER*
(1939) Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, Wallace Clark, Clay Clement. Hull uses the power of his newspaper to drive crooked politicians out of office. He targets the DA when he learns that he is holding back
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STARK FEAR*
Beverly Garland, Skip Homeier, Kenneth Toby, Hannah Stone. This is a dark, brooding, sometimes gripping, sometimes brutal tale of a sadistic man who mentally tortures his wife and eventually plans t
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STOLEN IDENTITY
(1953) Francis Lederer, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, produced by Turhan Bey. This taut thriller has Lederer as an insanely jealous pianist who plots to murder his wife’s lover. A taxi-driver is giving t
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STRANGE COUNTESS, THE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1961, Upgraded 10/22/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Rudolf Fernau, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, Fritz Rasp. A beautiful young girl is almost murdered. Fuchsberger is the slick inspector who tries to sort things out. No explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered...
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STRANGE ILLUSION
(1945, Upgraded 10/15/21) James Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers. Edgar Ulmer's best PRC next to Detour. A boy dreams his dad dies and his mom becomes prey to a con-man, and it all comes true! A well-crafted thriller that...
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STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE —Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1963, English Language, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg. Finally, a beautiful widescreen English edition of this classic Krimi horror thriller. A hooded maniac is on the loose...
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STREAMLINE EXPRESS
(1935, Mascot) Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable, Ralph Forbes, Esther Ralston. A group of people become entangled in a web of intrigue on board a super-duper streamline passenger train, streaking across the countryside. On board are a crook, a stage director, an actress and a number of other characters...
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STUDY IN SCARLET, A*
(1933) Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart. A mysterious London society collects the assets of its deceased members and divides them amongst themselves. When members start dropping like...
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SUBWAY IN THE SKY—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1958) Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder, Katherine Kath. Johnson went to England to film this story of a military doctor who’s falsely accused of illegal drug dealing...
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SUDDENLY—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1954) Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates, James Gleason, Paul Frees. There are some high quality 4:3 video editions of this film around, but we feel our 16:9 anamorphic edition is the best on the market. This is a minor film noir classic! Sinatra and his pals are hired assassins who...
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SUNSET MURDER CASE, THE*
(1938, Grand National) Sally Rand, Reed Hadley, Dennis Moore, Paul Sutton. Gangsters knock off Sally’s dad. With the help of the DA, she goes undercover and poses as a stripper to infiltrate the nig
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SWAMP WOMEN
(1956) Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor, Mike Connors, Carole Mathews, Ed Nelson. A policewoman poses as a gun moll to get in with prisoners breaking out. Their escape leads to a fortune in diamonds in the wilds...
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SWING IT PROFESSOR*
(1937, Grand National) Pinky Tomlin, Maxine Doyle, Henry Roquemore, Aileen Pringle. Pinky loses his job as a music professor because of his hatred of barbaric swing music. He eventually ends up at a
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TEN LITTLE INDIANS
(1959) Nina Foch, Barry Jones, Romney Brent. A group of shady people come to an eerie island mansion. Upon arriving, a recorded phonograph message accuses them of certain crimes that they were never
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THE STRANGER—35mm Edition
(1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale. Robinson is excellent as the soft-spoken investigator, Mr. Wilson of the War Crimes Commission. He is searching for the notorious Franz Kindler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, who is hiding, incognito, in plain sight. Robinson releases one of Kindler's former cronies in an effort to track down his target, but he is murdered before he...
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THEY ALL RAN AWAY & BACKFIRE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is Edward Ronns' great tale, “They All Ran Away” This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “Backfire” by Floyd Mahannah...
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THEY MADE ME A KILLER*
(1946) Robert Lowery, Lola Lane, Barbara Britton, Frank Albertson. An Innocent guy’s in the wrong place at the time of a big heist...
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THIRD VISITOR, THE
THE THIRD VISITOR (1951) Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton, Hubert Gregg, Colin Gordon, Karel Stepanek, Eleanor Summerfield. Stepanek plays a snobbish gent living in the English countryside who is visited by various people, including a tough gangster and a mysterious female, all in the black of the night. The next morning, Stepanek’s nearly unrecognizable body (bludgeoned horribly in the face) is found by the cops, headed by a persistent British inspector...
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THREE BLONDES IN HIS LIFE*
Jock Mahoney, Greta Thyssen, Tony Dexter, Valerie Porter, Jesse White. Tough insurance investigator Mahoney goes to LA to look into the murder of a fellow investigator. It's found that the murdered
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THREE STEPS IN THE DARK
(1953) Greta Gynt, John Van Eyssen, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson, Nicholas Hannen. This is a short and sweet British drawing room murder mystery. It’s got a nice cast with two horror veterans, Gynt (Human Monster) and Van Eyssen (Horror of Dracula). Relatives gather at their rich elderly Uncle’s estate to listen to details of his will and his demands of them...
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THREE STEPS NORTH*
(1951) Lloyd Bridges, William Tubbs, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi. After a long stretch in the slammer, Bridges—who was stationed in Italy during the war—discovers that loot he hid has completely vanis
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TIFFANY PRODUCTIONS, Vol. 2
PARTY GIRL (1930) Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Judith Barrie; WINGS OF ADVENTURE (1930) Rex Lease; MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (1931) Hale Hamilton; HOTEL CONTINENTAL (1932) Theodore Von Eltz. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...
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TIME FOR MURDER, A
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Milton Ozaki is in fine form with his classic thriller, “A Time for Murder.” A phone call early Monday morning was hardly anything exciting for Private Detective Max Keene; but when an attractive dame on the other end offered a great deal on a case of hard-to-find cheap booze, Keene could hardly refuse...
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TIME LOCK
(1957, Upgraded 12/20/21) Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Lee Patterson, Vincent Winters, Robert Ayres, Alan Gifford, Sean Connery. A banker's son is accidently locked in an air-tight vault that's not set to open again for over 60 hours. The problem is that the boy has, at most, ten hours of oxygen left. It's a life-and-death race against time to save the boy's life in this great British thriller...
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TOMORROW WE LIVE*
PRC - Ricardo Cortez, Jean Parker, Emmett Lynn, William Marshall, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Cortez is great doing what he does best, playing a slimy racketeer. Parker plays a college dropout who f
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE
Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Too Hot to Handle” is a finely woven tale of mystery and murder from Frank B. Presnell. “Her voice was taunting… She whipped her open palm against the side of my face. It jarred my mouth open. She slammed me with her other hand, and got ready to repeat with the first.” That was Ed Barlow’s payoff when he searched luscious Linda Cameron’s apartment for stray playboys...
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TOO LATE FOR TEARS—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1949 aka KILLER BAIT) Lizabeth Scott, Don Defoe, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy. Scott turns in one of the best “femme fatale” performances of all time as she portrays a scheming woman who eliminates everyone in her way as she tries to...
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TOO LATE FOR TEARS—Original Full Screen Edition
(1949 aka KILLER BAIT) Lizabeth Scott, Don Defoe, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy. Scott turns in one of the best “femme fatale” performances of all time as she portrays a scheming woman who eliminates everyone in her way as she porltrays a scheming woman who eliminates...
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TRAIN ROBBERY CONFIDENTIAL
(1962) Reginaldo Faria, Eliezer Gomez, Atila Lorio, Grande Otelo. This is an intricate, very exciting Euro-thriller about six armed men who dynamite a train on the Central Brazil Railway, robbing it
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TRAITOR'S GATE—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition
(1964) Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger, Catherine Schell, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. There’s a plot afoot to steal the Crown Jewels! It all starts when a corrupt businessman breaks a two-bit crook out of Dartmoor prison. Why?...
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TRAPPED
(1949) Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway. This is probably the best video copy of this film-noir thriller on the market today. It was transferred from a beautiful 16mm original print. This is a dark, gritty, sometimes sleazy little B-film. Most of it takes place during a depressing, somewhat creepy night in a big city. Bridges is great as a prison convict given a chance to redeem himself on the outside by helping to break up a counterfeiting ring...
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TRAPPED BY FEAR*
(1960) Jean Paul Belmondo, Alexandra Stewart, Claude Brasseur, Eva Damien. This is a very good Belmondo entry about two vets who meet up later in life. Jean Paul is a reporter who bumps into his old
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TROMBA THE TIGER MAN
(1949) Rene Deltgen, Hilde Weissner, and Gustav Knuth. Deltgren is great as the title character,Tromba, who has a bizarre circus tiger act. The secret to his act's success is his actual use of hypnos
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TWIN HUSBANDS*
Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion, only to be told that he is someone else. His “wife” and personal se
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ULTIMATE THRILL, THE
THE ULTIMATE THRILL (1974) Barry Brown, Britt Ekland, Eric Braeden, John Davis Chandler, Michael Blodgett. In its own way, this is a pretty cool movie. Braeden is amazing as a smooth-talking but ruthless businessman whose favorite thrill is tracking down and killing the men who have fallen for his beautiful wife, played by sex-kitten Britt Ekland...
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UNFORGOTTEN CRIME*
(1942) Dennis O’Keefe, Ruth Terry, Gloria Dickson, Roman Bohnen, George E. Stone. O’Keefe is a radio drama ad agency guy who sets up a radio contest to find an old safecracker, the exploits of whom the...
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UNSTOPPABLE MAN, THE
(1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett, Lois Maxwell, Denis Gilmore. An underrated British thriller. Mitchell is a rich businessman whose son is kidnapped. Naturally, there’s a huge
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UP IN THE AIR*
Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Marjorie Reynolds, Tris Coffin, Lorna Gray, Gordon Jones. One of the slickest looking Monogram films you'll ever see. A murder is committed at a radio station. Frank
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UPTURNED GLASS, THE
(1947) James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Henry Oscar. A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity. Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself. When a death occurs...
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VENGEANCE IS MINE
(1949) Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Dyall plays a bitter ex-con out to gain revenge on his former business partner who framed him. Then he gets bad medical news—he has only six months to live...
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VENGEANCE*
(1937) Lyle Talbot, Wendy Barrie, Eddie Acuff. Lyle’s an ex-cop who turns to crime. Aka What Price Vengeance. 16mm
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VILLIER'S DIAMOND, THE
THE VILLIER’S DIAMOND (1938) Edward Ashley, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Birch, Liam Gaffney, Bill Shine. Early Evelyn Ankers vehicle about a thief who arrives at the home of wealthy businessman to collect a debt owed him for stealing the priceless Villiers Diamond for the businessman. However, when the thief arrives, the businessman...
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VIOLENT ONES, THE & HIGH HEEL HOMICIDE
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels. The first novel is Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt’s, “The Violent Ones.” This double novel’s second tale is “High Heel Homicide” by Frederick C. Davis. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.
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VOICE FROM THE VOID & THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER
Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 430 pages or more of whodunit thrills. Famed mystery writer William Le Queux’s “The Voice from the Void” is our first tale of mystery and murder. There was a dead body in the woods! Our second novel is another classic thriller, J. S. Fletcher’s “The Middle Temple Murder.” There had been a strange death in merry old London...
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VOICE OF MERRILL, THE*
(1952) Valerie Hobson, Edward Underdown, James Robertson Justice, Henry Kendall. This is a great British thriller boasting an intricate plot line filled with intrigue. Three men are suspected of a horrible...
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WALK-IN DOUBLE FEATURE #7
THE CHASE (1946, United Artists) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan. Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as overdressed psychos. PLUS: SHOCK (1946, Fox) Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore. A woman goes into catatonic shock after seeing a brutal murder. When she comes to, she discovers her doctor is the killer!
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WAY OUT, THE*
(1956) Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman, John Bentley. A tense crime drama with Nelson as a fugitive involved with the barroom killing of a bookie. An exciting chase sequence is the film's highlight. Part of th
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WET ASPHALT
(1958, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe, Inge Meysel, directed by Frank Wisbar. Buchholz is released from prison six months early. Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker. Things get sticky when...
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WETBACKS*
(1956) Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates, John Hoyt, Barton MacLane. The script is a little flaky, but a great cast helps out this exciting B thriller about a down-on-his-luck fisherman who is...
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WHAT HAPPENED THEN?
(1934) Richard Bird, Lorna Hubbard, Geoffrey Wardwell, George Zucco, Francis L. Sullivan. A young man quarrels with his Uncle about the girl he wants to marry. The uncle threatens to disinherit him. The next morning the uncle turns up dead—his throat cut! In an engaging courtroom scene, the nephew is tried for murder. But if the nephew isn’t guilty, then who is the killer?...
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WHAT PRICE CRIME*
(1935, Beacon) Charles Starrett, Noel Madison, Virginia Cherrill, Charles Delaney. A G-man investigates the activities of a crooked boxing promoter and nightclub owner. Things become dangerously co
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WHISPERING CITY*
Paul Lukas, Mary anderson, Helmut Dantine. A female reporter has info that lays suspicion upon a well known patron of the arts who may have murdered a young girl many years before. He makes several at
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WHISTLE, THE
(1921) William S. Hart, Frank Brownlee, Myrtle Stedman. Bill is a mill worker who urges his boss to make necessary safety changes. His boss ignores him. As luck would have it, Bill's son is killed in a
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WHITE FIRE
(1953) Scott Brady, Mary Castle, John Blythe, Gabrielle Brune, Colin Tapley, Lloyd Lamble, Ferdy Mayne. An American arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets a beautiful night-club entertainer and part-time smuggler, who aids him in his quest to prove the innocence of his brother...
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WHITE SPIDER, THE
(1963) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Paul Klinger. One of the most sought-after Edgar Wallace-style films. A man dies in a blazing car crash. His widow comes under suspicion by a life insurance company, which had just raised the payout in the event of his death. But there is something far more sinister afoot, and murder soon...
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WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS?
(1941) Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Raymond Rouleau, Robert Le Vigan. A fascinating film with a wonderful music score. It’s Christmas Eve in a snow-covered mountain community. The children are just getting out of school when a darkly-clad baron returns to his nearby chateau after a ten-year absence. He is in hiding because of leprosy. Meanwhile, a mysterious intruder attacks a local priest while attempting to steal a sacred ring from the church...
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WHY MUST I DIE?*
(1960) Terry Moore, Debra Paget, Bert Freed, Juli Redding. Padget commits murder. Moore is arrested instead, then tried and sentenced to die. This engaging crime thriller takes you right through Terry’s tri
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WILD OATS & MAKE WAY FOR MURDER
Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Wild Oats” by veteran crime writer Harry Whittington. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “Make Way For Murder” by another well-known mystery writer, A. A. Marcus.
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WINDOW AT THE WHITE CAT & THE MAN IN LOWER TEN
Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Window at the White Cat” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, penned by that top of the line mystery writer, Mary Roberts Rinehart. The second novel is another Mary Roberts Rinehart thriller, “The Man in Lower Ten,” which is loaded with two sets of original illustrations...
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WITNESS IN THE DARK*
Nigel Green, Patricia Dainton, Conrad Phillips, Madge Ryan. A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the sta
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WIVES UNDER SUSPICION
(1937, Universal) Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore, Ralph Morgan, William Lundigan. A slick Universal crime film about an overly tough DA (played marvelously by William) who stops at nothing to get a conviction on an accused murderer who has killed his unfaithful wife. Then, in a cruel turn of events...
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WOMAN FROM CHINA, THE
(1930) Julie Suedo, Gibb McLaughlin, Frances Cuyler, Tony Wylde, Byron Webber, Kiyoshi Takase. A beautiful Chinese maiden (who could easily pass for white) enters into a more or less “arranged” marriage with an older, wealthy Dutch businessman. The marriage was set up by a sinister Chinese racketeer, who is to receive half the inheritance after the murder of her husband...
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WOMAN IN BROWN
(1948) Conrad Nagel, Fritz Kortner, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Van Zandt. A wealthy Hungarian baron discovers vast underground pools of oil in his area. Unfortunately they’re underneath lands owned by villagers. He buys up many of the properties, but when there are a few holdouts, he manages to have them arrested for the slaying of a woman who, in reality, took her own life...
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WRONG ROAD, THE
Lionel Atwill, Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack. $100,000 is embezzled by two kids! Early Republic mystery/suspenser has Atwill steering these two J.D.'s toward the right side of the law. From 16mm.
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YELLOWSTONE
YELLOWSTONE (1936, Universal) Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Andy Devine, Alan Hale, Ralph Morgan, Paul Fix. Enjoyable Universal murder mystery romp set in the great outdoors. An ex-con is murdered inside Yellowstone National Park while a bank robber's son is scouring the landscape for the loot...
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YOUNG DYNAMITE
(1937, Ambassador) Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Charlotte Henry, Dave Sharpe, Carleton Young. When a lawyer and a watchman are killed by thugs, state troopers Kane and Dave take off after the killer
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