(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...

(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...

(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...

(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...

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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...