(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...

(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...

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...

(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...

(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

(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...

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...

(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...