(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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

(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

(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...

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... 

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

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.

(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...

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...