(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...

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...

(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... 

(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...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Osvaldo Genazzani, Nieves Navarro.  Lassander plays the wife of a struggling businessman whose finances are at the breaking point.  She soon finds herself the blackmail victim...

(1931, Updated 4-10-25) 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...

(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.  

(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...

(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...

(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...

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...  

(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...