(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...

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.

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... 

(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...

(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...

(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...

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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

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...

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...

(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...

(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...

 (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...

(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...

(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...