(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...

(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.  

(1931) 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...

(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...

(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...

(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... 

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...

(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 extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels.  The first novel is “Fury on Sunday” by Richard Matheson.  The second novel is “The Agony Column” by heralded mystery author, Earl Derr Biggers. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

GANG MOLL by Albert L. Quandt & TIP YOUR HAT TO DEATH by H. B. Hickey 

(1938 aka THE PHANTOM STRIKES, Upgraded 11/28/21) Sonnie Hale, Wilfred Lawson, Louise Henry. A fairly obscure Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him...

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Spencer Teakle, Felicity Young, Martin Benson, Hugh Latimer, Dorinda Stevens, Dawn Brooks.  A couple of burglars (one old, one young) crack the safe in a jewelry shop, but just as they’re making their getaway they’re attacked by rival gangsters.  The young one manages to escape...