(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

(1965) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards, Alan J. Smith. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, seedy, sleazy, el-cheapo exploitation-crime films what were made in the early-to-mid ‘60s.  The Seventh Commandment, Shanty Tramp, The Sadist, and Commonlaw Wife are other prime examples...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery.  Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack…  This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory. 

(1954) Fernando Soler, Isabella Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Soler is a kindly priest in a small village. He has a dark secret, though, and a local shopkeeper demands money from him. Late one night

(1962) Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger, Hans Reiser, Chris Howland, Helga Sommerfeld, Leonard Steckel, Peter Carsten. The chilling tale of a series of grisly murders at a famed English Hotel in London's Soho district. The killer uses a sharp knife to knock off the hotel guests.  Hansen, a slick detective, is called in...

(1963, Upgraded 11/7/21) O. W. Fischer, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinksi, Werner Peters, Eddi Arent.  The London police are perplexed by three horrible murders. Each victim has been killed by a “black widow” bullet.  Bodies start piling up before a slick reporter begins to figure things...

(1962, Upgraded 10/25/21) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. A mysterious criminal gang relocates to jolly old London.  Their plan?  To extort as much money as they can from various British elders.  There's murder involved...

(1946) Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Jack Raine, Tamara Desni, Beatrice Varley.  This film—the first Paul Temple movie—is a good one.  Temple is a spirited novelist and amateur sleuth.  After teaming up with an energetic female reporter, they investigate a gang of diamond thieves that Temple suspects is behind the death of the reporter’s policeman brother...

(1941, PRC) Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Gregory Gay.  In a pitch black apartment a girl screams.  There’s a gunshot, then a body hits the floor.  Moments later the girl snags a ride from an unsuspecting young fellow...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy.  This is an excellent Gaumont thriller.  Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France.  During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager.   When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...

(1968) Lionel Stander, Gordon Mitchell, Gastone Moschin, Erika Blanc, Terry-Thomas, Adolfo Celi, Gordon Mitchell.  If you like caper films, this is a good one, similar to Who’s Minding the Mint.  A group of prisoners execute a brilliant plan of escaping from prison to commit an elaborate robbery, but then return to their cells before anyone knows they’re missing...

(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter.  What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable.  A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident.  He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...