(1932, Upgraded 8/18/21) Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson. Wontner's third Sherlock Holmes film.  A beautiful but troubled young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for protection from an escaped killer.  Also at play is a missing treasure. Things take a turn for the worse when...

THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND (1934) John Longden, Charlotte Francis, Constance Worth, John Warwick, John Pickard.  This forgotten Aussie-British crime-drama has Todd Slaughter regular Warwick released from prison after a twenty-year stretch for a killing he didn’t commit.   On his mind—revenge against the clergyman who stole those years by not clearing his name.  This film deals with murder, seduction, out of wedlock pregnancy, and betrayal.  Worth is priceless as the seductive hussy who ruins the lives of those around her.  From 16mm. 

(1930, Warners) Disc one:  Sinners Holiday. Grant Withers, James Cagney, Joan Blondell. A mother struggles to manage her family, especially with her wild son, (Cagney’s film debut), who becomes embroiled with a bootlegger... Disc two: Doorway to Hell.  Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Dorothy Meadows. A gangster successfully organizes the underworld factions of Chicago into a single efficient crime syndicate...

(1963) Anthony Newley, Robert Stephens, Julia Foster.  Wow… Newley is brilliant as Sammy Lee, a street hustler and strip club host who finds himself on the short end of life more often than not.  The plot has Sammy frantically trying to raise 300 pounds to pay off a debt to a mysterious personage known only as "Connor".  Connor’s ruffians are sent to track Sammy down when Sammy fails to pay...  

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Glynn Edwards, Sam Kydd.  What a cool movie this turned out to be (7.0 on IMDB).  In the opening moments of the film, a blazing car goes crashing over a seaside cliff, plunging into the murky waters below and killing its driver.  The deceased had been insured for 100,000 pounds...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Robert Moore Williams’ “Somebody Wants You Dead” is our first electric tale of murder and mayhem. This double novel’s second tale is another great thriller, “The Black Key” by M. Scott Michel.  It was a dream that held the secret to a killer’s identity...

Noah Beery, Ailene Marson, Billy Milton, John Erwin. An impoverished pair of siblings (brother and sister) take residence in their childhood home, which is a somewhat creepy, dilapidated old country estate. They concoct the idea of faking the sister's murder in order to launch the brother's career as a journalist.  Right… Things get very complicated when...

(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...

(1962) Bing Russell, Bill Hale, Eve Brent. Good film about an ex-con and his boy who can't find work because of dad’s criminal record.  This is a great "little" film that explores the despair of an ex-con trying...

(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...

(1953) Francis Lederer, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, produced by Turhan Bey. This taut thriller has Lederer as an insanely jealous pianist who plots to murder his wife’s lover. A taxi-driver is giving t

(1961, Upgraded 10/22/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Rudolf Fernau, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, Fritz Rasp. A beautiful young girl is almost murdered.  Fuchsberger is the slick inspector who tries to sort things out.  No explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered...