THE THIRD VISITOR (1951) Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton, Hubert Gregg, Colin Gordon, Karel Stepanek, Eleanor Summerfield.  Stepanek plays a snobbish gent living in the English countryside who is visited by various people, including a tough gangster and a mysterious female, all in the black of the night.  The next morning, Stepanek’s nearly unrecognizable body (bludgeoned horribly in the face) is found by the cops, headed by a persistent British inspector...

(1929) Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Bela Lugosi; Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield.  The Thirteenth Chair is a good early-talkie whodunit... Seven Keys to Badpate is a well-done old dark hotel comedy-thriller...

(1953) Greta Gynt, John Van Eyssen, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson, Nicholas Hannen. This is a short and sweet British drawing room murder mystery.  It’s got a nice cast with two horror veterans, Gynt (Human Monster) and Van Eyssen (Horror of Dracula).  Relatives gather at their rich elderly Uncle’s estate to listen to details of his will and his demands of them...

PARTY GIRL (1930) Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Judith Barrie; WINGS OF ADVENTURE (1930) Rex Lease; MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (1931) Hale Hamilton; HOTEL CONTINENTAL (1932) Theodore Von Eltz.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Milton Ozaki is in fine form with his classic thriller, “A Time for Murder.”  A phone call early Monday morning was hardly anything exciting for Private Detective Max Keene; but when an attractive dame on the other end offered a great deal on a case of hard-to-find cheap booze, Keene could hardly refuse...

(1957, Upgraded 12/20/21) Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Lee Patterson, Vincent Winters, Robert Ayres, Alan Gifford, Sean Connery. A banker's son is accidently locked in an air-tight vault that's not set to open again for over 60 hours. The problem is that the boy has, at most, ten hours of oxygen left.  It's a life-and-death race against time to save the boy's life in this great British thriller...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Too Hot to Handle” is a finely woven tale of mystery and murder from Frank B. Presnell.  “Her voice was taunting… She whipped her open palm against the side of my face.  It jarred my mouth open.  She slammed me with her other hand, and got ready to repeat with the first.”  That was Ed Barlow’s payoff when he searched luscious Linda Cameron’s apartment for stray playboys...

(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...

(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 porltrays a scheming woman who eliminates...

(1962) Reginaldo Faria, Eliezer Gomez, Atila Lorio, Grande Otelo. This is an intricate, very exciting Euro-thriller about six armed men who dynamite a train on the Central Brazil Railway, robbing it

(1964) Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger, Catherine Schell, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent.  There’s a plot afoot to steal the Crown Jewels!  It all starts when a corrupt businessman breaks a two-bit crook out of Dartmoor prison.  Why?...

(1949) Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway.  This is probably the best video copy of this film-noir thriller on the market today.  It was transferred from a beautiful 16mm original print. This is a dark, gritty, sometimes sleazy little B-film. Most of it takes place during a depressing, somewhat creepy night in a big city. Bridges is great as a prison convict given a chance to redeem himself on the outside by helping to break up a counterfeiting ring...

(1949) Rene Deltgen, Hilde Weissner, and Gustav Knuth. Deltgren is great as the title character,Tromba, who has a bizarre circus tiger act. The secret to his act's success is his actual use of hypnos