(1964, Updated 10/25/21) Harold Lieb, Judith Dornys, Rudolf Forster, Werner Peters, Klaus Kinski, Vera Tschechowa, Eddi Arent. The aged owner of an old gambling casino dies, making a young girl heir to his amassed fortune that lies hidden in a secret tomb. Shady underworld members become the victims of both greed and the dread secret of the...

DANCING WITH CRIME (1947) Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, John Warwick, Garry Marsh.  Attenborough plays a London cab driver who gets in the snares of a criminal gang after he refuses to join them.  This causes a lot of problems for Attenborough, whose pal is one of the gang members.  Attenborough then sets out to expose the gang and...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Dangerous Lady” by Octavus Roy Cohen. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “One Hour Late” by another well-known mystery writer, William O’Farrell. 

(1972) George Montgomery, Terry Moore, Gay Perkins, Cyril Poiter, Bill Kelly.  This is a wonderful, albeit forgotten, southern drive-in thriller.  Montgomery, in one of his last starring roles, plays a down and out race car driver with a passion for speed.  With his career in shambles, he ends up driving for a drug ring because there’s no police car that can catch him.    

(1957) starring Tom Drake, Shirly Eaton, Robert Robinson, Maurice Kaufmann.  The film's setting is at an auto dealership where a couple of shiftless employees are conspiring with a tough gangster-type to rob the garage.  Things get out of hand when one of the crooks is murdered and Drake is implicated in the crime...

(1942, PRC) Michael Whalen, Anne Nagel. A not bad PRC thriller about foreign agents attempting to steal a powerful explosives formula. Hold on to your seats because this movie ends with a real bang. From a nic

(1961) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karen Baal, Klaus Kinski, Andy Berber. In the early 1960's a large number of German films came out based on horror stories of Edgar Wallace. This is one of the best, a remake of Lugosi's THE HUMAN MONSTER.  A monstrous, blind killer is on the loose in London!  Wealthy, heavily insured men are being bumped off, one by one...

DEAD IN BED by Day Keene & BONES WILL TELL by Bruno Fischer 

(1971, Upgraded 11/1/21) Hansjorg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Gunther Stoll.  When an Australian woman arrives in London, she discovers her sister is involved with a ruthess heroin smuggling gang. Complicating matters is that the gang itself is being targeted by an unknown assailant who shoots his victims dead with a bullet in the head...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first novel is “The Deadly Pick-up” by Milton K. Ozaki.  The second novel is “Killer Take All!” by another fine mystery writer, James O. Causey.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

(1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco.  One of the hippest, most stylish films of the ‘60s—no exaggeration.  Jean-Louis finds the corpse of a blackmailing nightclub manager in his office—blood on the floor.  In the room is Ewa, who claims innocence, even though her deceased father was the blackmail victim.  Together they go...

(1972) Stelio Candelli, Patrizia Viotti, Veronika Korosec, Rossella Bergamonti, Tom Felleghy.  A man finds his wife brutally murdered. He has no alibi so is instructed by his lawyer to go into hiding in an old, abandoned hotel. Strange occurrences start happening immediately, including the discovery of a woman with her throat cut! The hotel setting of this film is in some ways reminiscent of The Shining...