(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

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...

(1953) Gordon Jackson, Barbara Murray, Pamela Alan, Jane Aird, Sam Kyd. The setting is an all-girls school.  A teacher is found lying in a wooded area next to the school—choked to death with a scarf.  Murray, one of the first on the scene, is shocked to find that the scarf is hers!...

DEATH HAUNTS MONICA (1976) Nadiuska, Arturo Fernández, Jean Sorel, Karin Schubert, Damian Velasco.  This is a pretty good Spanish Giallo complete with good guys in trench coasts and mysterious killers.  A beautiful, wealthy lady is implicated in a series of horrible murders.  She ends up running the gauntlet of numerous plot twists and subplots...

(1932, World Wide, Upgraded 12/12/21) David Manners, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Adrienne Ames, Vince Barnett. A big time movie star is shot dead (the gun was supposed to have blanks) right in front of the cameras after receiving an on screen kiss.  Van Sloan is the director who continues to give directions to the corpse, thinking all along his actor is simply lying down on the job!  Manners is the studio writer who...

(1935) Henry Kendall, Eve Gray, Jeanne Stuart, Garry Marsh, Wally Patch. A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangster’s place, he then causes an actress to...

(1960, Updated 4-15-25) Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata.  A wealthy businessman tries to orchestrate a marriage between his elder daughter and a young up-and-comer who he sees as a good candidate to someday to take over his business.  What dad doesn’t know, though, is that his daughter not only loves another man, but she’s also pregnant with child! When daddy ends up dead...

(1971) Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Carlo Gentili.. An infamous jewel thief ends up slashed to death on a train by an unknown killer. His daughter, who’s a beautiful Paris nightclub sta

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Decoy” is a gritty murder tale written by mystery-crime novelist, Edward Ronns.  He was set up to take the fall.  Someone was pulling the strings of corruption in Sea City, and they had big plans for Ben Sherman, which would leave the now disgraced lawyer left holding the bag on a phony bribery charge...

THE DESIGNATED VICTIM—Widescreen (1971) Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Marisa Bartoli.  An oddball count becomes friends with a frustrated businessman.  Together they work out a scheme in which the count will bump off the businessman’s loveless wife, while the businessman will rub out the Count’s unpleasant brother...