(1944) Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger. Calvert is the down-on-her-luck damsel in this polished Victorian melodrama. Mason is great as the dastardly fellow who kills her...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another excellent murder mystery, “Farewell to Passion,” by that outstanding whodunit author, Day Keene. From the lush bistros of Sunset Strip, Hollywood, to the brooding swamps of backwoods Georgia, Hi Shannon (his honor destroyed by his wife’s unbridled passions and his head hunted by the law and the L. A. syndicate) searches for the one clue and...

(1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding, Helena Nash, John Baer.  Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from Los Angeles to San Francisco.  She soon finds herself accused of murder when a dead woman is found in her compartment. Arrested and taken off the train, she escapes custody and flees to her apartment.  There she finds...

(1938) Evelyn Venable, Craig Reynolds, Reed Hadley, John Kelly. A woman is shocked when she discovers her husband is the head of a truck-hijacking ring. When he forces her to drive their getaway car, she finds herself wanted by the police, too. An OK Monogram crime thriller with an engaging script...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Our first novel is “Find Eileen Hardin—Alive!” by top tier mystery author, Stephen Marlowe.  Eileen Hardin was barely eighteen, too young to be a call girl!  The second novel is another terrific murder mystery, “Murder on the Make” by Robert Martin.  It was a perfect “murder-for-money” setup...  

(1961) Johnny Cash, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Ronnie Howard, Pamela Mason.  Cash plays a vile, hardboiled hood, hired to hold a bank president’s wife (Forester) hostage while the bank is being robbed.  Held at gunpoint in her own home, she is put through hell by Cash...

(1962) David Sumner, Susan Travers, James Hayter, John Arnatt, Jack Watson, Renee Houston.  A short but sweet thriller about an ex-con who becomes the prime suspect after a string of horrible slayings occur.  The murders always occur under a full moon and the victims are always young blondes.  The final scene in a fog-enshrouded wooded are between Sumner and Travers is very well done.  Is he the killer…or isn’t he?  Aka Out of the Fog.  16mm.  

(1931) Benita Hume, Peter Hannen, Harold Huth, Walter Armitage.  Hum and Hannen are newlyweds, off on their honeymoon.  Hannen is also an inventor with secret plans.  Little do the newlyweds realize that international crooks are out to steal Hannen's plans, who is soon kidnappedby the bad guys.  However, when they find he’s not in possession of the plans, Hume is left to contend with the conniving, low-down scoundrel Harold Huth...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Osvaldo Genazzani, Nieves Navarro.  Lassander plays the wife of a struggling businessman whose finances are at the breaking point.  She soon finds herself the blackmail victim...

(1961) Karin Dor, Hellmut Lange, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent, Mady Rahl, Walter Rilla. Scotland Yard investigates a clever ring of counterfeiters who are flooding England with phony money. The prime suspect is an amnesiac playboy, to whom beautiful Karin Dor has just wed. What horrifying secrets are...

(1959) Ken Takakura, Kenji Imai.  This is a terrific film about a mad killer on an airliner.  The film’s initial exposition is great as we get to know all the various passengers who are boarding the plane. The killer, who has just murdered three people, then boards with a gun in hidden in his pocket (no security screening back then).  When one of the passengers discovers his identity, the killer holds the plane at bay (in flight) and threatens to kill anyone who refuses to obey him...

(1951) Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco, Paul Muller, story by Federico Fellini.  This is a realistic Euro-crime film that deals with four criminals who stage a robbery during a soccer match.  But before they can make their getaway the cops arrive, so they split up without dividing their booty...