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(1931) Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke.  This great two-disc set features the rare English-language UK edition, which includes additional footage actually shot in the UK and added to the film.  And yes…Lorre did dub his own voice for the English version.  Also included in this two-disc set is the original German language edition with brand new English subtitles...

(1949) Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, John Le Mesurier, Ian Fleming, directed by John Gilling. Riscoe charms everyone’s socks off in this smooth murder thriller. She takes in a new boa

(1965) Heinz Drache, Barbara Rutting, Klaus Kinski, Brigitte Horney, Margot Trooger, Eddi arent. The mad killer, “The Ringer” (aka “Der Hexer”) returns to England. This time to punish criminals who have committed murders under...

(1945) Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Jacques Pills, Jean Davy, Louis Salou, Ginette Baudin.  This isn’t a good movie, it’s a great movie—one of the best mysteries we’ve released in a long, long time. Blier is the rookie detective assigned to the murder-by-strangling cases of two young women.  The only clue he has is that the killer is always heard softly singing a current hit tune before he strikes...

(1937, Victory) Herman Brix, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue. Joan steals a precious gem from a couple of loan sharks. Herman gets tangled up in her messy situation. A fun cheapie from Sam Katzman. 16mm.

(1961) Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray, Franca Valeri. There are seven key witnesses in this GREAT murder thriller that has a touch of wit attached to it. An old woman is

(1939, Paramount) John Howard, George Zucco, Hearther Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive. Drummond hunts for madman Zucco who throws the police into a panic as he wreaks destruction with a death ray. A terrific "B" film. From 16mm.

THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY (1939) Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden, Anthony Bushnell.  A star English football player collapses right on the field during a big game.  When the dust settles, it’s discovered that the player was murdered!  But how…and by who?  Enter a snappy but serious police inspector played brilliantly by Banks...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large illustrated editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Art Studio Murders” by master mystery writer, Edward Ronns. The second novel is “The Case of Jenny Brice” by a very well-known mystery writer of the early twentieth century, Mary Roberts Rinehart. 

(1967) Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Ida Galli, Peter Dane. Silva excels in this remarkable, surreal thriller. Silva is set to be executed at the beginning of the film. Yet, later we see him again as a y

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first novel is steamy, hardboiled tale, “The Baby Doll Murders” by James O. Causey.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “Death Hitches a Ride” by another well-known mystery writer, Martin L. Weiss.  

(1964) Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Gert Frobe, Enrico Salerno, Wolfgang Preiss, Fernando Rey.  This hip film has a great cast.  It's a caper movie with a touch of wit.  JP plays a thief trying to smuggle gold from Barcelona to Beirut.  Helping him is the beautiful, but mysterious Seberg. 

(1934, Mayfair) Buster Crabbe, Ruth Hall, Ralph Lewis. Buster is an unemployed reporter who gets a big break (and a job) when he rescues the daughter of a big newspaper publisher. Buster soon discovers a

(1936, Victory) Regis Toomey, Sheila Terry, Molly O’Day, Robert Warwick, Fuzzy Knight. Terry’s brother is framed by gangsters for a crime he didn’t commit. Toomey comes to her aid and tries to bring the r

(1946, Fox) William Gargan, Carole Landis, Richard Crane, John Ireland, Mary Anderson. A car rolls up to a police station where it dumps the murdered body of a shady private detective. Landis, who’s

(1932, Mayfair) Eddie Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Robert Elliott, Ann Christy, George Chesebro. After being spurned, the wife of a powerful DA murders her illicit lover in cold blood. Her son takes the

(1935, Mascot) Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sid Blackmer. A great Mascot B film! A tough cop gets a big-time gangster thrown in jail, only to have his lawyer girlfriend get the crook out of the sla

(1934) Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis, John Stuart, Jeanne Stuart.  This is a very engaging murder drama.  Mary Ellis is a proper British wife who’s fallen under the spell of a suave yet unscrupulous Egyptian, wonderfully portrayed by Veidt.  Desiring to be free of the man she no longer loves, Ellis and Veidt plot to slowly poison her husband...

(1936, Chesterfield) Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Warner Richmond, Theodore Von Eltz. This is the kind of movie Chesterfield did best, an old-fashioned crime caper. After crooks knock over a...

(1933) John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Mickey Rooney, Natalie Moorhead, J. Carrol Naish. An upcoming prizefighter is expected to throw a championship fight. He may have different ideas, though. This leads

(1961) George Sanders, Pascal Bressy, Marie-Claude Breton, Robert Dalban. An upper crust murder mystery. The murder victim was a scheming photographer, who was also a blackmailer. His target had be

(1963, Anamorphic English Edition) Adrian Hoven, Ann Smyrner, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Vogel, Paul Dahlke, Gunter Meisner, Marianne Schönauer.  A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs.  They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead.  The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

(1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott, Walter Crisham. One great gangster film!  Travers is a gorgeous society dame who wants to get away from it all.  She’s kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who, along with his Ma-Barkerish mother, owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. 

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 470 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Black Gang” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by H. C. “Sapper” McNeile. Bulldog Drummond Returns! This double novel’s second tale features another great fictional detective in Louis Joseph Vance’s “Alias the Lone Wolf.”

(1947) Michael Medwin, Frank Hawkins, Winifred Melville, Jane Arden, Moyra O'Connell, Sid James.  A young British boy’s dad is convicted of murder and hanged.  The boy lands in a boarding school where he’s horribly bullied and ends up running away...

(1943, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Charles Middleton, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass. Zucco is the manager of a mysterious inn filled with terror and murder...

THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Vincent Ball.  This B-film crime-quickie has minor elements of both horror and sci-fi.  Hanley is an effervescent reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen a motorcycle near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...?  

(1959) Sabine Bethmann, Joachim Hansen, Rudolf Forster, Tilla Durieux. The daughter of a wealthy businessman has an affair with a married man and gets pregnant. The two scheme to hire an actor to mar

(1961) Peter Van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Eva Bartok, Claus Holm, Werner Peters.  Van Eyck is a prosecuting attorney who loses a murder case, although he’s certain the accused man was guilty of his wife’s murder.  Obsessed with the case, he follows up on his own and stumbles into a whole torrent of twists...

(1957) Mark Miller, Anita Thallaug, Lars Ekborg, Norma Sjoholm, Birgitta Ander. This is a really cool thriller filled with all kinds of neato stuff--a masterpiece of drive-in celluloid.  An American reporter heads to Sweden to do a feature story on Swedish nightlife.  After falling for a beautiful, morphine-addicted nightclub singer, he decides to do an expose on the rampant practice of corrupt showbiz managers who keep their showgirls on drugs to insure their services...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Mystery-crime writer Richard Deming paints a tale of wildly escalating corruption and atrocities in “Body for Sale.”  Blackmail, Sex, and Murder… Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled over the means to an end, as the end was worth grabbing for—even if his common sense told him NO!  So when he found out he was going to be fired, he played a blackmail card—a card that delivered...

(1961) Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen. A very enjoyable British programmer. Film opens with a Nazi WW2 bomb being found in an English Town. A bomb squad is eventually called in...

(1958) Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, John Colicos. Similar to the THE HITCH-HIKER. A family leaves on vacation, a small trailer in tow. They soon discover a gun-wielding killer in the trailer! He h

(1952) John Bentley, Marsha Hunt, Valentine Dyall, Arthur Hill, Shelagh Frazier, June Elvin, Michael Golden.  This movie starts out with a bang as a man with a briefcase leaves a British pub.  He’s followed by a couple of thugs out into the dreary night, one of whom knifes him in the back...

(1937, Paramount) Ray Milland, Sir Guy Standing. Hugh falls for a beautiful woman he's been hired to protect against spies. Milland's only appearance as Drummond. This was the first of eight Paramou

(1939, Paramount) John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, E.E. Clive, Reginal Denny.  A sparkling entry in the Paramount series as Hugh finds himself in Europe pursuing a bank robber.  Will he ever get married?  Great action and good fun in what proved to be the last entry of the Paramount series...

(1937, Paramount) John Howard, John Barrymore. A secret formula has been stolen and a scientist horribly murdered. Hugh Drummond tries to track down the gang of spies responsible in this slick B thr

(1948) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer. In this snappy mystery, Temple delves into the murder of several women, all of whom were patients of a strange, sinister doctor

(1944) Jesse Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann. An enjoyable, sometimes creepy British mystery thriller. Much of the action is centered about a spooky estate where a singer is forced to spend the night in order to...

(1939, Upgraded 11/16/21) Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer, George Merritt, Ronald Shiner.  This is a fine old dark house thriller with all the usual elements:  The head of an old English family seems to have some dread secret.  His servants even seem furtive in nature.  Then there's the doctor whose...

CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders.  Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...

(1971) James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov.  Impressive later Wallace thriller with a couple of imported American actors.  Malden is a blind, retired journalist who overhears a cryptic conversation in front of a medical facility.  That night a company guard is slain...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

IN THE MONEY (1933) Skeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson; MURDER ON THE CAMPUS (1934) Charles Starrett, Edward Van Sloan;  ELLIS ISLAND (1936) Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon; GIRL WHO CAME BACK (1935) Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE LADY FROM NOWHERE (1931) Alice Day, John Holland; TWIN HUSBANDS (1933) John Miljan; SONS OF STEEL (1934) Charles Starrett, Polly Ann Young.  RED LIGHTS AHEAD (1936) Andy Clyde.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Elga Anderson, Ralf Wolter, Sabine Sesselmann. Drache is a suave private eye.  He’ss dumped into the middle of a murder mystery when a woman is shot dead in his office with his own gun...

(1953) Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sheila Burrell, Richard Wattis, Joan Sims.  In this enjoyable anthology of three episodes of Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Karloff plays the smooth-talking title character.  He’s faced with three seemingly weird cases...

A SCREAM IN THE NIGHT (1935) Lon Chaney, Zara Tazil; SOCIAL ERROR (1935) David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger; SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX (1935) Lon Chaney, Jack Mulhall; GHOST TOWN (1936) Harry Carey.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE CORPSE IN THE PICTURE WINDOW by Bruce Cassiday & THERE’S DEATH IN THE HEIR by Larry Holden 

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked Circle” is a gritty tale of suicide and murder; authored by crime/mystery novelist Manning Lee Stokes.  A hundred grand could tempt anyone.  Private investigator Steve Paget had always thought he would do anything for money, but nothing quite as vile and low-down as Jefferson Torrance’s proposition had ever been offered to him before...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle.  “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle”  That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...

CROSS-UP (1958) Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely, Donald Stewart. On the first night of his London assignment, news agency reporter Parks becomes heavily involved with a mysterious woman (Daniely). The affair ends when she is shot as they grapple for a gun she has pulled.  But this is only the beginning of Parks’ troubles, especially considering the dead woman worked for a criminal organization...

(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...

(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) 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... 

(1945, PRC) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Tim Ryan, Edmund MacDonald.  Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder and crime...

(1945, Upgraded 3/3/21) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder. Savage is priceless as the female psycho who...

(1956) Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen. Palmer was 42 and drop dead gorgeous when she made this film.  Her feminine appeal is electric—and it’s supposed to be.  She lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her—everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her.  She is one wicked dame—shades of Play Misty for Me...

THE DEVIL PLAYS (1931) Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Christy.  This quickie was distributed by the king of poverty row murder mysteries, Chesterfield Pictures.  In a nutshell, the film deals with a murder mystery that takes place over one long weekend at an expensive mansion...

(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller.  This French crime-drama is simply brilliant.  Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police.  He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child.  The car crashes and...

(1979) Toshiyuki Nishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruko Wanibuchi, Tomoko Saitô.  This is a really well-made Japanese “locked room” murder mystery set in the 1930s.  The famous Nipponese detective Kindaichi is called in to investigate a number of horrible slayings.  His investigations soon point the finger at members of a wealthy family—a family that, as it turns out, has many dark secrets to hide...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar, Howard Vernon.  A dying politician summons an attorney to his death bed to reveal that two imprisoned lovers, who were earlier convicted of murder, are actually...

(1945-1948) Morgan Conway, Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Anne Jeffries, Lyle Latell, Anne Gwynne.  Here’s the entire RKO Tracy collection—four movies on two discs, all in great video quality.  You get:  DICK TRACY (1945); DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL (1946); DICK TRACY’S DILEMMA; and DICK TRACY VS. GRUESOME (1947)...

(1964) Dan Duryea, Gwen Watford, Isa Miranda. A great murder mystery. The only clue to a mad killer's identity is his shoes! The crime's only witness saw them while she was bent over picking something up.

(1962, Updated 10/25/21) Heinz Drach, Sabine Sesselmann, Eddi Arent, Pinkas Braun, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber. This terrific Wallace chiller is one of the better in the series.  A beautiful woman arrives at a mysterious mansion.  Little does she realize there's a psycho afoot who has built his own torture chamber, which is overstocked with helpless victims.  The killer plans...

(1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William. Hartnell. Top British noir! After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover.

(1941, PRC) Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, John Miljan, Wynne Gibson.  Here’s a PRC crime film that hasn’t been around that much.  Gibson guns down a cop who’s raiding her boss Miljan’s gambling joint.  Her boyfriend, also a cop, grabs the gun but...

DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1953) John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, dir. by John Gilling.  This is a nifty little crime film about a photograph that catches what is deemed to be a suicide, only—you guessed it—it’s not really a suicide, but murder!  Dant! Dant! Dah!  And of course, the photographer soon discovers she’s being stalked by the killer... 

(1969) Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Gunther Stoll, Christiane Kruger, Syd Chaplin. Kinski is actually the good guy in this rare Wallace-style Constantin thriller. His lesbian wife dies. She may or may not have been murdered. It’s a real shock though, when he sees her in a porno film made after the time of her supposed death...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first novel is “The Dove” by top-of-the-line veteran mystery writer Milton K. Ozaki.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “The Glass Ladder” by well-known sci-fi and mystery writer, Paul W. Fairman.  

HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE (1968) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That’s when bodies start

LABYRINTH (1959) Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. Labyrinth is a bizarre, brilliant film about a group of mental misfits in an out-of-this-world sanatorium

BLACK DICE (1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. Travers is a society dame who is kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. PLUS:  NIGHTBEAT (1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Anne Crawford.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed...

HOT MONEY GIRL (1959) Eddie Constantine, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams.  Constantine and Addams hatch a plot to recover a parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain.  Their quest takes them to an old convent that’s now a German police barracks. Lots of tense moments as they break through security lines. PLUS:  THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett.  Mitchell is a tycoon whose son is kidnapped.  There’s a huge ransom demand and the cops tell Mitchell to let them handle it.  Mitchell, though, takes matters into his own hands.  There’s a bit of sci-fi as Mitchell defends himself with a futuristic, hand-held flame projector...

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman.  McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer.  Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell and ends up hideously scarred from her jagged fingernails.  Soon, young men turn up slain.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey, Eric Micklewood.  A man obtains a dead monkey’s magical paw.  He is bestowed three wishes. His first wish is to be debt-free.  The wish is granted, but the price is his son’s life.  The next wish is for the son to be returned to life—but the price is truly horrible...

NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (1948) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. A top gangster film!  Travers is a dazzling society dame who is kidnapped by two thugs. LaRue is superb as a mobster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and crooks. DOUBLE CONFESSION (1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre. Top British noir!  After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover...

SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID (1962) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski.  In a change of pace role, Lee plays a determined FBI agent sent in to help Scotland Yard track down a murdering blackmailer and help bust up their crime syndicate.  PATTERN FOR PLUNDER (1962) Keenan Wynn, Ronald Howard, Mai Zetterling.   What a cool B-movie this is.  A group of WW2 vets seek a fortune in Nazi loot.  Their search leads to an ancient castle nestled by a beach riddled with quicksand...

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him south of the border.  PLUS:  BOMBAY WATERFRONT (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, he tries to unmask a killer known as “the Marquis.”

FEAR NO MORE (1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding.  Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from L.A. to S.F.  She soon finds herself accused of murder when a corpst is found in her compartment. PLUS:  SHIP OF THE DEAD (1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid.  A GREAT movie. A taut story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal.  Buckholz is tops as a human castoff, in international limbo because of a lost passport.  

THE DEVIL’S AGENT (1961, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Christopher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch.   Former wartime Intel officer Van Eyck runs into his old pal, Lee, who takes him to his mansion for a fishing excursion. THE FACE OF THE FROG (1959, Anamorphic) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. An American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue is the mysterious seal of the White Frog... 

BLOOD DEMON (1967, Anamorphic) Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Carl Lange.  Barker sentences Lee, the evil Count Regula, to death for slaying 12 virgins.  Many years later, Lee returns from the dead to claim revenge on Barker’s son. THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1968, Anamorphic) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls... 

M (1951) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie.  A well-done remake of the ’31 Lorre classic.  A mad killer is murdering small kids (this time in L.A.). The cops are combing the underworld, looking for the maniac. MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (1951) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes, Dora Bryan. Although this was officially a “Mother Riley” film, the real star here is Bela, who brings to his part an intensity not seen since his early ‘30s films. Worth it for him alone. Bela plots to dominate the world with an army of robots.

PSYCHO CIRCUS (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  A botched heist ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer. The shooter is given the chance to give the boss his share... RAT FINK (1966. Anamorphic Widescreen) Schuyler Hayden, Hal Bokar, Warrene Ott, Judy Hughes.  A great film!  Hayden is a ruthless rock singer wannabe who takes what he wants, unafraid to stamp out anybody who gets in his way...

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. The setting is London during the Jack the Ripper killing spree.  Palance plays a reserved research pathologist who takes up lodgings in a sitting room with a spooky attic room for his "experiments...”  THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries. This B-quickie has both sci-fi and horror elements.  Hanley is a fierce young reporter who tackles the story of a hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Veteran crime novelist Milton K. Ozaki tells a powerful tale of deception and murder in “The Dummy Murder Case.” It was a mock murder that led to...

EASY MONEY (1936, Invincible) Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker, Noel Madison, Allen Vincent.  An assistant DA botches an insurance racket trial against his brother.  He resigns, but goes to work for a private firm in order to bring his brother to justice.  When the brother is murdered, he sets out after the killers...

(1945, Upgraded 3/29/24) David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling, Julien Mitchell. A great Sexton Blake mystery! In a lonely, dark house in Cornwall, a man is murdered in the black of the night, shortly after leaving a confession to an earlier murder on a Dictaphone.  Another man is found slain on the beach below...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Sterling Noel’s “Empire of Evil” is one of the best mystery-crime thrillers dealing with the Mafia that you’ll ever come across.  It was the bloody path to murder.  This is the story of Daniel Andradi, a young executive in America’s most terrible industry—crime. This is the rise of a Mafioso, don of the Brotherhood of Evil, wielder of power beyond belief...

(1959) Battah, Omar Sharif, Reyad El Kasabgy, Umar El-Hariri.  A gang of smugglers murders a factory manager.  One of the factory employees is blamed.  Before the cops can grab him he flees across the desert into another country.  It gets even more complicated when his sister back home falls in love with...

THE END OF THE LINE (1957) Alan Baxter, Charles Clay, Jennifer Jayne, Barbara Shelley, Ferdy Mayne.  Baxter has a great part as an American writer in London who succumbs to the charms of his ex-girlfriend, played by Barbara Shelley (who wouldn’t!).  Unfortunately, she’s now married!  And when her hubby ends up dead, he finds himself the target of a blackmail scheme...

(1953) Sid James, Bonar Colleano, Simone Silva, Andrew James, Ted Ray, written and directed by John Gilling.  James plays an Italian racketeer on the run in London.  He runs into a scoop-seeking, hard-drinking reporter.  The reporter (Colleano) helps him hide out in a shut-up theater and in return he gets the gangster’s life story.  A little boy, who is convinced they’re secret agents, brings them food while they’re in hiding.  The coppers are soon onto them...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Everybody’s Watching Me” by well-known murder, mystery, and suspense writer Mickey Spillane.  o get it from him.  So Joe Boyle had to play the dangerous game of always having to be one quick step ahead of the mob.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, "A Bullet for Cinderella" by another well-known mystery writer, John D, MacDonald. 

(1961) Ed Dugan, G.J. Mitchell, Louis Gartner, Don Alderetter, Madeline Frances, Wes Carlson.  A teenage boy drives off from a diner and witnesses a car-to-car shooting in which a gangster is badly wounded, his car crashing into a ditch...

THE FALLING MAN (1968)  Henry Silva, Beba Loncar, Keenan Wynn, Carlo Palmucci. Silva plays a tough police inspector in this Euro-crime thriller. A gang of thieves has killed his son.  To make matters worse, he’s accused of killing a police informer.  Soon he’s fired from the force...

(1931) Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill, David Landau, Joyce Compton.  Sherman gives a grand performance as a doctor who’s fired from his hospital job for being morally corrupt.  He then sets himself up as a plastic surgeon, although he is completely unqualified.   He seduces women, rips off his patients, and soon causes an operating room tragedy that lands him in criminal court...

(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...  

(1934) Leslie Banks. Anne Grey, Carol Goodner, Frank Cellier, Frances L. Sullivan.  Don’t let the non-descript title fool you, this is one tough, mean-spirited thriller about insurance fraud and murder.  Banks is marvelous as a slick talking fire insurance investigator who falls in with a gang of arsonists...

(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...

(1922) Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Jack Mulhall. An outstanding crime melodrama with Lon as a convict hiding out in Chinatown. He assumes the identity of a cripple in order to track down the businessman who...

(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. Eye-popping video restoration by Edgar Wallace guru, Chuck Pennington...  

(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... 

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. “Frenzy” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by James O. Causey.  Shannon...she was a slut with a body like flame—hell’s own angel—wrapped up in murder and mayhem  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of murder and crime, “In this Corner—Death” by Emile C. Tepperman.  It was a good deed turned into a nightmare...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels.  The first novel is “Fury on Sunday” by Richard Matheson.  The second novel is “The Agony Column” by heralded mystery author, Earl Derr Biggers. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

GANG MOLL by Albert L. Quandt & TIP YOUR HAT TO DEATH by H. B. Hickey 

(1938 aka THE PHANTOM STRIKES, Upgraded 11/28/21) Sonnie Hale, Wilfred Lawson, Louise Henry. A fairly obscure Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him...

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(1939) Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Michael, Enid Stamp Taylor, Basil Radford, Jeanne de Casaslis.  Allan plays a much-under-pressure college student who boards a train and comes down with a serious case of amnesia.  She’s eventually preyed upon by an old crook who poses as her mother in order to usurp her trust fund...  

(1950) Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tenbroth, Anders Ek, Marianne Lofgren.  A beautiful but troubled young woman commits suicide.  Her personal effects are inherited by the caretaker in the house she lived in. He in turn gives the information of her death over to a writer who decides, in a very detective-like manner, to solve the mystery of her suicide... 

THE GOLD EXPRESS (1955) Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, May Hallatt, Patrick Boxill, Ivy St. Helier, John Serret.  Gray plays a handsome reporter who, along with his new bride, are about to embark on their honeymoon when he is assigned to cover a story on express train loaded with a fortune in gold.  Unknown to all is that there are crooks on board with a devious plot to...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Heralded whodunit author Max Murray lays down a gripping tale of murder and suspense with, “Good Luck to the Corpse.”   Red was his lucky color!  The little man scuttled up to the roulette table.  He looked shrunken and sick. He placed twenty thousand on red.  The croupier spun the wheel, then dropped the little white ball.  It raced around the wheel, slowed, and dropped—red...

(1968, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tapper, Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Herbert Fux, Hubert von Meyerinck. A killer gorilla stalks the dark streets of London, murdering unsuspecting victims. All the victims have agreed to donate their money to a charitable organization in the event of...

(1930, Upgraded 4/3/21) Eric Von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas. Strange drama about a crazed ventriloquist and ;his dummy, "Otto," which exudes a strange hold over him. Von Stroheim is SUCH an SOB. Lots of big staged musicical numbers that reek of nostalgia...

(1961, English Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Klausjürgen Wussow, Eddi Arent, Harry Wustenhagen.  Finally, a beautiful anamorphic English edition of this terrific Wallace classic from our Edgar Wallace restoration pal, Chuck Pennington.  An English businessman comes home to London only to find that visitors to his mysterious estate are being killed by the deadly arrows of the "Green Archer." Who is this arch fiend?...

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. “The Green Rust” by all time great mystery writer Edgar Wallace is our first classic story. The second tale is another great Edgar Wallace thriller, “The Clue of the Twisted Candle.”

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Guilty Bystander” by hard-boiled expert Mike Brett.  The second novel is a the suspenseful "Blood of My Brotehr," by Stephen Marlowe...

(1940, Universal) Heather Angel, John “Dusty” King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan.  Angel is terrific as a beautiful schoolteacher who, bored with life, takes off on an adventure.  Unfortunately, it lands her into a conversation with a gangster; and when he gets a little too friendly, she takes off in his car.  Unknown to her, there’s a dead body in the trunk...

(1947) John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell, Hylton Allen, Anthony Baird.  This is an odd little mystery with a very old-timey music score.  A movie usherette is hung out to dry (murdered!) following a fling with the theater manager.  Who is the killer?  That’s what...

(1929) Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin, Henry Victor, Jack Raine. This Forgotten Horrors style thriller is about the son of a murdered count who goes on a party cruise. Someone tries to kill him, but the

(1948, Upgraded 12/30/20) Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell, Jack Webb.  Basehart portrays one of the most brutal, ingenious killers ever put on the screen in this story of the LA police and their hunt for him.  The opening drive-up scene is very memorable and will jolt you right out of your seat...

(1953) Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talman, Jose Torvay.  This is truly one of the most gripping film noir classics you'll ever see. The plot concerns two vacationing businessmen who are held captive by a psychopath. The hitch-hiking killer puts his companions through sheer hell as they roll through the lonely highways of Mexico...

(1953) Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talman, Jose Torvay.  This is truly one of the most gripping film noir classics you'll ever see. The plot concerns two vacationing businessmen who are held captive by a psychopath. The hitch-hiking killer puts his companions through sheer hell as they roll through the lonely highways of Mexico...  

(1934 AKA HOLLYWOOD HOODLUM)June Clyde, Frank Albertson, Jose Crespo. A wildly irresponsible publicity agent keeps getting fired from his studio. After he’s given another chance, he hires an obscure actor and presents him to t

(1951) Lawrence Tierney, Aliene Robert. Here's another nice little suspenser starring everybody's favorite film noir bad guy, Lawrence tierney. A paroled criminal working at a gas statin plans a robbery that

(1968, Upgrade 10/31/21) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Beautiful Karin Baal inherits the mysterious old Blackwood castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that dead bodies are starting to pile up, their flesh torn from attacks by a...

(1966, Upgraded 10/30/21) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of...

(1964) Dimitri Nabokov, Maria Luisa Geisberger, Ben Salvador, Sandro Pizzochero.  A quartet of bank thieves rendezvous in a secluded castle to divvy up a bundle of diamonds, which had been hidden there by their dead boss.  But the jewels are secured in an iron-clad safe and the only way to open it is with a combination of keys, one having been given to each of the thieves...

I AM A CRIMINAL (1938, Monogram) John Carroll, Kay Linaker, Craig Reynolds, Martin Spellman, Lester Matthews.  Carroll is a gangster that the local DA (Matthews) wants to lock up and then throw away the key.  After going through a series of intriguing events, Carroll ends up jumping bail and hiding from the cops in a mountain resort...

(1936, Banner) Norman Foster, Elaine Shepard, Vince Barnett, Theodore von Eltz, Arthur Lake, Polly Ann Young. Two brothers run a Chinatown jewelry store that’s also a fence for “hot” goods. When one of the brothers’ wives decides to cut out, the other brother murders her—the corpse ending up in the trunk of a car!  

(1942) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Edward Norris, Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Risdon, Dick Purcell. Morris is a fast-talking reporter who’ll do anything for a story. Shipwreck victim Parker falls for hi

(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...

(1949, Upgraded 8/26/21) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1963, Upgraded 10/22/21) Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Corny Collins, Gisela Uhlen, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber. are being strangled one by one. The action centers around the dead mans creepy, country estate. When a wealthy man dies, the heirs to a dead mans fortune look forward to inheriting all his loot. However, soon the relatives are being killed off one by one, each of them strangled with...

(1962, Upgraded 10/23/21) Klaus Kinski, Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Eddi Arent. Scotland Yard investigate a grisly series of murders being orchestrated by a master criminal known as "The Shark"...

(1935, Universal) Austin Trevor, Gary Marsh, George Hayes, Robert Horton, Brian Buchell.  A visiting French sleuth steps in to help the police solve the “diary murders,” in which each victim is found in possession of a diary page of a dead actress. Before long a murdered corpse is found in a locked room!  This is one of those cool, intricate murder mysteries in a big old mansion filled with red herrings and other furtive types...

(1949, Upgraded 12/14/21) Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge. The dashing Richard Todd plays an up and coming author who absconds with his beautiful blonde mistress (the wife of his publisher) on an outbound train.  Soonafter the train leaves the station he has second thoughts and, much to the chagrin of everyone else on board, pulls the emergency cord and...

THE ISLAND MONSTER (1954) Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Renato Vicario, Patricia Remiddi.  This often-maimed Karloff thriller really isn’t all that bad if you can get past the fact that Karloff’s voice is dubbed by someone else.  A law enforcement agent heads to a small Italian island to break up a drug smuggling ring.  Things get complicated when the smugglers kidnap his daughter...

(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean.  Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin.  Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...

(1937) Rene Ray, Ballard Berkeley, John Longden, Paul Blake. Rene’s a chorus girl who’s seen leaving the hotel room of a show producer who’s found dead inside—bludgeoned on the back of the head. She

(1962) Tony Wright, Sonja Ziemann, Helmud Schmidt.   Wright is a wayward young mand who’s on the lam from a gang of thugs.  He soon meets up with a blind woman.  Together they come up with a double indemnity insurance scam, which they may or may not have the brains to pull off...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Watergate mastermind E. Howard Hunt penned a brilliant tale of sexual corruption, crime, and murder in “The Judas Hour.” She had brought him back from a living death, rescued him from degradation.  Now, as she stood before him, Jake Webb knew this woman—who now owned his life—was evil...

(1949) Milburn Stone, Katherine DeMille, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley Waxman.  Stone, in what may be the biggest role of his career, is a criminal defense attorney who discovers that his faithless wife is playing around on him with the county police psychiatrist.  He then concocts a bizarre plan of revenge...

(1953) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific film noir about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime...

(1952, Upgraded 10/25/22) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him...

(1938, Aka QUEEN OF CRIME) Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison, Francis Sullivan, Arthur Wonter. In this great Edgar Wallace thriller, Hulbert is a slick policeman out to nab Tobin and her criminal gang. Watch for the great scene where her gang robs a bank in the black of the night only to find the building encircled by police. Later, the gang heists a train loaded with gold bullion. When the police pursue, the train seemingly vanishes...

(1933, Warners, Upgraded 11/11/21) William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Paul Cavanough. There's no doubt that William Powell was one of the best screen detectives in the history of film, and here's a fine example. Powell is Philo Vance trying to solve a murder centered around seven suspects and a dead...

THE KILLER IS ON THE TELEPHONE—WIDESCREEN EDITION (1972) Telly Savalis, Anne Heywood, Giorgio Piazza, Osvaldo Ruggieri.  Beautiful Anne Heywood plays a woman whose husband was murdered five years before.  She is stalked, though, by the killer (Savalis) who wants to rub her out and end her threat as a potential witness against him... 

(1952) Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Ingeborg von Kusserow.  Tod is up to his nefarious plans once again as he plans an elaborate scheme for blackmail.  Barr plays the detective who’s out to bring him to justice.  There’s murder and mayhem aplenty in this curious film.  Tod has some priceless bits of dialogue, complimented here and there with his maniacal laughter...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Kiss and Kill” by veteran mystery writer Richard Deming.  The second novel is a classic Johnny Liddell tale of nail-biting suspense, “The Dead Stand-In” by another well-known mystery writer, Frank Kane.  

LADY IN THE DEATH HOUSE (1944, PRC) Lionel Atwill, Jean Parker, Douglas Fowley, Marcia May Jones.  This is a PRC one-week wonder with Parker on death row for murdering the man who blackmailed her family.  She claims the whole thing was a set-up.  In a strange twist of fate, her fiancé, (who’s a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead!) also happens to be the executioner at the prision...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is “Laughter Came Screaming” by hard-boiled mystery specialist Henry Kane.  The second tale is another good one, “The Extortioners” by Ovid Demaris...

(1928) Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman, Mary Carr, Eugene Pallette.  Here it is, filmdom’s first all-talking picture.  The setting is a Broadway speakeasy.  Landis is a gullible kid from upstate who’s taken in by a couple of crooks, thinking that they’re going to help him...

(1929) William Black, Viola Richard, directed by Charles L. Glett.  Don’t bother looking, you won’t find this incredibly rare American-made crime featurette in any of the major film research books or websites.  It’s a little creaky but interesting—especially from a film history perspective.  PLUS:  BOTHERED BY A BEARD (1945) Tod Slaughter, Jerry Verno, John Salew.  Todd does a short reprisal of his Sweeny Todd character...

 (1956) Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody, Walter Coy, Richard Lupino.  Ida and her kid brother (her real life cousin, Richard) plot to kill Ida’s husband and collect the insurance money.  They use a gas leak to commit the crime.  The only problem is her husband’s invalid father...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Renown 20th Century mystery writer Octavus Roy Cohen spins a real web of suspense with his tale called “Lost Lady. In Hollywood anything could happen.  Working the Hollywood night watch was a good gig for Sergeant Danny O'Leary—that was until...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Love Me and Die!” by veteran mystery writer Day Keene. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “You’ll Get Yours” by another well-known mystery writer, Thomas Wills. 

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Our author is former Watergate mastermind and suspected JFK assassination conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who’s at his very best in one of the mystery and intrigue novels that he was also famous for, “Lovers are Losers.” It’s a nail-biting tale about a...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Lustful Ape” by well-known mystery writer, Bruno Fisher. This double novel’s second tale is a terrific murder thriller, “Kiss the Babe Goodbye” by another well-known mystery writer, Bob McKnight.  

(1960, Upgraded 11/10/21) Lurene Tuttle, Tris Coffin, Myrna Dell, Nelson Leigh, Don Grady, Victor Lundin, Paul Dubov, Eric Morris, Byron Foulger. Tuttle plays the sadistic, killer "mommy" who leads her murdering pack of bestial sons through a series of robberies and murders. Also featured are well-known criminals like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and Alvin Karpis.  The gang's activities are...

Here's a great collection of trailers from Monogram Pictures.  There are trailers to many great titles:  Federal Bullets (‘37), Under the Big Town (‘38), Fighting Mad (‘39), King of the Zombies (‘40), Murder by Invitation (‘41), Gentleman From Dixie (‘41), Spooks Run Wild (‘41), Klondike Fury (‘42)...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Man Bait” is a terrific tale of steamy love, betrayal, crime, and murder; written by mystery-crime novelist, Jack Liston.  She had his hooks in me.  Her name was Marcia. She worked in a bar. She was scrawny but beautiful—and she knew how to control me.  It was through Marcia that I came to know Sam Brennerman, an acknowledged underworld big shot...

(1949) John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Gwynneth Vaughan, Laurence Harvey, Marie Burke. A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried

(1943, PRC) Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Forrest Taylor. MacLane, in an unusual role, plays a tough, crusading district attorney. His target he is gunning for (pun intended) is a top local mobster played by Talbot. Unfortunately, Talbot enjoys is protected by a number of crooked politicians...

(1933) Henry Kendall, John Turnbull, Louis Hayward, Ethel Warwick, Cyril Raymond.  This Brit murder mystery-chiller takes place at a creepy, “haunted“ estate called “Raven Hall,” where an assortment of odd people have gathered. Included are a stuffy policeman, a fearful servant girl, a slick crime reporter, a stodgy old aunt, and of course, a terrifying masked man who peers through the windows...

(1950) Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard. Cobb is a tough homicide detective who gets involved with a real black widow, a dame who’s willing to kill her husband—and does!  Cobb, blinded by infatuation, wants to turn a blind eye to the situation...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A married couple, vacationing in Switzerland, becomes aware of an assassination plot. Before they can inform the police, though, their daughter is kidnapped to keep them quiet.  Things end up in a strange London church that's being used as a...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp, Lars Lunøe.  In what is truly the most remarkable science fiction film we’ve released in years, Price plays a seemingly insane millionaire placed in an asylum after dangling a wiggling mouse in front of passersby and screaming crazed questions about the rodent’s physical reality.  In his cell, though, odd items begin to appear...

(1937) Hans Albers, Heinz Ruhmann, Marieluise Claudius, Hansi Knoteck, Hilde Weissner. This is a superb mystery-caper-comedy about two down-on-their-luck detectives who pose as Holmes and Watson. Th

(1971) Antonio Sabato, Faith Domergue, Barbara Bouchet, Corrado Gaipa. Here’s a compelling Euro-thriller with a fine cast. A politician is killed in cold blood near his home. The cops arrest a strang

(1969, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tappert, Karin Huebner, Fritz Wepper, Ilse Page, Stefan Behrens, Hubert von Meyerinck, Fritz Wepper, Ewa Strömberg.  Scotland Yard detective investigates a series of drug-related murders of gangsters and girls. It starts with a man who is found dead in a London hotel room—a knife stuck in his chest and a glass eye in his...

(1964, Upgraded 10/27/21) Hildegarde Kneff, Gotz George, Klaus Kinski, Richard Munch, Carl Lange. The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister criminal "The Tortoise." Although not officially...

George Hamilton, Cameron Mitchell, Lucianna Paluzzi. This is a real bad movie gem (2.5 on IMDB).  A luxurious yacht is found floating on the Aegean Sea, apparently abandoned, except for two lifeless bodies.  Proceeding from this perplexing beginning, the story—which is told in flashback by Hamilton (who's dead!), revolves around a Greek setting where a stewardess is viciously killed by a masked maniac...

(1944) David Farrar, Manning Whiley. A fine British murder mystery that was one of the later entries in the famed Sexton Blake series. On a dark, foggy night a mysterious stranger saws off the hand

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. David V. Reed's "The Metal Monster Murders" is truly one of the most unique murder mysteries you will ever read.  It crawled from the humid, fetid swamp of Jamaica Bay into the depths of refuse metal in a junkyard on the outskirts of New York...

George Zucco, William Gargan, Anne Savage, Leo Gorcey. A creepy little mystery that takes place in a forboding wax museum filled with the waxen images of famed murderers and gangland figures. Zucco

(1938) Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond, Serge Grave.  This is another forgotten von Stroheim gem.  A group of college boys form a secret society with an ultimate plan of going to America.  There’s a mystery afoot, though, when people start disappearing.  Things take a turn for the worse when an art professor turns up dead—murdered!  

STAR REPORTER (1939) Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt; MIDNIGHT LIMITED (1940) John King, Marjorie Reynolds; ROAR OF THE PRESS (1941) Wallace Ford, Jean Parker; LURE OF THE ISLANDS (1942) Robert Lowery, Margie Hart.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

Four Movies on Two Discs!  JANE EYRE (1934) Colin Clive.  Fine adaptation of Bronte novel.  BLAZING BARRIERS (1937) Frank Coghlan, Edward Arnold, Jr.  BOYS' REFORMATORY  (1939) Frankie Darro, Grant Withers.  MUTINY IN THE BIG HOUSE (1942) Chas. Bickford, B. MacLane.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

POLICE COURT (1932) Henry Walthall; SENSATION HUNTERS (1933) Arline Judge, Preston Foster; THE NUT FARM (1935) Wallace Ford, Betty Alden; A BRIDE FOR HENRY (1937) Anne Nagel, Warren Hull.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE MOURNING AFTER by Frank Kane BY THE CONFESSION by Mary Roberts Rinehart 

MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES (1937 aka SILVER BLAZE) Arthur Wontner, Ian Flemming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Judy Gunn, Robert Horton, Minnie Raynor.  Sherlock Holmes goes on holiday and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville.  Before long his holiday turns into a grisly double murder mystery...

(1962) Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Tony Wickert, David Hemmings. Two small-time blackmail artists (a man and woman) run afoul of a brutal gangster, who  stabs the man to death in his apartment as a warning for others to stay clear of his territory.  But when the woman shows up with an intended victim (a drunken student), the body is discovered and the student, in a drunken stupor, agrees to dispose of it...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Can’t Wait” is the name of this hardboiled novel, written by Manning Stokes. A million dollars was waiting at the end of a murderous plot. To say Vince Donnellen was down on his luck would be an understatement...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Clear, Track Fast” is a tremendous racetrack murder mystery by longtime mystery author, Judson Philips.  Saratoga was the place—the heart of thoroughbred racing in America.  Into this world came Don Channing, partner in a New York law firm.  His task—to solve the year-old murder of Jerome Fails...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Has Many Faces” is a great thriller by top-notch mystery writer William O’Farrell.  “I’m looking for an Angel.”  That’s what Nick Winterburn told them as he followed a tangled web of murder and mystery deep into the blazing, unfriendly land known as Mexico...

(1952) Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Tod Slaughter, Frank Hawkins. These two episodes are from an obscure Brit detective TV series.  Barr, as Morley, is an ex-police inspector, now in private practice.  He’s called in by two elderly sisters who say that someone is plotting to kill them...

MURDER ON LENNOX AVENUE (1941) Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood, Gus Smith.  The setting for this all-black drama is Harlem, 1941.  Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace an apartment building’s ousted, crooked leader (who wants revenge!) is having a hell of a time contending with his young ward, a two-timing womanizer whose affairs are approaching crisis level...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Murder Without Tears” is our first grisly tale of murder by Leonard Lupton.  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “No Way Out” by Milton K. Ozaki...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Robert Kelston serves up a murder mystery in a graveyard with “Murder’s End.”   You had a cemetery full of corpses—but one of them was a fresh murder victim!  As the owner of a stately cemetery, Charlie King was a man who made dying a pleasure.  But when Charlie turned up murdered, finding his killer became a convoluted mystery...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a real thriller, “My Flesh is Sweet.”  It was a frantic search that would soon lead to a trail of crime, intrigue, and bloody murder! This double novel’s second tale is a lively murder mystery, “The Mortgage Loan Murders” by Francis M. Deegan.  

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. This double novel features two classics by the queen of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie. The first tale is a Hercule Poirot thriller, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles.” Our second Christie tale is another great one, “The Secret Adversary.”

(1939) Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, Richard Gofe, Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton.  Kendall plays a down and out, unemployed family man who’s behind on his rent and has his gas cut off by his landlord.  Desperate to make ends meet, he comes up with an incredible ruse.  He creates a non-existant alter-ego, “Mr. Davis,” and begins an elaborate con-game that becomes wildly successful...

(1934, Monogram, Upgraded 9/14/21) Noah Beery Sr, Astrid Allyn, Ralph Lewis, Edwin Maxwell, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Gabby Hayes. A gorgeous upgrade of this old Forgotten Horrors favorite.  Murder, mystery and strange experiments aboard an ocean liner—this Monogram chiller has it all. The ghost of a former captain is apparently haunting the ship, his ghostly apparition being seen...

Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree. Murder and mystery surround the theft of a precious gem at a big social party. Naturally, Mr. Wong is called in to investigate. Boris is fun to watch. From 16mm.

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Adrian Hoven, Renate Ewert, Hans von Borsody, Jochen Brockmann.  This cool Krimi offering is available with English subtitles for the first time.  Inside a smoky nightclub called “the Green Spider” a beautiful singer finishes her song, then the band takes over, playing a raucous jazzy tune.  Lost in all the noise is the sound of a gunshot...

Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures.  Here's the list:  Big Town (1932), Amateur Crook (1937), Special Inspector (1939), What Price Vengeance (1937), Let’s Get Tough (1942), Shadows Over Chinatown (1946), The Chinese Cat (1944), Behind the Mask (1946), The Missing Lady (1946, Shadow), Pearl of Death (1944, Holmes), Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Holmes)...

Here's a great collection of trailers from the golden age of mystery-crime pictures.  Here's the list:  Broadway Big Shot (1942), Manhattan Shakedown (1939), Boss of Big Town (1943), Hidden Menace (1940), Gentleman from Dixie (1941), Inside the Law (1942), Gallant Lady (1942), Detective Kitty O’Day (1944), Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1944), Incident (1948), I’ll Name the Murderer (1936), Notorious (1946)...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Naked Fury” by heralded mystery writer Day Keene.  It’s a tale of power hungry men and dangerous women.  The second novel is a murder mystery set in the steamy jungles of Cuba, “Murder in Baracoa” by Paul E. Walsh.  He received a telegram of Death...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first novel is “The Naked Storm” by well-known science fiction and suspense writer C. M. Kornbluth.  The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “The Man Outside” by Alexander Blade.  

(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro.  A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.  Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...

(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir.  A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...

NIGHT TRAIN FOR INVERNESS (1960) Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Valentine Dyall, Silvia Francis.  Some of these little Brit thrillers of the ‘50s and ‘60s are real gems.  In this nail-biting film, Wooland, an ex-con just out of jail, kidnaps his son, whom his wife has previously kept from him.  Wooland and his son, along with his disgruntled girlfriend (marvelously played by Hylton) board an all-night express train.  Unknown to them...

Ronald Howard, Michael Gough, Elizabeth Sellers, Marie Ney. Gough plays a man who was captured by jungle natives and held captive for two years. Later, after returning to civilization and his wife,

(1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Hector Ross, Anne Crawford, Christine Norden, Syd James.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard soon ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed.  

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first thriller is John N. Makris’ great tale of crime and murder, “Nightshade.”  This is a tale of a seductress, here lovers, and her loyal pawn.  This double novel’s second tale is another great tale of mystery & murder, “Once is Enough” by David Wright O’Brien.  There was a gun in his hand and a corpse on the floor...

(1967) Dana Andrews, Jeanne Valérie, Salvo Randone, John Elliot.   A master criminal in a wheelchair summons a number of other hustlers together for illicit purposes.  His ace in the hole is that he holds a blackmail card over all of them.  The plan is to pull off an elaborate caper and knock over a high-roller jewelry store, which houses one of the world’s most valuable sets of ancient jewels...

(1959) John Ireland, Ellen Schwiers, Birgitta Anderssonen, Frank Sundstrom, Ralph Brown.  Ireland plays a tough guy who’s been tried, convicted, and imprisoned for an arson charge he didn't commit.  Once out of prison, he is bound and determined to find the real criminal and clear his name.  The trail leads him to Sweden, where he encounters many dangerous twists and turns...

(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

ONE WAY OUT (1955) Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos, John Bushelle.  Eddie is a police official about to retire.  He is horrified, however, when he finds out his own daughter is innocently mixed up with a gang of crooks.  Even worse, they’re blackmailing Eddie, threatening to send her to prison for a crime she didn’t even commit if he doesn’t play along.  With his career hanging in the balance, Eddie comes up with a daring plan...

(1965, aka MANHATTAN NIGHT OF MURDER, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Monika Grimm, Peter Kuiper, Silva Solar. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Their specialty is extorting money from small business owners.  Things get out of hand, though, when they murder one of the merchants.  The only witness is...

Lon Chaney, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakeman, Ralph Lewis. Lon was famous for his dual roles, this time he delivers a dual performance  as Ah Wing, a good-natured student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a vile, murderous rat who hovers over...

(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres.  Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit.  When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way.  Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...

Not Available outside the United States.  (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee, Valentine Dyall. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, Temple tries to unmask a master criminal known as...

(1950) John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Jack Livesay, Andrew Leigh, Dino Galvani, Barbara Couper.  A cool Temple murder mystery.  A brilliant scientist is kid-napped by two gunmen.  A criminal mastermind called “Zed” wants the scientist’s new formula for a laser-powered atomic missile defense system.  The scientist’s daughter goes to Paul Temple to enlist his aid in finding her father.  Temple and his wife are soon plunging across the British countryside, looking for clues...

(1932, Monarch) Regis Toomey, Helene Cohan, Robert  Ellis, Pat O’Malley. Regis is a small town boy gone bad.  After serving a stretch in prison, he returns home only to be blackmailed by a bank cashier!  This is a poverty row quickie, but it’s got some good moments.  The big prison bust-out scene is cool...

(1976) Lee Van Cleef, John Ireland, Carmen Cervera, Karin Well, Fernando Sancho.  This is a real grimy grindhouse drive-in movie.  No classic, but filled with all those low budget schlock thrills that ‘70s grindhouse fans love so much.  Van Cleef is betrayed by his lover and his best friend and is sent to prison on robbery charges.  He’s broken out of prison by the mob, who in turn want him to become a hitman...

(1935) Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Binnie Hale, Donald Calthrop. During the opening credits, a zombie-like man pulls himself through the portal of a lighthouse to the sounds of sinister themes. Harker’

(1961) William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green.  Near an old, derserted bombsite, a young child discovers a man lying unconscious.  When the boy awakens him, the man discovers he can’t remember anything from the past three weeks!  Adding to all the mystery, he finds out that his wife’s private detective has been murdered and that his company’s safe has been opened and emptied...

(1940) Flora Robeson, Russell Newton, Ann Todd, Geoffrey Toone. An English village is besieged by a series of horrible letters sent to the townsfolk, accusing various villagers of scandalous actions.

(1956) Googie Withers, John McCallum, Bill Kerr, Joan Hickson, Ewan Roberts.  This is a pretty good British B thriller. A couple of sailors come ashore in London looking for a good time and a few laughs before returning to their ship...

Four Movies on Two Discs!  DANGEROUS LADY (1941) Neil Hamilton.  Great Action-Comedy.  LADY FROM CHUNGKING (1942) Anny May Wong, Mae Clarke.  TIGER FANGS (1942) Frank Buck.  Jungle excitement and thrills.  A YANK IN LIBYA  (1942) Walter Woolf King, Joan Woodbury.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

HOLD THAT WOMAN (1940) James Dunn, Frances Gifford; CRIMINALS WITHIN (1941) Eric Linden, Ann Doran; CAUGHT IN THE ACT (1941) Henry Armetta, Iris Meredith; SECRET EVIDENCE (1941) Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

MEN OF SAN QUENTIN (1942) J. A. Hughes, Eleanor Stewart; SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER (1944) Frank Jenks, Iris Adrian; PHANTOM OF 42 STREET (1945) Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge; UNTAMED FURY (1947) Steve Pendleton, Mikel Conrad.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Maya Koumani, Terence Alexander, Mary Clare, Victor Brooks.  Jackson plays a recently-released-from-prison convict who has trouble finding work.  He changes name and...

RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

Monogram, aka YOU CAN”T BEAT THE LAW - Edward Norris, Joan Woodbury, Jack LaRue, Milburn Stone, Kenneth Harlan. Norris is good as a wild playboy who is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn’t commit

(1936, Mercury) Eddie Nugent, Lucille Lund, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor.  A fighter is convicted of manslaughter for killing his opponent with a punch that landed after the bell.  After he's paroled the same thing happens again...

(1966) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  The plot begins with a botched heist that ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer...

(1969) Adrienne Larussa, Rossano Brazi, Nino Castelnuovo, Idelma Carlo.  A wonderful, almost forgotten giallo classic.  Larussa (Beatrice Cenci) is tops as a gorgeous, wealthy young heiress who is tricked by her lover (a really slimy no-good so and so) into having sex inside a seedy brothel.  After she is caught in a police raid (as arranged by her lover for purposes of blackmail) she’s tossed into a mental institution by her family so that all concerned can be spared the “scandal.”  However, when she finally gets out of the booby-hatch—look out!  

SUICIDE SQUAD (1935) Norman Foster, Joyce Compton; THE RECKLESS WAY (1936) Kane Richmond, Marion Nixon; LIGHTNIN’ BILL CARSON (1936) Tim McCoy, Lois January; SPECIAL AGENT K-7 (1937) Walter McGrail, Irving Pichel.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Senta Berger, Luc Merenda, Umberto Orsini, Anita Strindberg, Bruno Corazzari.  This is a very well-made Euro-thriller with Merenda playing a bewildered man who’s lost his memory as the result of a car crash...

(1951) Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour, John Horsley, directed by John Gilling.  Hylton plays a pretty British lass who takes over a lonely, oceanside pub and boarding house.  Much to her surprise, she discovers her inn is...

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain by a rival horse owner. Soon jockeys are being murdered by a mysterious...

A MAN BETRAYED (1936) Eddie Nugent, Lloyd Hughes; RHYTHM IN THE CLOUDS (1937) Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull;  IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1937) Alan Baxter; THE GREAT FLAMARION (1946) Eric Von Stroheim, Dan Duryea.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1961) John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton. A young couple movies into a new house. The wife notices that a strange man is peering in at them from outside in the middle of the n

(1934) Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Francis L. Sullivan, Claud Allister, Joyce Kennedy. Hugh Drummond’s arch rival, Carl Peterson, is at it again. This time, disguised as a priest, he is trying to st

(1938, aka NOBODY HOME) Gordon Harker,Hartley Power,Rene Ray, Una O'COnner, Cyril Smith. A somewhat obscure British Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by Scotland Yard. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks him down and kills him anyway, in spite of the Yard's efforts.  Who really is...

(1964, aka DER HEXER, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Carl Lange, Eddi Arent.  The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up...

(1944) Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker. Reporters Jenks and Raymond try to get an interview with the head of a big foundation regarding a revolutionary new listening device. They soon end up at the lab of the real inventor, H. B. Warner...  

(1932) Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop, Cedric Hardwicke.  Like any good train murder mystery, there is an assortment of interesting characters, each seemingly with something to hide...

RUN IF YOU CAN by Owen Dudley & THE SCENTED FLESH by Milton K. Ozaki           

(1960) Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Leo Riuttu. This is a good old-fashioned closed room murder mystery.  The world famous Lieutenant Palmu is brought in to investigate when a much-despised millionaire playboy is found dead in his interior pool—murdered.  Who is the killer?  There are some nice tongue-in-cheek moments thrown into this well-made murder thriller...

THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER (1939) Nina McKinney, Jack Carter; BRONZE BUCKAROO (1939) Herb Jeffreys, Spencer Williams; GANG WAR (1940) Ralph Cooper, Gladys Snyder. SON OF INGAGI (1940) Zach Williams, Laura Bowman; Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1951) John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Rogers.  The Toff was a well-known, upper crust British detective character who appeared in magazines, books, and films, dating back to the early 1930s.  In this, his first motion appearance, he is well-played by John Bentley, who played him in both Toff films.  In this fast-moving mystery, a man walks out of a nightclub onto a darkened street.  Moments later he is knifed in the back...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Saratoga Mantrap” by Dexter St. Claire. The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “Classification: Homicide”  by another well-known mystery writer, Jonathan Craig. 

(1917) Lon Chaney, Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Sam DeGrasse. Lon plays a bank cashier who discovers embezzling and confronts the criminals with the evidence. A bizarre twist of events follows an

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Directed by Fritz Lang.  Considered one of the greatest pieces of film noir cinema ever made.  Robinson, in one of his best performances, plays Chris Cross, a cashier who's just been given his gold watch at retirement. As fate would have it, he runs into a gorgeous woman (Fontaine) on the way home who soon has him wrapped around her finger...

 (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Arthur Richelmann, Karin Hübner.  This film plays, in places, like an Edgar Wallace film; in other places like a seedy JD movie filled with troubled youths.  At a boarding school for boys a firebrand student goes missing.  It’s theorized he may have met with foul play.  When his rich father also goes missing...

(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

(1965) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards, Alan J. Smith. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, seedy, sleazy, el-cheapo exploitation-crime films what were made in the early-to-mid ‘60s.  The Seventh Commandment, Shanty Tramp, The Sadist, and Commonlaw Wife are other prime examples...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery.  Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack…  This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory. 

(1954) Fernando Soler, Isabella Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Soler is a kindly priest in a small village. He has a dark secret, though, and a local shopkeeper demands money from him. Late one night

(1962) Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger, Hans Reiser, Chris Howland, Helga Sommerfeld, Leonard Steckel, Peter Carsten. The chilling tale of a series of grisly murders at a famed English Hotel in London's Soho district. The killer uses a sharp knife to knock off the hotel guests.  Hansen, a slick detective, is called in...

(1963, Upgraded 11/7/21) O. W. Fischer, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinksi, Werner Peters, Eddi Arent.  The London police are perplexed by three horrible murders. Each victim has been killed by a “black widow” bullet.  Bodies start piling up before a slick reporter begins to figure things...

(1962, Upgraded 10/25/21) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent. A mysterious criminal gang relocates to jolly old London.  Their plan?  To extort as much money as they can from various British elders.  There's murder involved...

(1946) Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Jack Raine, Tamara Desni, Beatrice Varley.  This film—the first Paul Temple movie—is a good one.  Temple is a spirited novelist and amateur sleuth.  After teaming up with an energetic female reporter, they investigate a gang of diamond thieves that Temple suspects is behind the death of the reporter’s policeman brother...

(1941, PRC) Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Gregory Gay.  In a pitch black apartment a girl screams.  There’s a gunshot, then a body hits the floor.  Moments later the girl snags a ride from an unsuspecting young fellow...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy.  This is an excellent Gaumont thriller.  Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France.  During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager.   When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...

(1968) Lionel Stander, Gordon Mitchell, Gastone Moschin, Erika Blanc, Terry-Thomas, Adolfo Celi, Gordon Mitchell.  If you like caper films, this is a good one, similar to Who’s Minding the Mint.  A group of prisoners execute a brilliant plan of escaping from prison to commit an elaborate robbery, but then return to their cells before anyone knows they’re missing...

(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter.  What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable.  A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident.  He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...

(1941, Warner Bros) Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Turhan Bey, Bruce Lester, Heather Angel.  A creepy boarding house is the setting for this slickly-made Warner Brothers thriller where tenants in the house seem to be involved in nefarious criminal activities and—worst of all—murder...

(1960) Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Robert Beatty.  This is a great British crime film.  Morgan gets out of the slammer and sets up what seems to be a legitimate modeling agency.  Back of it all, though, is a blackmail operation...

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey. The evil Professor Moriarty attempts to steal a secret military weapon in what is considered by many to be the best of the “modern” Holmes fil

(1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, Alf Marholm.  Buckholz gives the performance of his life as a human castoff, in international limbo, because of the loss of his passport.  He is conned into taking a job on a tramp steamer filled with misfits, smugglers, and murderers.  Soon after realizing his plight, he and his pal discover the ship’s cargo isn’t exactly what it’s purported to be...  

(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. 

(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...  

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...