(1966, Anamorphic Edition) Paul Hubschmid, Karin Dor, Vivi Bach, Rosalba Neri, Nando Gazzolo.  Hubschmid is quite good as “Upperseven,” a master of disguise. He teams up with a CIA operative played by the beautiful Karin Dor, who would become a Bond girl the following year in You Only Live Twice.  Together, the two of them set out to smash a diamond smuggling ring...

(1966, Upgraded 12/16/22) George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Walter Rilla, Heinz Weiss, Helga Schlack. Here’s another good entry into Nader’s “G-man Jerry Cotton” series. A delivery truck from the U.S. Mint is hijacked...

(1939) Anna Sten, Alan Marshall, Jerome Cowen, Stanley Fields, Harry Davenport. After a long hiatus, this was supposed to mark Sten’s big comeback. She’s very good and cute as a bug as a lab assistan

(1959) Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Werner Peters, Ernst Schroder. It’s the early days of WWII. Three German generals, frustrated with their maniac boss, Hitler, decide to open up secret negotiation

(1963) John Bentley, Faten Hamama, Anita West, John Gabriel. A great schlockfest! Bentley is a tough-guy-for-hire who leads four seedy characters to the African wilds in search of hidden treasure.

THE STEEL KEY (1953) Terence Morgan, Joan Rice, Raymond Lovell.  Morgan is a suave, roguish fellow who lives on the edge of criminality while bringing crooks to justice himself—much like “The Saint.”  In this well-made British thriller (with a slight sci-fi element), he investigates a gang of crooks who have stolen (from a blind professor) a scientific formula for hardening metal...

(1921) Bela Lugosi, Lee Parry, Violette Napierska. A lost Lugosi film finally surfaces! Bela looks absolutely wonderful and has a meaty role in this silent espionage drama. He plays a French aristocrat that

(1967) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys.  Madison is a journalist who gets involved in the search for a leading brain surgeon, who has mysteriously disappeared.  The search takes him to the African desert where they discover Devilman.  Devilman’s plans are simple: using a new brain-transplanting procedure, he intends to rule the world...

(1963) Jean Marais, Genevieve Page, Maurice Teynac, Marcelle Arnold.  A well made French spy comedy.  Marais is a married businessman who falls for another woman and falls into an espionage plot all in the same evening.   He's soon heading down a path of intrigue...

(1964) Eddie Constantine, Albert Prejean, Carla Marlier.  This is another one of those cool "Lemmy Caution" type films that Constantine made all throughout the '50s and '60s.  Eddie arrives in Athens to help a friend search for a fugitive Nazi war criminal.  His friend is murdered, but with his dying gasp says the name “Stella...” 

(1959) Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, Nadine Tallier.  This is a slick, extremely well-made caper-intrigue movie.  Constantine, Addams, and Goring hatch a plot to recover a lost parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain.  Their quest takes them to an old nuns’ convent that’s been turned into a police barracks.  Lots of perilous moments follow as they break through security lines in search of the jewels... 

(1966) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Ann Smyrner, Dan Vadis.  Tony and Brad protect a lady who’s a kidnap target in this thriller that has a bit of everything:  sci-fi, ancient temples, martial arts, big explosions, jungle thrills, etc...