BEYOND THE CURTAIN (1960) Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim.  An East German refugee finds herself back home in Dresden when the flight she is stewardess on is forced down there. She is then used by the police to find her wanted brother.  But trouble and intrigue soon arise when...

THE DEVIL’S AGENT—Widescreen Edition (1961, Updated 3-14-25) Peter Van Eyck, Christpher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch, Billy Whitelaw.  Lee takes his pal, Van Eyck (a former intel officer) to his country estate on a fishing excursion.  But when Lee's sister asks Van Eyck to transport a small package to a contact in Germany, the baffled Van Eyck is thrown into a circle of spy games involving the Russians...

SECRETS OF COUNTER-ESPIONAGE (1947) Pavel Kadochnikov, Amvrosi Buchma, Sergey Martinson. A Soviet agent is air-dropped into Nazi occupied territory. He takes the disguise of a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of slave labor in occupied Ukraine and soon strikes a partnership with another German who's son is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Ukraine on a path that leads to intrigue and suspense...

THERE GOES BARDER (1955) Eddie Constantine, May Brit, Roger Saget.  Eddie plays a less than reputable, devil-may-care con-man.  He finds himself approached by a shady ship owner Saget, who was impressed with Eddie's fighting skills.  Saget wants Eddie to become one of his security investigators.  His job: hunt down the criminal responsible for making off with Saget’s company funds and hijacking his cargo...

MISSION PHANTOM (1967) Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller.  If you don’t take this film too seriously, you’ll probably love it.  A shoddy band of “free souls” from a variety of countries and backgrounds are gathered together to pull off what seems to be a clearly "impossible" caper.  This involves breaking into a highly-guarded place with seemingly impenetrable security...

(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...

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...

DANGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1960) Françoise Arnoul, Rosanna Schiaffino, Michel Piccoli, François Patrice, Claude Cerval.  This well-made intrigue thriller (7.3 on IMDB!) is about career criminal who dies while trying to pull one last coup before retiring.  He dies with knowledge of secret papers that are worth a fortune.  And so the hunt begins...

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970, Updated 4-18-25) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get it back.  One of them is the beautiful Soledad Miranda, who poses as an exotic dancer while trying to track down the criminals who stole the mineral.  Williams was the big star of this film, but he is overshadowed by the beauty and persona of Miranda, who died tragically shortly after this film was completed.  English subs.  Great color, 35mm.  

(1956, Updated 4-10-25) Rod Cameron, Lois Maxwell, Peter Illing, Clifford Evans, Cameron is once again a tough private detective who, on his way to meet a fellow investigator on a foggy London night, tumbles headfirst into a mystery—his pal has been murdered!  The big clue is a dropped passport that leads Cameron to a secret neo-Nazi ring, which is somehow connected to the International League For World Peace...

(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...