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...

(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...

(1967, aka KILL ME GENTLY) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Olga Schoberova, Christa Linder, Herbert Fux.  Tony and Brad hunt for missing LSD, stolen by a criminal gang.  They’re led to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film’s best action occurs. The scene where Tony hides in a bathtub with a nude gal is playfully erotic... 

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) 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.  

DEVILMAN STORY—Widescreen Edition (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 DEVIL’S AGENT—Widescreen Edition (1961) 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...

(1954) Paul Carpenter, Marsha Hunt, Henry Oscar, Honor Blackman.  Taut British thriller about a gang of smugglers.  An American diplomat and his wife land in London and are soon involved in a series of perplexing, sometimes terrifying events that defy logical explanation...

THE NEXT VICTIM (1971) Considered a landmark giallo film. An ambassador's sleazy wife discovers that either her husband, her ex-lover, or her current lover might actually be a sadistic slasher who has

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE (1967) Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Bobby Van, Mala Powers. A spaceship hurtles toward Venus.  Its crew is soon horrified as they see the Earth destroyed by a nuclear holocaust on their telescreen.  PLUS:  THE DESTRUCTORS (1967) Richad Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara.  Interesting sci-fi and espionage.  Spies are after "laser rubies," which can power killer laser beams.  

FACE IN THE RAIN (1963) Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti, Massimo Giuliani, Niall MacGinnis.  Calhoun plays a tough American spy on the run in Nazi-occupied Italy.  PLUS:  STOP TRAIN 349 (1963) Sean Flynn, Jose Ferrer, Nicole Courcel.  A marvelous film about an American Army train going from Berlin into the West Zone.  On board is an East German stowaway...

(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

(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...”