(1957) Arturo Cordova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raul Meraz, Augusto Benedico. A businessman discovers the body of a freshly murdered man in his office building late at night. He is blamed and convicted of

(1934) Hans Albers, Brigitte Helm, Michael Bohnen, Ernst Kachow, Friedrich Kaybler.  This is a great early sci-fi thriller.  Albers (The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes) is terrific as the lone survivor of lab experiment for creating gold that was sabotaged by Bohnen, a power-mad industrialist.  Much later Bohnen persuades Albers to help him with his own gold experiments in a massive laboratory deep beneath the ocean—a laboratory filled with gigantic equipment and generators...

Three more science fiction classics from Robert Silverberg.  One of the most notable contributers to Ace Books’ science fiction double novel series of the 1950s and 1960s was Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, who graced Ace’s pages with a dozen novels over a seven-year period,1957-1964... 

(1961) Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon, Bice Valori, Liana Orfei.  A couple of boxing promoters use a time machine to travel back to ancient times.  They end up needing Hercules to save them from Genghis Khan and his Hordes...

(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...

(1941) Aleksey Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, A. Andriyenko-Zemskov.  This is a terrific Russian version of the classic Jules Verne science fiction-adventure tale.  Five fugitives escape from a mob during the middle of a Civil War battle by stealing a hot air balloon.  They soon find themselves deposited on a crag-riddled island filled with peril, including wild apes marauding pirates, and a primitive caveman...

(1958) Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley, Terence Longdon, Clive Dunn, Charles Hawtrey.  This is a fine little British adventure-comedy with a nice touch of science fiction at the film’s climax.  A down on his luck writer thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he decides to write a book about the Loch Ness Monster...

(1976) Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner.  A castaway arrives on a strange island with high, rocky cliffs. He stumbles upon a futuristic set of buildings, which are fabulous in design and interior contents.  Upon closer examination he discovers that everything is covered with dust—the buildings have been deserted for many years.  Then strange things start happening...

(1932) Conrad Veldt, Jill Esmond, Leslie Fenton. Right out of Amazing Stories. A gigantic floating platform is built in the mid-Atlantic for use as a oceanic airport. However, its destruction seems imminent...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg was a regular contributor to Ace’s Double Novel series.  Starting in 1957 through the mid-1960s, Bob saw a dozen of his novels (plus a short story collection) published in the Ace Double format.  In this, the first of two Armchair Fiction “Masters of Science Fiction” volumes covering these works, you get three of Bob’s best early Ace novels...

(1972) Alfred Edel, Helga Skalla, Curt Jurgens, Hark Bohm.  This futuristic piece of sci-fi was was originally made as a TV movie.  Willi (Edel) wants to get away from the horrors of galactic war, even if it means leaving his family.   He ends up becoming a PR man for a big wig in the space fleet...

FILIBUS (1915) Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino.  Great early silent super-criminal film with sci-fi elements.  Ruspoli is the sinister sky pirate, Filibus, who pulls off amazing robberies with her super-science airship. When she’s pursued by top-of-the-line detective Mariani, she initiates a  series of...

THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (1939) Erich Von Stroheim, Claude Dauphin, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Henri Guisol.  In one of the best sc-fi films of the 1930s, Von Stroheim plays a wealthy financier who has funded the experiments of a scientist played by Dauphin, who has perfected a machine that can predict the exact date of your death...

MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Charles Victor, Ernest Thesiger.  In this unique fantasy, Holloway plays an aging actor who hates television and what it’s done to his stage career.  When he carelessly dies in a stage accident, the devil gives him a chance to return to the living...