(1960) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

(1960) Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, Paul Guers.  Marquand plays a drifter with a huge gambling debt to pay.  To square things with his lenders he’s sent off on a dangerous journey.  Sadly, his sweetheart thinks he has deserted her and marries another!  After hearing of this he does the logical thing and joins the foreign legion...

(1960) Debra Paget, Paul Christian, Walter Reyer, directed by Fritz Lang. Padget plays an exotic dancer who is coveted by an evil maharajah (she looks absolutely stunning). She's rescued by a daring adventurer.  They face many perils, including...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann.  As far as we know, Fritz Lang’s Journey to the Lost City has not been seen in an anamorphic format since its Colorscope release by AIP in 1960...

(1932) Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong.  One of the best jungle-horror thrillers ever made!  A mad Russian count hunts humans for sport on his sinister jungle island.  But when big game hunter McCrea is shipwrecked on his island, a macabre game of cat and mouse begins...

(1955, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tim Turner, Joan Rice, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor.  We’ve never been big fans of the “dog movies” of the 1930s (Rin Tin Tin, etc.), but this B-British action-crime film is really pretty good.  Plus it’s got Christopher Lee to boot!  Two British cops pursue a burglary suspect.  One of them is shot and killed...

(1936) John “Dusty” King, Jean Rogers, Hooper Atchley, Stanley Blystone., Al Bridge, Noah Beery, Lon Chaney.  This is the action-packed feature version of the Universal 13-chapter serial, Ace Drummond, directed by Ford Beebe. The nice thing about condensations like this is you get all the best stuff...

(1927) Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles E. Mack, Josef Swickard, Anna May Wong, Angelo Rossitto.  Costello and Swickard are fading San Francisco aristocracy. Disaster looms when an evil land shark (expertly played by Oland, who keeps his dwarf brother—Rossito—in a cage) attempts to steal their land...

 (1927) Russell Simpson, Charles Mack, Patsy Ruth Miller, Barney Oldfield.  We offer both a newly tinted version of this film along with the original B&W version.  Both editions are gorgeous.  Simpson plays a longtime horse trainer and racer, well known for his pro-horse standing in the community.  When the first automobiles come out, his son (Mack) finds himself torn...

(1961) Peter Cushing, Keith Mitchell, Adrienne Cori, Peter Arne, Kai Fischer, Martin Stephens. Exciting action with plenty of sword play as a forgotten British noble returns to claim his title and finds himself pitted against...

(1943) John Mills, Louis Bradfield, Ronald Millar, Jack Watling.  The crew of a British sub sets out on a secret mission.  Their task is to sink a huge German battleship that’s coming out to sea. Unfortunately, their target soon enters the Nazi-infested Baltic Sea...

(1935) Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, John Stuart, Adrienne Ames Walter Rilla, Patric Knowles, Eric Portman, George Zucco.  Kortner is great as the Sultan Abdul Hamid, who rules precariously over the Turkish Empire.  He lives in constant fear of assassination, but his chief of security (Asther) does a good job making his enemies “disappear.”  But he is swept off his feet when a beautiful British stage star comes into his life...

(1933) Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Billie Holiday, James P. Johnson, Moms Mabley.  Robeson is a convicted killer who escapes from a chain gang and sets up his own brutal empire in the wilds of Haiti.  After his minions revolt, he escapes into the jungle where...

(1937) Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, John Loder, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Arthur Sinclair, Sydney Fairbrother, Robert Adams. In our opinion this is the best of the many filmed versions of the H. Rider Hagard classic. Some truly spectacular lost world-lost race thrills as Hardwicke (as Allan Quartermain) leads an expedition in search of Lee's father who has wandered across the desert to the far mountains where no one returns from...alive...

(1959) J Radovan Lukavský, Jirí Vala, Jirina Svorcová, Stanislav Remunda.  Being that this is a communist film from Czechoslovakia, it’s quite well done and genuinely exciting at times—a little grim, too, in places.  The story concerns the Czech border guards of the late 1940s and their constant challenges in keeping the smuggler and refugee problem in check (pun intended)...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The City of Wonder” by E. Charles Vivian is the 36th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  They followed the danger-filled road to Kir-Asa!  With only rumor and an old journal to guide him, Philip Watkins employs Jack Faulkner and Cecil Bent for a turbulent adventure through steamy jungles and old ruins...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Strange Story of William Hyde” by Patrick and Terence Casey is the 35th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Where orchids grow the color of bright blood and the stones sing with the screams of unborn souls—where no white man had ever stepped before—lay the spectacular metropolis of Jallan Batoe...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Valley of Eyes Unseen” by Gilbert Collins is the 34th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Beyond the caravan trails that wind through the most treacherous desolation of Northern China, and past the mountain ranges that formed a vast frozen sea of snowy waves, lay the valley home of an ancient race, hidden from the world...