(1935) Paul Kelly, Marguerite Churchill, Russell Hardie, Walter Fenner. After cracking up during a race, Kelly seeks another line of work. He and Hardie soon open up a garage, only to be squeezed by

(1963) Peter Van Eyck, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott.  Five men of different nationalities labor at an oil station in the dusty, dry wilds of the Sahara.  Just when tensions seem taut amongst them, a sexy blonde (Baker) and her ex-hubby arrive at the station...

1930) Disc one:  Morocco. Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou.  Dietrich is the sultry singer who casts a spell over the, devil-may-care Legionnaire Cooper... Disc two: The Dawn Patrol. Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., dir. by Howard Hawks.  A WW1 ace causes endless trouble for his boss...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1936) starring Ian Keith, Tala Birell, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Suzanne Kaaren, Warner Richmond, and Teru Shimada.  What a treat this film turned out to be!  In 1905, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever (Yellow Jack), which is ravaging the canal workers.  You're shot dead if you try and escape...

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...

(1943) Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn Williams, Chick Chandler, Grant Withers, Emma Dunn. A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Dark Atlantis” by David Craigie is the 33rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  What deadly secrets awaited them in the ocean’s depths?  Professor Jules Frapillion craved adventure as much as his best friend, American adventurer, Rodney Harding, going so far as to create insane contraptions to go where no man had dared...

(1956) Curt Jurgens, Geneviève Page, Jacques Dacqmine, Sylva Koscina, Gerard Buhr, Louis Arbessier.  19^th century Tartar unrest throws Russia into turmoil and the Czar desperately needs to communicate with his brother.  Unfortunately, his sibling (a Duke) is stuck behind enemy lines.  Jurgens (the Czar’s agent) is given the task of getting the message through...

(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)...

(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...

(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...

FEAR NO MORE (1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding.  Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from L.A. to S.F.  She soon finds herself accused of murder when a corpst is found in her compartment. PLUS:  SHIP OF THE DEAD (1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid.  A GREAT movie. A taut story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal.  Buckholz is tops as a human castoff, in international limbo because of a lost passport.  

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Glyphs," our 29th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Hoping to find the truth about a hidden metropolis with rare glyphs (records carved on stone by a lost people), a band of daring adventurers, comprised of a scientific thief, a chiseled big game hunter, and a well-off “out-of-doors” man, travel halfway round the world to a savage jungle within the heart of South America...