(1945) Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan, Luisa Rossi, Romano Calo.  After busting out of a Nazi prison train, an American and a British soldier set out across Italy, heading for the Swiss border.  Lots of action, adventure, and intrigue follows as they eventually find themselves leading a group of war refugees toward the border and freedom...  

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...

(1958) Jean Négroni, Mokhi, Uroz. Narrated by George Sanders.  Wow!  What we’ve got here is essentially a LOST George Sanders film (he did the narration for this, the AIP American edition), now on video for the first time.  It’s not listed in any of his film listings anywhere we could find—and it’s a pretty good film, too (6.2 on IMDB). This rollicking tale concerns a young adventurer’s exciting, difficult journey to Kabul, all the while being accompanied by a strange horseman...

(1960) Richard Devon, Ron Kennedy, Roger Corman.  Two American soldiers are stranded on a Pacific Island swarming with Japanese soldiers.  They must survive until the war's end when they will be rescued by U.S. forces...

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...

(1926) John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland.  Recognized as one of the great silent swashbucklers, Don Juan is filled with grandiose action and devil-may-care characters.  As silent films go it’s a real wow...

(1949) Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Annie Mörk, Rauha Rentola, Heikki Savolainen.  This is a terrific Finnish action-drama film about two brothers: the eldest serious and dull, the youngest wild and full of life.  Their family is ruled with an iron hand by their aging, petulant mother.  Both men fall for the same girl.  When the youngest is framed for murder...

(1934) Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Hugh Wakefield. Walls is a wealthy Englishman who flies to a foreign country to recoup some stolen loot from a young troublemaker.  He lands smack dab in the middle of a revolution...

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

(1928) Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush.  This silent classic was a big, epic production in its day, with lots of great location shots in the South Seas (an Oscar for Cinematography). Blue gives a grand portrayal of a drunken doctor who has the reputation of a “white god"...

(1927) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler.   One of the truly great silent films. Farrell, as Chico, is a Paris sewer worker who falls in with Diane (Gaynor), a prostitute in reputation only, but still a target of the French police.  Chico saves her...