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...

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...

(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...

(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)...

(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...

(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...

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...

(1955) Paul Meurisse, Pedro Armendariz, Folco Lulli, Fernand Ledoux, Leopoldo Frances.  This is a filmed adaptation of an adventure from the 1930s.  The story involves an escaped prisoner from a Middle East conflict who sneaks onto a French craft loaded with weapons for sale. Mucho action and adventure follows, including a great storm sequence...

(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...  

SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID (1962) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski.  In a change of pace role, Lee plays a determined FBI agent sent in to help Scotland Yard track down a murdering blackmailer and help bust up their crime syndicate.  PATTERN FOR PLUNDER (1962) Keenan Wynn, Ronald Howard, Mai Zetterling.   What a cool B-movie this is.  A group of WW2 vets seek a fortune in Nazi loot.  Their search leads to an ancient castle nestled by a beach riddled with quicksand...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...