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...

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...

(1941) Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston, Ronald Shiner.  Mills (young Bill) enlists in the British Army to help his country against the Nazi threat.  Not to be undone by his offspring, Graham (Old Bill) decides to do his part and sign up, too...

(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...

Harry Millard, Judy Lewis, Mike Bradford, Nancy Berg, Ted Irwin, Richard Kuss.  Here ya go—a schlocky, American-made drive-in movie about fast cars, hot women, and rugged, grease-covered men, all set to a background of cheap rock and roll music and featuring a surprisingly good cast of complete unknowns...

(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

(1936) Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola, Michel Simon, Jacques Coopeau, Pierre Renoir.  This is a grand film about political turmoil in 19^th century Russia.  Fresnay plays a young student preparing for a long career working in the Czarist government.  His life is thrown into turmoil though...

(1929, MGM) Desert Nights. This was John Gilbert’s last silent picture, and it’s a good one.  He plays the somewhat roguish manager of a South African diamond company.  A couple of thieves, posing as English aristocrats kidnap him... Speedway. William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane, John Miljan.  Grand fun as Haines and Torrence vie for best driver at the Indianapolis Speedway...

(1929, MGM) Condemned! Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer.  Colman, a suave thief, is sentenced to a stretch at Devil's Island.... Madame X.  Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Sidney Toler. A disgraced woman is forcibly parted from her young son...

(1929, RKO) Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady, Harry Semels.  La Rocque is a greased-back-hair rogue of a pirate who has sailed his stolen yacht into a port where he encounters a pretty American singer in an oceanfront honky-tonk.  The singer is already the subject of the affections of a jealous American, who soon finds himself in La Rocque’s clutches...

(1928, Paramount) Erich Von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz, George Fawcett.  Von Stroheim is a financially ruined European prince whose royal family gives him the ultimatum—marry into wealth or shoot himself!  Wray is a Viennese innkeeper’s daughter who is promised in marriage to a local butcher!  By chance Erich and Fay meet during a parade, after which they fall in love—much to the chagrin of their parents...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1927) Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Moisha Yudelson.  Although largely a silent film, this cinema classic went down in history as the first talking feature film, with numerous scenes shot in sound, primarily those with Jolson singing (the silent sections were accompanied by a Vitaphone music score).  Al plays a young Jewish kid, raised by a strict...