(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro.  A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.  Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...

(1963, Parade, Aka CAVALRY COMMAND) John Agar, Richard Arlen, Pancho Magalona, Myron Healey.  Here’s something not too common:  an old fashioned western set in the Philippines.  In 1902, Agar leads a Calvary troop against rebels who infest the surrounding jungle...

THE GREAT WALL—Widescreen Edition (1962) Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Hiroshi Kawaguchi.  The time is 221 BC. The place is ancient China.  Warlord Qin Shihuangdi becomes emperor and rules over most of China. This lavish epic depicts the history of Qin's exploits, including the building of the Great Wall.  It’s filled with action and intrigue in the best traditions of epic filmmaking...

THE REBEL’S SON (1938) Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey. In the 16th century the Cossacks revolt against the Polish government.  They are led by Taras Bulba, played brilliantly by Baur.  Just as good is Bushell in the role of his educated but wayward son.  The final battle scenes are terrific and the climactic confrontation between Baur and Bushell is very memorable...

FANTOMAS VS. THE IRON CLAW (1969) Demir Karahan, Nebahat Çehre, Yildirim Gencer, Feri Cansel.  This likeable piece of Turkish shlock is about two masked adversaries:  The Iron Claw fights for justice, while the other, Fantomas, is a master criminal.  They do battle while the world watches on.  There are tons of shoot-outs, fistficuffs, and nightclub numbers featuring belly dancers...

SLAVE GIRLS OF SHEBA (1961) José Suárez, Linda Cristal, Cristina Gaioni, Hélène Chanel, Walter Barnes.  Much of this action thriller deals with the Saracen pirates of "Black Eagle" who attack Christian strongholds along the coast of Spain.  Things get very tense though when they stop off in Sheba to re-up their supplies, and also pick up a bevy of female slaves...

A WOMAN OF EVIL (1954, aka QUEEN MARGOT) Jeanne Moreau, Armando Francioli, Robt. Porte, Françoise Rosay, Andre Versini, script by Abel Gance. This Euro-thriller is filled with a nice blend of action and intrigue.  Included are scenes depicting the massacre of the protestants at St. Bartholomew; also Huguenot women being put to the sword by...

(1942, PRC) Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Ernest Dorian, Corrina Mura, Tommy Seidel.  How do you accurately describe this movie?  It's really awful, yet mesmerizing in its awfulness.  It's not a schlocky bad like Plan 9 from Outer Space, rather, it's like a really pitiful attempt at...

(1962) Kyôko Enami, Shiho Fujimura, Kôji Fujiyama, Kôjirô Hongô.  This film could almost be in our fantasy or horror sections.  Once a year a small Japanese fishing village is terrorized by a gigantic whale, which has taken the lives of many of the villagers.  The whale is twice the size of a normal whale and is seemingly invincible in an almost supernatural sense...

Special 35mm Edition (1932, RKO) Joel McCrea, Delores Del Rio, John Halliday, Skeets Gallagher, Lon Chaney, Bert Roach.  Don’t let this pansy-sounding title fool you, this is one of the greatest adventure epics of the 1930s, complete with jungle islands, erupting volcanoes, bloodthirsty natives, whirlpools, mighty sailing ships, killer sharks, giant sea turtles, etc...

(1977) Stuart Whitman, Woody Strode, Gheorghe Dinica, Tony Kendall.  An exciting thriller about a big, out of control oil field fire out in the wilds of the Sahara desert.  Whitman plays the oil fire expert who’s sent in to put out the massive blaze...

(1958) John Slater, Christopher Warbey, Richard George, Joan Newell.  Slater’s quest is to re-acquire his family’s fishing boat, which the family was forced to sell to help pay funeral costs.  Unfortunately, the boat, The Cascade, is owned by three swarthy fishermen who plan to wreck the boat and claim insurance money...

(1938, Monogram) Harry Carey, Judith Allen, Milburn Stone, Betty Compson.  Allen plays a nightclub singer who witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him.  After escaping his clutches, she secretly boards Carey’s China-bound ship...

(1935) Andre Roosevelt, E. Erskine Loch, Carol Jeffries. Roosevelt was famed for his real-life safaris.  In this adventure thriller, he combines his documentary footage with live action footage that was shot to give the film a dramatic storyline.  He falls in with a pretty dame, whom he saves from a weird cult tribe... 

(1974, aka MARTIAL ARTS) Wai-Man Chan, Chin Hu, Fung-Lan Li.  This Kung Fu drive-in epic follows the ups and downs of a young martial arts aficionado with a plethora of high octane fight scenes thrown in for good measure.  The fight choreography is excellent with plenty of those hokey kung-fu-blow sound effects throughout...

SHOOTOUT AT BIG SAG (1962) Walter Brennan, Don Robinson, Luana Patten, Leif Erickson, Les Tremayne.  An engaging action-western drama.  Brennan is the pawn of his bossy wife, who wants a range war with Erickson.  It doesn’t help that Walter’s daughter and Leif’s son have fallen in love. Tremayne, is great as the sleazy saloon owner hired to “seal the deal” in favor of Walter’s family...