(1951) Laurence Harvey, Maxwell Reed, Susan Shaw, Hermione Baddeley.  This underrated British action thriller is set in a rundown fairground.  There are lots of interesting characters on hand.  You’ve got Reed, a race car driver with a chip on his shoulder, and Harvey, an iron-jawed young boxer, both vying for the hand of a dancer played by beautiful Susan Shaw.  The film has a plethora of excitement...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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"...

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...

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.  “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...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “The Life Watch,” a brilliant imaginative yarn by master writer Lester del Rey. Th

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “Operation Square Peg,” is a gripping account by Frank Belknap Long of Earth’s battle against an alien invasion.  ALSO: "Enchantress of Venus" by Leigh Brackett.

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...