(1940) Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt, Charles Oliver, Gordon McLeod.  Radford and Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles as Charters and Caldicott, a couple of well-seasoned yet naïve British world travelers.  By the random act of ordering certain items off a menu, they find themselves the unwitting carriers of a phonograph record filled secret Nazi info.  Of course the Nazis try everything possible to eliminate them...  

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...

(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) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

(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...

(1949) Dorothea Paul, Betty Williams, Georgie Carey, Cedric Staples.  This obscure British sea-faring docu-drama is all about a lost infant found in a boat near a fishing village.  Having no way to trace his roots, he grows up in the village with his destiny seemingly out in the rolling waves of the ocean...

(1930) Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert.  Wolheim plays a hard-nosed boss of a railroad yard who befriends a young drifter, who previously was a railroad man himself.  Soon things get dicey when the boss’ girl starts to fall for the handsome newcomer.  The high speed train sequences are pretty amazing for the time... 

(1964) Jim Davis, Don 'Red' Barry, Margo Woode, R. Wayland Williams, Tris Coffin.  An inexperienced army lieutenant grabs five volunteers for a dangerous mission from which they may not return.  Their task is simple:  take out the North Korean mortar position that's been pounding U.S. supply convoys and preventing them from reaching the troops at the front line...

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.  

Here's a great collection of trailers from Monogram Pictures.  There are trailers to many great titles:  Federal Bullets (‘37), Under the Big Town (‘38), Fighting Mad (‘39), King of the Zombies (‘40), Murder by Invitation (‘41), Gentleman From Dixie (‘41), Spooks Run Wild (‘41), Klondike Fury (‘42)...

POLICE COURT (1932) Henry Walthall; SENSATION HUNTERS (1933) Arline Judge, Preston Foster; THE NUT FARM (1935) Wallace Ford, Betty Alden; A BRIDE FOR HENRY (1937) Anne Nagel, Warren Hull.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

A SCREAM IN THE NIGHT (1935) Lon Chaney, Zara Tazil; SOCIAL ERROR (1935) David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger; SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX (1935) Lon Chaney, Jack Mulhall; GHOST TOWN (1936) Harry Carey.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

SUICIDE SQUAD (1935) Norman Foster, Joyce Compton; THE RECKLESS WAY (1936) Kane Richmond, Marion Nixon; LIGHTNIN’ BILL CARSON (1936) Tim McCoy, Lois January; SPECIAL AGENT K-7 (1937) Walter McGrail, Irving Pichel.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

A MAN BETRAYED (1936) Eddie Nugent, Lloyd Hughes; RHYTHM IN THE CLOUDS (1937) Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull;  IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1937) Alan Baxter; THE GREAT FLAMARION (1946) Eric Von Stroheim, Dan Duryea.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

PARTY GIRL (1930) Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Judith Barrie; WINGS OF ADVENTURE (1930) Rex Lease; MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (1931) Hale Hamilton; HOTEL CONTINENTAL (1932) Theodore Von Eltz.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...