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...

(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...

(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...  

(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... 

(1944) Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Jack LaRue, Charles Arnt. Lowery is in Central America when he gets word that he’s inherited 200K from his late grandfather.  He hops aboard a ship to head back to the states, but it turns out to be filled with danger...

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, 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...

(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...

(1926) John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland.  Recognized as one of the great silent swashbucklers, Don Juan is filled with grandiose action and devil-may-care characters.  As silent films go it’s a real wow...

S.O.S. PACIFIC (1959) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli. Eddie’s BEST film. Eddie’s a tough sailor being flown to the mainland for trial. Also aboard is the snake who

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...

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.