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A PLACE OF ONE’S OWN (1945) James Mason, Dennis Price, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Ernest Thesiger.  In this often chilling ghost story, Mason and his wife (and their beautiful young companion, Lockwood) move into an eerie old mansion that’s been vacant for forty years.  Strange things begin to happen: voices are heard from nowhere, pianos playing in the night, etc.  It’s soon obvious that the ghost of a murdered woman is afoot...

ALABAMA’S GHOST (1973) Christopher Brooks, Peggy Browne, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Steven Kent Browne, Ken Grantham.  A nightclub stage manager stumbles upon a forgotten, secret chamber underneath his nightclub.  Inside is an old magician's belongings.  He tries on the costume and…voila…he becomes "Alabama, King of the Cosmos."  His new identity leads to a lot more than he bargained for...

APRIL 1st, 2000 (1952) Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Judith Holzmeister.  In the year 2000 the world is run by the World Global Union.  Smaller countries are still allowed to have their own puppet governments, but none have total freedom—that is, until Austria’s new President declares his country’s freedom.  But within hours WGU forces are streaking toward Austria...

THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY (1939) Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden, Anthony Bushnell.  A star English football player collapses right on the field during a big game.  When the dust settles, it’s discovered that the player was murdered!  But how…and by who?  Enter a snappy but serious police inspector played brilliantly by Banks...

AVENGER OF THE SEVEN SEAS—Widescreen Edition (1962) Richard Harrison, Michelle Mercier, Roldano Lupi, Paul Muller, Marisa Belli.  Harrison, a seasoned British navy officer, goes toe to toe with his own captain, who has thrown Richard’s brother in the brig.  After freeing his brother, Harrison joins up with a band of pirates to take down his corrupt commanding officer...

This great collection features four Bob Steele classics:  TEXAS BUDDIES (1932 World Wide) Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Francis MacDonald, Gabby Hayes. GALLOPING ROMEO (1933, Monogram) Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Gabby Hayes.  DESERT PATROL (1938, Republic) Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Rex Lease, Ted Adams.  THE FEUD MAKER (1938, Republic) Bob Steele, Marion Weldon, Karl Hackett.  

This great collection features four Kermit Maynard classics:  TRAILS OF THE WILD (1935, Ambassador) Billie Seward, Fuzzy Knight, Robert Frazer, Wheeler Oakman.  TIMBER WAR (1935, Ambassador) Lucille Lund, Lawrence Gray, Wheeler Oakman.  PHANTOM PATROL (1936, Ambassador) Joan Barclay, Harry Worth, Paul Fix, Roger Williams. SONG OF THE TRAIL (1936, Ambassador) Kermit Maynard, Evelyn Brent, Fuzzy Knight, Wheeler Oakman. 

This great collection features four Rex Bell classics:  THE TONTO KID (1934, Resolute) Theodore Lorch, Ruth Mix, Buzz Barton.  SADDLE ACES (1936, Resolute) Ruth Mix, Buzz Barton, Roger Williams.  LAW AND LEAD (1936, Colony) Harley Wood, Lane Chandler, Wally Wales.  WEST OF NEVADA (1936, Colony) Rex Bell, Joan Barclay, Al St. John, Forrest Taylor.  

This great collection features four Tom Tyler classics:  MYSTERY RANCH (1934, Reliable) Roberta Gale, Jack Perrin. THE FIGHTING HERO (1934, Reliable) Renee Borden, Edward Hearn. FAST BULLETS (1936, Reliable) Rex Lease, Al Bridge, Margaret Nearing. THE LOST RANCH (1937, Victory) Jeanne Martel, Lafe McKee.

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS—Special Widescreen Edition (1961) Claude Rains, Bill Carter.  This two-disc special edition features a beautiful widescreen foreign language edition with English subtitles on one disc, with the English-language full screen edition on the other.  The plot is simple but fun: Earth may be destroyed by a runaway planet controlled by a giant computer...  

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Beyond the Walls of Space” by S. M. Tenneshaw.  Earth was in peril, threatened by a veiled planet that was much closer than anyone dreamed of.  The second novel is “The Secret of the Ninth Planet” by heralded science fiction author and editor, Donald A. Wollheim.  Could the fantastic mystery that shielded the greatest threat mankind had ever faced be solved in time...?

THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Vincent Ball.  This B-film crime-quickie has minor elements of both horror and sci-fi.  Hanley is an effervescent reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen a motorcycle near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...?  

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great illustrated edition of that space opera classic, “The Black Star Passes” by one of the early masters of science fiction, John W. Campbell.  It was three against the stars!  A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" is the twenty-first installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  An early classic of adventure and horror!  It is one of the strangest sea-faring horror tales ever told and was admired greatly by horror fiction legend, H. P. Lovecraft.

THE BURNING COURT—Widescreen Edition (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob. Finally—a beautiful widescreen edition of this horror-mystery classic!  A most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  Scob plays the lovely descendant of an ancient witch who was wronged by her lover, and whose descendants she cursed...

CARNIVAL OF ILLUSIONS (1946 aka DEVIL AND THE ANGEL) Erich Von Stroheim, Madeleine Sologne, Louis Salou, Yves Vincent, Claudine Dupuis.  This is one of the great Von Stroheim films.  He was billed as the “man you love to hate,” but in this film he gave one of his most sympathetic roles as a prim and proper currency expert at a government mint, whose life spirals into desperation and crime...

CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders.  Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  This double features two tales of futuristic military conflict.  The first novel is another Edmond Hamilton classic, “Cities in the Air.” It’s typical of Hamilton’s great work from the 1930s.  The second novel, “The War of the Planets” is authored by one of Edmond Hamilton’s contemporaries, Harl Vincent...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is the first of a three-part series by S. J. Byrne, “Colossus.”  The second novel is Robert Moore Williams’ chilling sci-fi horror tale, “Isle of Doom”...

COUNTERBLAST (1948) Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam.  Grim germ warfare sci-fi thriller about an escaped WWII Nazi doctor and his sinister plot to bring the Nazis into world domination.  He murders and then impersonates an Australian doctor so he can work on his devilish plans right in the heart of a small English town.  His objective:  to use a new super-disease against Germany’s enemies...

DANGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1960) Françoise Arnoul, Rosanna Schiaffino, Michel Piccoli, François Patrice, Claude Cerval.  This well-made intrigue thriller (7.3 on IMDB!) is about career criminal who dies while trying to pull one last coup before retiring.  He dies with knowledge of secret papers that are worth a fortune.  And so the hunt begins...

DEATH BY INVITATION—WIDESCREEN EDITION (1971) Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips, Norman Parker.  This film opens in olden times with a young woman being dragged into a grimy building and condemned as a witch.  She is later killed by the villagers.  Leverington plays both the witch from the past and a beautiful young gal from present day who is possessed by her dead relative’s spirit...

DEATH DIVE (1974, aka SUBMARINE OF HORROR aka FER DE LANCE) David Janssen, Hope Lange, Jason Evers.  Remember the film Snakes on a Plane from a few years ago?  Well this movie goes back even further and could just as easily be called, “Snakes on a Submarine.”  A crewman on a huge submarine has smuggled aboard a big container of deadly snakes, which escape and start putting the bite on everyone...

DEATH HAUNTS MONICA (1976) Nadiuska, Arturo Fernández, Jean Sorel, Karin Schubert, Damian Velasco.  This is a pretty good Spanish Giallo complete with good guys in trench coasts and mysterious killers.  A beautiful, wealthy lady is implicated in a series of horrible murders.  She ends up running the gauntlet of numerous plot twists and subplots...

THE DESIGNATED VICTIM—Widescreen (1971) Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Marisa Bartoli.  An oddball count becomes friends with a frustrated businessman.  Together they work out a scheme in which the count will bump off the businessman’s loveless wife, while the businessman will rub out the Count’s unpleasant brother... 

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get it back.  One of them is the beautiful Soledad Miranda, who poses as an exotic dancer while trying to track down the criminals who stole the mineral.  Williams was the big star of this film, but he is overshadowed by the beauty and persona of Miranda, who died tragically shortly after this film was completed.  English subs.  Great color, 35mm.  

THE DEVIL PLAYS (1931) Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Christy.  This quickie was distributed by the king of poverty row murder mysteries, Chesterfield Pictures.  In a nutshell, the film deals with a murder mystery that takes place over one long weekend at an expensive mansion...

DEVILMAN STORY—Widescreen Edition (1967) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys.  Madison is a journalist who gets involved in the search for a leading brain surgeon, who has mysteriously disappeared.  The search takes him to the African desert where they discover Devilman.  Devilman’s plans are simple: using a new brain-transplanting procedure, he intends to rule the world...

DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1953) John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, dir. by John Gilling.  This is a nifty little crime film about a photograph that catches what is deemed to be a suicide, only—you guessed it—it’s not really a suicide, but murder!  Dant! Dant! Dah!  And of course, the photographer soon discovers she’s being stalked by the killer... 

DRACULA IN PAKISTAN (1967) Yasmeen Shaukat, Deeba Begum.  In this, Pakistan’s first horror film, Hammer’s Horror of Dracula was remade.  And even though there are many sequences that have nothing to do with its Hammer counterpart, there are many sequences that are obvious facsimiles...

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie’s an alien mad scientist whose mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in an invasion.  PLUS:  MISSION STARDUST (1968) Lang Jeffries, John Karlsen, Essy Persson. A space hero, backed by a team of astronauts, heads to the moon to rescue a blonde alien babe who seeks the aid of a blood scientist to help save her dying race...

CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976—Full Widescreen, 35mm) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  One of the best drive-in horror movies of the ‘70s.  Plus:  DEVIL KISS (1975, Full Widescreen) Silvia Solar, Olivier Othot, Jose Nieto, Evelyne Scott.  A great Euro-horror thriller about a psychic countess and mad scientist...

ISLAND OF TERROR (1966, Full Widescreen) Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne.  Things go terribly wrong in a research lab on an isolated British island and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters is created.  PLUS:  THE PROJECTED MAN (1966, Full Widescreen) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments...

THE BLOODY JUDGE (1970, Full Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Howard Vernon.  Lee is superb as an evil judge who condemns citizens to be burned as witches... PLUS:  LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST (1971, Full Widescreen) Simon Brent, Neda Arneric, Sheila Allen.  A Nazi scientist and a female "spider goddess" try to develop a poison gas derived from spider venom.