(1950, Universal) Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks, Ross Elliot.  B Film Noir movies honestly don’t get much better than this (7.2 on IMDB).  Ross Elliott plays a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing a gangland hit job while walking his dog.  He spends the rest of the movie on the run from the killer, the cops, and his wife (Sheridan), who finds herself on the run, too...

(1930, Warners, Paramount) Film one: The Widow from Chicago. Alice White, Edward G. Robinson, Neil Hamilton. A dame seeks revenge against a gangster for the murder of her brother... Film two: For the Defense.  William Powell, Kay Francis. Powell is a dapper defense attorney known for his ability to win acquittals for his underworld clients...

(1929-1935) Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis, Poetoe Aloes Goesti, Bagus Mara Goesti.  Why be Good? Hamilton, a dashing millionaire, throws a skyscraper party to celebrate his new job managing his dad's department store. Across town, one of his employees—Moore, a flapper with a dubious reputation... Dance of the Virgins. This engaging docu-drama, set in Bali, has to do with a native girl, Poutou falling for a musician...

(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...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Ganpat’s “The Voice of Dashin” 65^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Wandering the mountains of Northern India while on leave from his post in the British Indian Army, Major Louis Kervers would walk right into... 

(1929, Paramount) Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, Helen Ware, Chester Conklin, Eugene Pallette.  Cooper is the big-hearted cowboy who falls for the new schoolteacher, sweetly played by Mary Brian.  The local citizens are having a problem, though, with cattle rustling; and things are compounded when Coop finds out his best friend is connected to the rustlers...

(1947, aka SPRING) Lyubov Orlova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov, Faina Ranevskaya. This sci-fi comedy is a about a hard-nosed lady scientist who invents an amazing device for catching solar energy...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gracita Morales, José Vázquez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Trini Alonso, Goyo Lebrero.  Pablo and Luisita, a young married couple, take a job in Germany working as servants in the castle of the mysterious Baron de Rosenthal. After a few days they come to realize that their employer is not your normal run-of-the mill baron and that they’re actually working for a vampire...

(1961, Anamorphic Edition) Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo, Giacomo Furia, Gérard Herter.  Lupo, one of the best villains of the Peplum era, plays another dastardly dictator whose armies attack a nearby kingdom.  The rulers of the besieged capital city place a royal medallion around the neck of their infant son (Ursus) and have him removed from the city.  He ends up being raised by Lions...

(1930, MGM, Fox) Disc one:  The Unholy Three. Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliot Nugent.  Lon stars as a ventriloquist who leads a bizarre criminal trio consisting of himself, a strongman, and a midget... Disc two: Born Reckless.  Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan. A gangster is given a choice to go to the slammer or enlist in the army...

(1929, MGM) Roland Young, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead, Claude Fleming, Boris Karloff, John Miljan, Lionel Belmore, Polly Moran, Sōjin Kamiyama.  This early old dark house chiller has a lot of atmospheric moments.  Young is assaulted on a fog-cloaked London street but manages to escape death. But when it’s discovered that several other murder victims that evening were members of his WW1 army regiment...

(1936) Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola, Michel Simon, Jacques Coopeau, Pierre Renoir.  This is a grand film about political turmoil in 19^th century Russia.  Fresnay plays a young student preparing for a long career working in the Czarist government.  His life is thrown into turmoil though...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Treasure Vault of Atlantis” by Olof W. Anderson is the 58^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Would she be trapped in a vault forever?  To modern civilization, the lost world of Atlantis is a continent of myth and legend that...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret. This great sword & sandal film is filled with fantastic elements and supernatural creatures, including a cyclops and a gorgon.  Gemma plays Crius, the youngest of the Greek titans, all of whom are imprisoned by the gods.  Freedom for him and his brothers is promised in return for...

Harry Millard, Judy Lewis, Mike Bradford, Nancy Berg, Ted Irwin, Richard Kuss.  Here ya go—a schlocky, American-made drive-in movie about fast cars, hot women, and rugged, grease-covered men, all set to a background of cheap rock and roll music and featuring a surprisingly good cast of complete unknowns...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Aldo Canti, Carlo Tamberlani.  Kendall and Harris took time off from their Kommissar X series to do this lively sci-fi action comedy.  Harris is an FBI agent who joins up with Kendall and Canti, becoming self styled Supermen who battle crime while wearing bullet-proof super-suits...

(1962) Seamon Glass, Thayer Roberts, Mary Morias, Mary Morias, Michael Greene. Social sci-fi at its best. A state trooper stops people along a highway after hearing news of an impending nuclear attack. Good drama as cast members fight and quarrel over what to do before the bombs hit...

TEXAN (1930, Paramount) Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel.  Coop plays the Llano Kid. He gets involved in a saloon poker game that ends with him drilling a card shark...