(1986, Anamorphic Widescreen) Valeria D'Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio, Barbara Scoppa.  A man discovers his wife has been having an affair.  This results in a heated argument. Not much later she’s found deader than a doornail...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel is “The World at Bay” by veteran science fiction writers B. Wallis & Geo. C. Wallis.  They came from inside the earth, an invasion of strange, short, pale creatures. The second novel is Capt. S. P. Meek’s “The Red Peril,” which is a great tale from the golden age of Amazing Stories magazine...

(1966-1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karin Dor, Uwe Beyer, Rolf Henniger, Herbert Lom, Siegfried Wischnewski, Maria Marlow, Christian Rode, Hans von Borsody, Terence Hill, Fred Williams, directed by Harald Reinl. Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy was originally released in the U.S. as a single feature film.  However, like Fritz Lang’s Journey to the Lost City, it was culled from two separate films...

(1934) Richard Bird, Lorna Hubbard, Geoffrey Wardwell, George Zucco, Francis L. Sullivan.  A young man quarrels with his Uncle about the girl he wants to marry.  The uncle threatens to disinherit him. The next morning the uncle turns up dead—his throat cut!  In an engaging courtroom scene, the nephew is tried for murder.  But if the nephew isn’t guilty, then who is the killer?...

 (1976) Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry, Charles Kay, Edward Hardwicke, Charles Keating.   There’s a werewolf afoot in a sinister old castle!  It all centers around the surviving admirers of an aging countess (wonderfully played by Whitelaw) who have gathered in her isolated castle to pay their respects.  However, it doesn’t take them long to realize that they will never be permitted to leave—alive...

 (1971) Anthony Ainley, Jennifer Hilary, Bernard Brown, Derek Benfield, Gerald Sim.  This amazing British teleplay concerns a doctor who returns home from the hospital following a car accident, only to be told he’s not who he is.  Another doctor, with the same name, is living with his wife.  He is told that he is suffering from...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a terrific tale of interplanetary conflict, R. H. Roman’s “The War of the Planets.”  It was a tremendous battle of three worlds. The second novel is by that great science fiction storyteller, David H. Keller, M. D., “The Feminine Metamorphosis.”  When a hospital sprung up in the middle of rural China, no one thought much of it...

(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...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Rod "Flash" Ilush, Bella Cortez, Liliana Zagra, Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell.  Another beautiful upgrade of one of our most popular S&S titles.  There are lots of horror and fantasy elements here—Ancient gods, lizard-like monsters, and strange underground creatures...

(1965, aka OPERATION HURRICAN: FRIDAY NOON, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal, Helga Schlack, Helmut Fornbacher, Philippe Guégan. This is the first Jerry Cotton movie and it's a pretty good one.  Jerry’s after a gang of crooks who pose as a musical band as a front for their nefarious schemes.  They pull off numerous heist and eventually plan to blow up a school full...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Walter Brandi, Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Isarco Ravaioli.  The opening scene of this movie is pretty cool—a girl at night by a waterfall, howling dogs, screeching night birds and…you guessed it…a hideous, bloodthirsty vampire.  Things get exciting when...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Valley of Invisible Men” by one of the best science fiction authors of the 20^th Century, Edmond Hamilton.  A lost race, empowered by the might of a lost god!  The second novel is “Doorway to Hell” by renowned science fiction author and editor Raymond A. Palmer.  Did hell’s gates really yawn before him?...

(1947) James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Henry Oscar.  A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity.  Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself.  When a death occurs...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Tower Treasure,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves looking for a hidden stash of stolen jewels and securities. Their only clues are the words of a dying criminal: “I hid it in the old tower.” What follows is...

(1977, Anamorphic Widescreen) Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský.  This is a brilliant Czech-made sci-fi comedy with many great moments.  A former Nazi, now living in the 1990s by virtue of anti-aging pills, plans to travel through time to 1944 Germany and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb so the Nazis can win the war...

(1956) Tommy Terrell, Arthur Space, Bruce Cowling, Gavin Gordon. Terrell and his robot, Tobor, land aboard an atomic sub that’s been heisted by criminals.  The sub also has a ticking bomb on board and has been targeted for a nuclear strike!  Gordon (Bride of Frankenstein) has a nice part as a madman who wants to rule the world.  A little schlocky but good fun.  

(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...

(1926, Universal Jewel) Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey, Alan Roscoe, Jack Curtis.  Hoot’s a Hollywood movie-cowboy who gets in a jam when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas.  He soon finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between a shady “development” company and the local ranchers...