THE REBEL’S SON (1938) Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey. In the 16th century the Cossacks revolt against the Polish government.  They are led by Taras Bulba, played brilliantly by Baur.  Just as good is Bushell in the role of his educated but wayward son.  The final battle scenes are terrific and the climactic confrontation between Baur and Bushell is very memorable...

SHOOTOUT AT BIG SAG (1962) Walter Brennan, Don Robinson, Luana Patten, Leif Erickson, Les Tremayne.  An engaging action-western drama.  Brennan is the pawn of his bossy wife, who wants a range war with Erickson.  It doesn’t help that Walter’s daughter and Leif’s son have fallen in love. Tremayne, is great as the sleazy saloon owner hired to “seal the deal” in favor of Walter’s family... 

THE GREAT WALL—Widescreen Edition (1962) Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Hiroshi Kawaguchi.  The time is 221 BC. The place is ancient China.  Warlord Qin Shihuangdi becomes emperor and rules over most of China. This lavish epic depicts the history of Qin's exploits, including the building of the Great Wall.  It’s filled with action and intrigue in the best traditions of epic filmmaking...

THE KASHMIRI RUN (1969) Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastido, Julián Mateos, Gloria Cámara, Leonard Bell.  Post-Bonanza Roberts plays a former mountaineer hiding out in the wilds of Tibet.  Ahead of an onslaught by Chinese troops, who have occupied most of Tibet, Roberts tries to smuggle a noted scientist and a good-looking girl (of course) across the border to safety...

“Two Thousand Miles Below” is a rollicking science fiction adventure by Charles W. Diffin and our 14th entry in our “Lost World-Lost Race” series.  They came from WAY down under.  It was a brilliant idea…mining a dead volcano for a new source of energy.  But then things started happening...  

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels.  The first thriller is John N. Makris’ great tale of crime and murder, “Nightshade.”  This is a tale of a seductress, here lovers, and her loyal pawn.  This double novel’s second tale is another great tale of mystery & murder, “Once is Enough” by David Wright O’Brien.  There was a gun in his hand and a corpse on the floor...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Naked Fury” by heralded mystery writer Day Keene.  It’s a tale of power hungry men and dangerous women.  The second novel is a murder mystery set in the steamy jungles of Cuba, “Murder in Baracoa” by Paul E. Walsh.  He received a telegram of Death...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. “Frenzy” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by James O. Causey.  Shannon...she was a slut with a body like flame—hell’s own angel—wrapped up in murder and mayhem  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of murder and crime, “In this Corner—Death” by Emile C. Tepperman.  It was a good deed turned into a nightmare...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  S. P. Meek's "The Drums of Tapajos, Illustrated Edition" is the fifteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Beware the bizarre jungle drums that signaled Death...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Fred Ashley's "The Temple of Fire, Illustrated Edition" is the sixteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, and it features a plethora of typical lost world-lost race thrills, packed to the gills with ancient civilizations, strange sea creatures, uncharted islands, monstrous beasts, etc...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A.Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales" is the seventeenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  After weeks of toiling through treacherous country, Nicholas Graydon and his partners found themselves lost in the Peruvian wilderness on a hunt for lost Incan treasure...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Richard Tooker's "Inland Deep, Illustrated Edition" is the eighteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Clues from the forgotten past led them to an unknown world of terror.  A footprint had been found; a footprint only part human...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  David Douglas's "The Silver God of the Orang Hutan, Illustrated Edition" is the nineteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  In this tale, there’s a monstrous beast in darn near every chapte...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Frank Aubrey's "The King of the Dead" is the twentieth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost city where the dead come alive!  In this lost citadel lived a forgotten race whose people practiced weird sciences and dabbled in a strange form of magic...

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.

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Charles Willing Beale's "The Secret of the Earth" is the twenty-second installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world at the Polar Ice Cap.  Was it a hair-brained scheme, or would it be the most stupendous scientific journey ever undertaken by man...?

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A. Hyatt Verrill's "The World of the Giant Ants" is the twenty-third installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Giants really do exist!  While on an exploration of a far-off land, noted scientist Dr. Hendon, along with his faithful servant Tom, become stranded in a lost world filled with giant insects...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" is the twenty-fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world in the wilds of the Arctic!  Only in dim legends did mankind remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes, that is, until Victor Nelson's extraordinary adventure into the Arctic unknown...