(1929, Goldwyn) Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Joan Bennett.  This is an amazing early talkie; it looks and plays much more like a late ‘30s film than something from 1929.  WW1 vet Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond longs for excitement after returning to a boring post-war existence. His wish is granted when a young woman enlists his aid in freeing her uncle from a suspicious nursing home...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1929, Paramount) Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell, Donald Meek, Alan Brooks, Nellie Savage.  Robinson leads a group of con artists who use a phony lady psychic to scam wealthy but gullible socialites...

(1930) Dorothy Boyd, Nigel Bruce, Audrey Carten, David Hawthorne, Frank Lawton.  This early British talkie, while a bit stiff, features a great cast, with Smith turning in an especially fine performance.  A murder occurs mid-way into the film, but it’s a mystery to the folks on screen...

 (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg, Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Friedrich Joloff.  The utterly imposing Dartmoor prison is surrounded on all sides by perilous swamps.  Yet a dozen prisoners have escaped in recent years—none of whom have ever been seen again...

(1929) William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur; Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young. Here are two solid Philo Vance mysteries for your enjoyment. Disc one:  The Greene Murder Case features a wealthy but disreputable family gathering for its once a year get-together at their spooky ancestral castle... Disc two: In The Bishop Murder Case, the corpse of a man called "Cock Robin" turns up on an archery range with an arrow through his heart...

(1963, Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen) Lucy Kelly, Annabelle Lee, George Edgely, Max Anderson.  One of our favorite exploitation films.  A busty sex kitten makes her move on her old Uncle Shug, who showers her with money in return for “favors.”  There’s just one hitch...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Maracot Deep” by Arthur Conan Coyle is the 60th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, coming complete with over two dozen original illustrations and graphics. It was a trip into the unknown they would never forget...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Caves,” Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a woman who was on her way to see their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy. Her brother has disappeared and she pleads for the detective’s help...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Mystery of Cabin Island,” Frank and Joe Hardy head out to spend some time in a cabin on a remote island near their hometown of Bayport. Little do they know that other furtive characters are out to cause them trouble...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “White Python” by Mark Channing is the 62nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. “White Python” is a thrilling novel of adventure in the mystic, secret lamasery in Tibet where the White Python is worshipped by strange underworld creatures and by the naked, pagan high priestess Gynia...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “A Subterranean Adventure” by George Paul Bauer is the 59th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, illustrated by that master science fiction artist, Frank R. Paul. When reading through the June 1930 issue of Wonder Stories magazine...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm.  Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman.  The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...

(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

(1929) Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Bela Lugosi; Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield.  The Thirteenth Chair is a good early-talkie whodunit... Seven Keys to Badpate is a well-done old dark hotel comedy-thriller...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

(1959, Anamorphic Edition) Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc, Luisella Boni, Luciano Marin, Pierre Cressoy.  Riding into danger is a masked vigilante called the Dark Knight.  His advisory is a cruel ruler (played by longtime sword and sandal veteran Serato) who has seized and imprisoned the peaceful ruler of nearby region...