(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

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... 

(1929-1935) 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...

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964, Anamorphic) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy.  A playboy writer flies to a remote island filled with strange goings-on, hoping for the inspiration to a new book. He finds a mad scientist experimenting on natives, eventually turning them into raving zombies...THE MONSTER FROM THE SURF (1964, Anamorphic) Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Arnold Lessing, Elaine DuPont. Teens are slain on the beach by a big, hulking monster from an ocean cave. This is truly one of the goofiest monster movies you'll ever see with one of the most...

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Anitra Ford.  One of the most underrated horror films of the 1970s. A young woman comes to an out-of-the-way California coastal town searching for her... INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond.  Another blatantly schlocky ‘70s drive-in gem.  Men are dying in a small California town from having too much sex.  Government agent William Smith investigates after a scientist is...from 35mm.

LADY VAMPIRE (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi. The main vampire is actually a guy (with a dwarf servant).  He goes about dressed in a snappy suit, hat, and sun glasses.  He can be seen in a mirror, and is only turned into a vampire under the light... EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto. It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of...

(1929, Paramount) Neil Hamilton, Warner Oland, Doris Hill, Fredric March, Eugene Pallette.  An early whodunit with a great cast.  March plays a sleazebag-wannabe actor who’s been playing around with the wife of his director (Oland) as well as another young girl (Hill).  When Oland’s wife ends up dead, he confronts March with a knife...

(1929, United Artists, MGM) The Locked Door, Barbara Stanwyck, Rod La Rocque, William Boyd, Betty Bronson. Barbara’s first talkie.  Out on a wild party boat filled with booze and unsavory types, Barbara falls for a decadent sleazebag played by La Rocque... Voice of the City, Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, John Miljan.  This MGM crime quickie is about an escaped prisoner who’s really innocent...

(1930) Gerald du Maurier, Mabel Poulton, Ian Hunter, Gordon Harker, Edna Best.  This film begins with real life footage of a fox hunt—symbolic of what’s coming ahead.  Du Maurier defends the honor of a prostitute and ends up unintentionally killing a plain clothes detective.  He lands in the slammer...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. John Martin Leahy’s “Draconda” is a science fiction classic right out of the pages of Weird Tales magazine. The secrets of the universe have captivated scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. However, Henry Quainfan was determined to solve these secrets...

(1932) Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk, Philip Durant, Sybil Grove Verno plays a bemused office clerk who has grand ideas about his future.  He’s caught play acting in front of his boss’s mirror and is loudly reprimanded.  Concurrently, a convicted jewel thief is released from prison and tailed by the police in the hope of him leading them to a cache of stolen pearls...

(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...

(1930, 1929) Disc one: The Benson Murder Case. William Powell, Eugene Pallette, William “Stage” Boyd.  Philo Vance is called in to investigate a murder at a remote country estate... Disc two: Behind that Curtain.  Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Boris Karloff.  This atmospheric thriller follows a woman's desperate flight to escape her murderous husband...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections. In “Classic Super Scientist Tales from the Pulps” you get an amazing collection of vintage tales about the “genius” of pulp magazine scientists...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Hidden Staircase,” Nancy is asked to look into a series of weird, supernatural occurrences at a local mansion owned by two elderly sisters. Is the mansion actually haunted?...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Bungalow Mystery,” Nancy and her pal Helen are caught in a violent storm while boating on Moon Lake. They are saved from drowning by a teenage orphan named Laura who afterwards tells Nancy about her cruel guardian. Nancy, in trying to help Laura, soon discovers a suspicious, secluded bungalow in the woods...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Great Airport Mystery,” Frank and Joe Hardy are framed for a mail robbery by a disgruntled pilot. After being bailed out of jail they set out to clear their names. There’s lots of vintage Hardy Boys excitement along the way and the boys soon stumble upon a gang’s elaborate plan for an airmail robbery. Can they stop it in time?...