(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...

THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Stéphania Nelli, Bruna Baini, Nando Angelini, Armando Guarnieri.  A collection of heirs gather for the reading of Sir Robert Thorne's will in a forlorn Scottish castle, which is reportedly haunted and also the hiding place of a lost treasure.  A séance is held prior to the will being read in an effort to ferret out...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova, Mikhail Kuznetsov. This is an amazing mad scientist film laced with espionage and intrigue.  Garin is a mad inventor who has created (with stolen plans) an apparatus called the Hyperboloid.  It is a death ray of unparalleled destructive power...

(1979) Tayfun Demir, Güngör Bayrak, Yildirim Gencer, Esref Kolçak, Nejat Özbek.  Okay, let’s face it, this is a LOW-budget Turkish super hero film, which as a genre make people like Ed Wood look like geniuses.  You know what kind of low-budget dredge to expect when the special effects include a...

(1961, Anamorphic English Edition) Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva, Roldano Lupi.  This is probably the best best video edition of this sword and sandal classic released to date, now in anamorphic widescreen from a beautiful color 35mm print.  During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues...

(1957) Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Crox Alvarado, América Martín.  This forgotten Mexican horror gem concerns a village that has fallen into a state of panic-stricken horror.  There are ax murders that leave gruesome remains for the villagers to discover.  But there’s more than just an ax-wielding maniac afoot...

(1966) Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gothard, Nike Arrighi, Jonathan Hansen.  The setting is in the distant future.  All the physical needs of mankind are provided for by an all-present “Machine,” which controls men’s lives through a vast series of tunnels inside the Earth.  Man’s every need is provided...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kitty Swan, Linda Veras, Poldo Bendandi, Archie Savage, Conrad Loth.  A crafty soldier of fortune, along with his duplicitous companion, head into the jungle wilds to seek out a highly revered diamond necklace...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The opening novel is renowned science fiction author Jack Williamson’s “The Angel from Hell.”  Was she an angel or a she-devil with wings?  The second novel is  Emmett McDowell’s “The Wandering Egos.”  This is a fascinating science fiction tale about the deepest core of the human brain...

(1953) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific film noir about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime...

(1941) Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston, Ronald Shiner.  Mills (young Bill) enlists in the British Army to help his country against the Nazi threat.  Not to be undone by his offspring, Graham (Old Bill) decides to do his part and sign up, too...

(1943) Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn Williams, Chick Chandler, Grant Withers, Emma Dunn. A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins...

(1956) Curt Jurgens, Geneviève Page, Jacques Dacqmine, Sylva Koscina, Gerard Buhr, Louis Arbessier.  19^th century Tartar unrest throws Russia into turmoil and the Czar desperately needs to communicate with his brother.  Unfortunately, his sibling (a Duke) is stuck behind enemy lines.  Jurgens (the Czar’s agent) is given the task of getting the message through...

(1960) Paul Hagen, Louis Miehe-Renard, Ebbe Langberg, Preben Kaas, Klaus Pagh.  After bumping into three dames, a UN soldier falls in love with one of them—a French dancer.  He later meets her at her workplace...

(1968 Anamorphic Widescreen) Kitty Swan, Micaela Pignatelli, Angelo Infanti, Jeff Tangen.  In this lively jungle opus, an expedition sponsored by a wealthy English family heads deep into the wilds.  Their goal?  To find a lost heiress whose plane cracked up in the jungle many years before...

(1933) Barbara Bedford, Maurice Murphy, Robert Frazer, Edwin Cross, Ernie Adams, Henry Hall.  A youngster is taken deep into the steamy Mexican jungle by his mother (and her butler) to avoid losing custody to the underhanded father...

(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller.  This French crime-drama is simply brilliant.  Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police.  He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child.  The car crashes and...

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?...