(1956) Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vakhtang Ninua, Sergey Komarov.  This grand Russian sci-fi color epic is about a futuristic submarine’s desperate undersea search for a lost Soviet vessel, which was destroyed and sunk under very mysterious circumstances...

(1957, aka Frankie No Uchûjin) Frankie Sakai, Ichirô Sugai, Tomoko Kô, Ayuko Fujishiro, Tôru Abe.  This incredibly rare Japanese sci-fi film is now available for the first time with English subtitles.  Sakai plays numerous different parts in this grand science fiction comedy.  A professor and his pretty assistant profess to have knowledge of a flying saucer that has visited the Earth...

(1969) George Cole, Peter Halliday, June Barry, Lillias Walker, Stanley Meadows.  In the future an incredible system has been created that allows a person to die, but pass his soul onto someone else, thus enabling one to potentially live forever...

(1971) Eddie Constantine, Katrin Schaake, Uschi Obermaier, Rainer Langhans, Hannes Fuchs.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve come across in a long time.  Now with English subtitles.  A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript, containing information dealing with a possible formula for immortality...

 (1910-1928) Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller; Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter.  Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein was the first filmed version of the famed Mary Shelley story and we present it with a vintage orchestral music score for the very first time... In West of Zanzibar, Chaney is superb as the twisted magician who seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him...

(1920) Pat O’Malley, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery, J. Barney Sherry.  A forgotten silent horror-science fiction gem resurfaces!  O’Malley is a green reporter who is caught in the middle of a plot to sabotage his newspaper.  Who is the traitor...

(1953) Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Dario Moreno, Maurice Ronet.  Eddie plays tough-guy undercover agent Lemmy Caution, who ends up in exotic Casablanca attempting to track down two million in missing loot...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

(1961) Rolf Ludwig, Christine Laszar, Helga Labudda, Micaela Kreißler, Otto Stark, Erik S. Klein.  A time traveler from the future arrives in communist East Germany.  He possesses a fantastic crystal lens that enables him to read people's thoughts and even measure their feelings...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Mahmoud El Meligy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.  We haven’t viewed that many Egyptian horror films, but this is absolutely the best one we’ve seen so far.  A lawyer is summoned to an antiquated palace/mansion that’s known by locals to be not just haunted, but cursed as well.  Even his coach driver will not go too near the place...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Per Oscarsson, Gio Petré, Tor Isedal, Ilsa Prawitz, Bengt Ecklund, directed by Arne Mattsson.  The setting is a closed department store.  The lonely night watchman develops an attraction to one of the store's female mannequins. His fixation becomes greater and greater...

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Agar, Rosemarie Stack, Abner Biberman, Andre Narcisse, Jacques Molant.  Agar plays a devil-may-care treasure hunter in this obscure voodoo thriller. He meets up with a beautiful young woman who possesses a golden idol, stolen by her father during a native voodoo ceremony. After obtaining directions and various voodoo charms, he and the girl go in search of the treasure.  They end up on a pagan island and soon find what they’re searching for—a section of the ocean floor covered with skulls and hundreds of idols.  Will the natives let them bring back their loot alive?  Lots of seagoing danger and voodoo thrills.  Listed on IMDB as an adventure-horror film.  The Golden Mistress is presented in its original 1.75 widescreen format.  Nice color, from 16mm.

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

(1953) Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier, Albert Dinan, Peter van Eyck.  Here’s an adventure-intrigue-science fiction thriller that most fans never even knew exited—with Von Stroheim no less!  A Foreign Legion officer is killed in southern Morocco after witnessing a secret experiment involving a fantastic new death ray...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Lawford, Ira von Fürstenberg, Georges Géret, Maria Grazia Buccella, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Wolfgang Preiss.  One of the most enjoyable Eurospy films we’ve seen in a long time.  Géret is excellent as a French pickpocket who inadvertently steals some highly classified papers that belong to the U.S...

(1959) Pavel Makhotin, Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgiy Shamshurin, Anatoliy Shamshurin. A young man stumbles onto a secret cache of video tapes showing an unknown cosmonaut in space flight.  Years later, and now a young scientist, a huge surprise awaits him when the tapes are reexamined...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant, Holly Saunders.  This disturbing psychological horror/exploitation thriller is about a modern-day writer who’s obsessed with the Marquis De Sade.  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies...

(1962) Seamon Glass, Thayer Roberts, Mary Morias, Mary Morias, Michael Greene. Social sci-fi at its best. A state trooper stops people along a highway after hearing news of an impending nuclear attack. Good drama as cast members fight and quarrel over what to do before the bombs hit...