(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...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

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...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret. This great sword & sandal film is filled with fantastic elements and supernatural creatures, including a cyclops and a gorgon.  Gemma plays Crius, the youngest of the Greek titans, all of whom are imprisoned by the gods.  Freedom for him and his brothers is promised in return for...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

(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...

(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...

(1960, aka La Llorona) María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Mauricio Garcés.  A married couple is warned by the wife’s father that their son will die before his fifth birthday because of an ancient curse...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Stewart Granger, Daniela Bianchi, Peter van Eyck, Giulio Bosetti, Manolita Barroso, Beni Deus.  Granger is good as a smooth-talking agent-for-hire, who’s perfectly willing to have an elegant conversation with you and then send a bullet through your torso.  He’s called in to find the killer of a U.S. agent in Morocco. He ends up teamed with a couple of high-minded diplomatic types that seem to get in his way more than help him.  Peter van Eyck is excellent as the hired assassin who’s in Granger’s cross-hairs and wanted in Norway for horrendous past political murders.  There’s a lot of good action in this well-made Eurospy film, but be warned: a LOT of people get bumped off—both good guys and bad guys, so have your Kleenex ready. Great color, dubbed in English, from 35mm.

LILIOM (1930) Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, H. B. Warner, Estelle Taylor, Lee Tracy.  A wonderful film!  Farrell is Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at an old-time carnival.  He finds himself torn between the affections of his beautiful, hardnosed boss; and a pretty servant girl...

(1930, Fox) Maureen O’Sullivan, El Brendel, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson.  It’s New York in 1980.  In a dazzling lab scene, scientists revive a man (El Brendel) from 1930 who was struck by lightning in mid-golf swing...

(1937, aka GLUBOKIY REYD) Konstantin Bartashevich, Nikolay Belyaev, Aleksandr Cheban.  Russia is attacked by a neighboring country that’s never identified.  The invaders bomb a Soviet town. In response, the Soviets counterstrike enemy targets...

(1947, aka SPRING) Lyubov Orlova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov, Faina Ranevskaya. This sci-fi comedy is a about a hard-nosed lady scientist who invents an amazing device for catching solar energy...