(1955, Anamorphic Widescreen) Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holiman.  Wilde is a tough detective out to bring down a ruthless mob boss, wonderfully played by Conte.  The key to Wilde’s success are two sultry dames...

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...

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. 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 presents the original Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Secret of the Old Clock,” Teenage sleuth Nancy Drew finds herself drawn into a puzzling mystery as she helps struggling relatives secure their rightful inheritance from the greedy Topham family...

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 Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Mystery at Lilac Inn,” Nancy Drew visits her pal Emily at Lilac inn for a wedding, but soon finds herself entangled in mysteries involving an impersonator, stolen jewels, and strange ghostly happenings, including a “ghost" who seeks revenge against Nancy's father, Carson Drew...

(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...

(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...

 (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...

(1929) Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Cribbon.  This wonderful 2-disc edition includes both a color edition as well as the more common B&W edition of this classic film.  Loosely based on Verne’s famous novel, Barrymore plays Count Dakkar, a scientist and leader of a scientific colony on a remote volcanic island...

(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...

(1942) Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marchat, Julien CaretteIt, Robert Arnoux, Simone Allain, Auguste Bovério.  A husband and wife scientist team plans a mission into the stratosphere aboard a new-fangled balloon/spacecraft.  When the scientist is injured, his wife proceeds on the journey as planned, along with a bumbling assistant.  However, in mid-flight problems arise...

(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...

(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...

(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...