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...

(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...

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. 1. THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE (1930). 2. HABEAS CORPUS (1928) 3. DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) 

(1968) Ingrid Pitt, Keith Larsen, Lucien Pan, Bruno Punzalan, Joaquin Fajardo.  This film has been high on the want lists of Ingrid Pitt fans for years.  While on a trip through a steamy jungle, Ingrid’s artist husband discovers that she’s having an affair with their jungle guide.  He lures them into posing for him in the swirling waters of a jungle river that has been infected...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri, Philippe Hersent.  The Roman Senate is bitterly divided between the patricians and the plebeians. Alberto Lupo plays a traitorous senator who conspires against a handsome and powerful Roman warrior, played by Gordon Scott...

(1965 Anamorphic Widescreen) Reg Park, Gia Sandri, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Adriana Ambesi, Gianni Solaro, Luigi Barbini.  Park, in his fifth and final appearance as Hercules, undertakes a journey into the underworld, battling numerous monstrosities as he attempts to rescue his son...

(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.

(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...

(1938-1940) Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Maris Wrixon, Evelyn Brent, Dorothy Tree, Henry Hall, Charles Trowbridge.  A must for Karloff fans.  You get all five of Boris’ Mr. Wong films, plus his final Monogram outing, The Ape, on two dual-layer DVD discs.  With the success of the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto series over at 20^th Century Fox during the 1930s, Monogram decided to take the plunge into an Oriental detective series...

(1970) Alex Sanders, Maxine Sanders.  A witchcraft docu-drama about real-life witch Alex Sanders and his wife Maxine, both of whom star in the film...

(1961, Anamorphic Edition) Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo, Giacomo Furia, Gérard Herter.  Lupo, one of the best villains of the Peplum era, plays another dastardly dictator whose armies attack a nearby kingdom.  The rulers of the besieged capital city place a royal medallion around the neck of their infant son (Ursus) and have him removed from the city.  He ends up being raised by Lions...

(1951) Mario Soffici, José Cibrián, Martha Atoche, Ana María Campoy.  A south-of-the-border horror gem (6.6 on IMDB).  Although it is set in modern times, the dark streets of Buenos Aires serve the film well as Dr. Jekyll experiments...

(1972) Rosalba Neri, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia.  After a her mother's “suicide” a lovely teenage girl shows up at her mother’s Italian villa, only to discover that her widowed stepfather is having a sexual fling with an ultra-sexy photographer, played by that Italian sex bomb, Rosalba Neri. The two illicit lovers plan to do away with the pretty adolescent...

(1930) Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Nils Asther, George Marion, John Miljan, Boris Karloff.  This sea monster movie involves a larger-than-life manta ray that preys on West Indies divers...

(1930) Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, O. P. Heggie, Neil Hamilton. Fu Manchu is back to polish off those he holds responsible for the deaths of his wife and child.  There are many twists and turns with Fu Manchu constantly outwitting his foes...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Robert Malcolm, Antonio Cantafora, Sal Borgese.  An incompetent FBI agent is sent to Bangkok to sort out the mysterious disappearance of six Americans. He ends up in Hong Kong, where he finds himself targeted by a gang...

(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...

(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...