(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.”  She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara portrays a tortured...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1951) Jôji Oka, Sumiko Hidaka, Chieko Seki, Tatsuo Saitô, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Shirô Kanemitsu, Toshiaki Konoe.  This is a really obscure Japanese horror movie—and most enjoyable, especially the second half of the film.  Claws of Iron (AKA Tetsu no Tsume) is a fine supernatural chiller about a WW2 vet whose blood is contaminated by the blood of a strange ape-like creature...

(1963, Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen) Lucy Kelly, Annabelle Lee, George Edgely, Max Anderson.  One of our favorite exploitation films.  A busty sex kitten makes her move on her old Uncle Shug, who showers her with money in return for “favors.”  There’s just one hitch...

(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1966) Amalia Fuentes, Romeo Vasquez, Eddie Garcia, Johnny Monteiro.  In this pseudo-sequel to his masterpiece THE BLOOD DRINKERS, director Gerry de Leon (TERROR IS A MAN, BRIDES OF BLOOD) delves even deeper into themes of lust, guilt, faith and redemption within an aristocratic family cursed by vampirism. But this time, he adds rich gothic dollops of torture, incest, carnal...

(1954) Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri.  Eddie, as Lemmy Caution, hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has been watching.  Later, he finds the other agent murdered...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “Dangerous to Know” by whodunit regular James P. Duff. Frank Heggen’s involvement in the whole deadly mix-up began harmlessly enough with a very simple automobile collision. But that little scrape changed from a ho-hum incident to a ripening case of murder with amazing speed… The second fine tale in this doubl novel is Steve Ward’s sultry thriller, “Odds Against Linda.” When Peter Conrad brought his beautiful new bride back to San Francisco, he found a most unusual reception committee waiting patiently for him. It consisted of two roughneck characters along with the long, gray, metallic gun barrels...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karen Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber, Anneli Sauli, Klaus Kinski.  This special 2-disc edition gives you both the English language American release version, as well as the original German language edition with English subtitles.  Wealthy men, whose lives are all heavily insured, are being bumped off one by one, their bodies being dropped into the Thames...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel kicks off with a terrific Milton Ozaki tale, “The Deadly Lover.” She was just too beautiful to die! But die she did—the victim of a ruthless killer who struck by night. A killer smart enough to lure the lovely young girl to a lonely park, smart enough to strangle the life from her shapely body, smart enough to leave no traces... The second tale in this double novel is a great thriller by Robert Moore Williams, “Murder is so Final.” In the early hours of the morning, as the traffic began to pile up and humidity increased, the male citizens of St. Louis performed their usual routines. They dressed, showered and shaved, made breakfast and coffee, read the paper, and if they were lucky, kissed the Missus’ goodbye...

(1955) Eddie Constantine, Maria Frau, François Perrot, R.J. Chauffard, Roger Hanin, Luisa Rivelli, Nadine Tallier, Florence Landon.  This elusive Lemmy Caution intrigue thriller is now available with English subtitles.  Lemmy (Eddie) infiltrates a gang of crooks that has kidnapped a scientist who has plans for a revolutionary device that can manufacture diamonds...

(1934) Georg Alexander, Camilla Horn, Gerda Maurus, Theo Lingen, Fritz Odemar, Jakob Tietke.  We never thought we’d refer to an Edgar Wallace film as being “delightful,” but this one most assuredly is.  Yet it’s got all the usual Wallace crime trappings with sinister characters and plot twists.  Camilla Horn, as Jenny, heads to London to meet (and hopefully marry) her cousin Harry (Georg Alexander), who is also the financial adviser overseeing her fortune...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Elnovia” by Geoffrey Faber is the 64^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  They were shipwrecked in the clouds above!  Captain Anthony Flutter, a bright young inventor, was planning a flight to Australia in a brand new flying machine of his own design. The first of its kind, this new ship...

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

 (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...

(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...