(1959) Rushdi Abazah, Edmond Tuima. What you’ve got here is all you’d expect in a B&W ‘50s sci-fi film, similar to Missile to the Moon.  You’ve got a scientist who’s built a moon rocket.  He shoots off toward the moon with two stowaways.  There's a big spaceship and a cool robot.  They land on the moon and find a strange race of beautiful women.  After many horrifying and dangerous situations, they launch back toward Earth...

(1972) Johnny Kissmuller Jr., Simone Blondel, Roger Brown, Ettore Manni, Gerardo Rossi.  Film footage shot in the jungle reveals a white jungle man, flying through the air from tree to tree.  An expedition, financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, set out to find and capture this jungle-man who lives somewhere in the wilds of Africa...

(1974) Rosanna Schiaffino, Chris Avram, Eva Czemerys, Lucretia Love.  In this chilling Giallo (similar in some ways to Christie’s Ten Little Indians) a millionaire invites a group of people to a creepy, abandoned theater.  It turns out the theater is the site where an entire family was slain long ago.  Within a short time, the guests realize that they are trapped and at the mercy of a bloodthirsty killer who begins...

(1957, aka Ninjutsu Gozen-Jiai) Koji Arima, Sentarô Fushimi, Masao Hori. This supernatural thriller is about two feuding clans in ancient Japan.  Complicating things is a child who is taken hostage by one of the families.  In the film’s exciting climax, both families are represented by their top Ninja warriors.  The Ninja’s have a wide variety of uncanny powers, including invisibility and teleportation.  Also on hand are numerous horrific creatures...

(1929) William Black, Viola Richard, directed by Charles L. Glett.  Don’t bother looking, you won’t find this incredibly rare American-made crime featurette in any of the major film research books or websites.  It’s a little creaky but interesting—especially from a film history perspective.  PLUS:  BOTHERED BY A BEARD (1945) Tod Slaughter, Jerry Verno, John Salew.  Todd does a short reprisal of his Sweeny Todd character...

Armchair Fiction presents a new line of “Scandalous Classics,” featuring the works of Florence Stonebraker (1896-1977). LOCAL TALENT is another surprisingly well-written Stonebraker tale, who was known as the queen of 1950s “naughty novels.”  There’s nothing sexually hardcore in this steamy story, but there are plenty of moments of unbridled lust, passionate men and women, contemptible behavior, carnal excess, murder, mayhem, and brazen debauchery!  “Local Talent” is the story of Carrie Stevens, who loved being bad, and was truly rotten to the core...

(1970, WIDESCREEN EDITION) Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting, Gustaw Lutkiewicz.  A pastor/professor comes to a remote estate in the forlorn mountains of 19^th Century Lithuania to study books on folklore and other ancient tomes.  The estate is owned by a mysterious young duke and his insane mother, the latter of whom was attacked by a wild bear nine months before the duke was born.  There are whispered rumors about the duke’s true bloodline...  

(1951) Cesar Romero, John Hoyt, Hugh Beaumont, Hillary Brooke, Whit Bissell, Acquanetta. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, FACTORY SEALED Timeless Video VHS pre-record and our quantity is limited.  An atomic powered rocket disappears over the south Pacific. An expedition to recover it lands on an unknown jungle island filled with bloodthirsty...

(1968) Mei Chen Chalais, Glenn Saxson, Evi Marandi.  Saxson Is a tough adventurer who is hired by beautiful woman to search for her missing father’s plane, which crashed in the jungle years before.  There’s a group of thugs who seem hellbent to stop them for reasons unknown.  In the most menacing part of the jungle, they discover they're being watched by a beautiful young maiden who swings about the jungle in a nearly naked state...

(1952) Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Giovanni Amato, Helen Tubbs.  A devil comes to Earth and bestows upon a photographer's camera the power to destroy any and all evildoers.  The photographer uses this “machine” selectively at first, but the more he uses it the more evil seems to pour out of people until at last he decides to destroy almost everyone in his village... 

(1968) Hideaki Nitani, Naoko Kubo.  One of the worst movies ever.  Indeed, at a whopping 1.6, Mighty Jack has the lowest IMDB rating we’ve ever seen. Yet in spite of the bad film hoopla, this movie is filled with mindless fun.  It’s got tons of late ‘60s Toho-style special effects with many minatures of flying submarines, rockets, ray guns, etc. The plot has Mighty Jack (a counter-espionage team) fighting to save Earth from “Q,” an organization hellbent on world domination...

(1970) Dean Jones, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Rafael Alonso.  Jones is a professor working on a cure for the common cold.  He also happens into a mysterious Indian potion that makes one invisible, which he has occasion to use.  When a gang of crooks find out about Jones' invisibility serum, naturally they come after him.   Will Jones discover his antidote, beat the crooks, and get the girl? 

(1962) Liz Fraser, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Reynolds, Tony Wickert, David Hemmings. Two small-time blackmail artists (a man and woman) run afoul of a brutal gangster, who  stabs the man to death in his apartment as a warning for others to stay clear of his territory.  But when the woman shows up with an intended victim (a drunken student), the body is discovered and the student, in a drunken stupor, agrees to dispose of it...

Armchair Fiction presents Mammoth Mystery Double Classics—featuring illustrated editions of two all-time mystery-crime standards, with 440 pages or more of whodunit thrills. This double novel features two classics by the queen of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie. The first tale is a Hercule Poirot thriller, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles.” Our second Christie tale is another great one, “The Secret Adversary.”

(1939) Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, Richard Gofe, Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton.  Kendall plays a down and out, unemployed family man who’s behind on his rent and has his gas cut off by his landlord.  Desperate to make ends meet, he comes up with an incredible ruse.  He creates a non-existant alter-ego, “Mr. Davis,” and begins an elaborate con-game that becomes wildly successful...

(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro.  A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.  Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...

(1956) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

(1961) Terrance Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diana Clare, Felicity Young.  When a reporter’s brother falls to his death from a Cambridge college window, he makes his way from the United States back to England to find out exactly what happened.  Was it suicide?  The reporter thinks not and sets out to not only prove it was murder, but to bring the killer to justice...