(1968) Mauro Parenti, Lucretia Love, Gordon Mitchell, John Karlsen.   The title character is a masked superhero very much in the mold as Diabolik.  There’s a great pre-credit sequence where he takes on a shipload of drug dealers.  Our hero then pops in and out the rest of the way as he searches for a magical golden relic, all the while trying to keep the bad guys from looting King Tut’s treasures...  

(1961) William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green.  Near an old, derserted bombsite, a young child discovers a man lying unconscious.  When the boy awakens him, the man discovers he can’t remember anything from the past three weeks!  Adding to all the mystery, he finds out that his wife’s private detective has been murdered and that his company’s safe has been opened and emptied...

(1952) Mesiha Yelda, Turan Seyfioglu, Cahit Irgat.  This epic Turkish action thriller starts off with the main hero (Seyfioglu) meeting up with  Genghis Khan, whom he helps in his battle against an adversarial warlord.   The Khan is grateful for this (he saves the Khan’s life) and wants Seyfioglu’s allegiance, offering him a spot as one of his top lieutenants.  But Seyfioglu refuses and wanders through a series of swashbuckling adventures...

Armchair Fiction presents a new line of “Scandalous Classics,” featuring the works of Florence Stonebraker.  RENO TRAMP is another expertly woven tale of overt lust, hardboiled action, dastardly deeds, blatant sexual promiscuity, and outright sin!  However, if you’re looking for XXX-rated literature, you have the wrong book.  But if you’re looking for a surprisingly well-written story chock full of prurient, erotically charged moments about dazzling, wanton women and brutishly mis-guided men, then you need go no further...

ROOM 43 (1958) Diana Dors, Eddie Constantine, Herbert Lom.  Dors plays a shady lady trying to scam enough cash to pay for plastic surgery for her sister, who had acid thrown in her face by her pimp!  Eddie’s a cab driver who tries to help them out of their jam, falling for Dors during the process.  This film is loaded with sleazy, seductive dialogue with moments of action thrown in for good measure...

(1955, aka THE HINDU) Boris Karloff, Victor Jory, Reginald Denny, Nino Marcel, June Foray, Lou Krugman, Peter Coe.  A lavish color adventure about a man who becomes involved with a strange cult that worships a weird fire demon.  In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy...

(1975) Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Jim Davis.  McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area known as “the Devil’s Triangle.”  When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds dead bodies all over the place.  The only survivor is a beautiful blonde (Kim Novak), who’s in a confused state of mind.  Little does McClure suspect that the evil power that caused all the deaths will soon return... 

(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

(1984, aka HYDRA, THE SEA SERPENT) Ray Milland, Timothy Bottoms, Taryn Power, Jared Martin, Gerard Tichy, Leon Klimovsky, Jack Taylor.  A wonderful big-monster schlockfest!  In what was his last real movie, Milland plays a scientist investigating reports of a sea monster that has been ravaging the Spanish coast...

(1963) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Stewart Guidotti, Denis Goacher, Richard Coleman, Delena Kidd.  A sequel to the earlier sci-fi mini-series “City Beneath the Sea,” again taking place in the undersea city of Aegira.  A journalist goes to the ocean floor to look for a rare metal known as “Phenicium,” which—as it turns out—is pretty vital for outer space research...

(1940) Cheryl Walker, Harold Daniels, Julian Madison, Phyllis Barry, Bobby Watson.  One of the better exploitation films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.  It shows what happens to young gals short on cash.  A young girl needs money for her dying mom and ends up as a “model” for a sculpture called, “Spirit of Youth.”  Later she gets smashed and let’s a sleazy playboy have his way with her... 

Armchair Fiction presents a new line of “Scandalous Classics,” featuring the works of Florence Stonebraker.  SHE TRIED TO BE GOOD is an unforgettable tale of unmitigated greed, wanton lust, brutal action, and downright sin!  If you’re looking for pornographic literature, you’ve got the wrong book.  There isn’t even a single four-letter word in its pages.  However, if you’re looking for a well-written tale (surprisingly well-written) filled with salacious, sexually charged moments about gorgeous, wayward girls and big, brawny mis-guided men, you’ve come to the right place... 

(1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, Alf Marholm.  Buckholz gives the performance of his life as a human castoff, in international limbo, because of the loss of his passport.  He is conned into taking a job on a tramp steamer filled with misfits, smugglers, and murderers.  Soon after realizing his plight, he and his pal discover the ship’s cargo isn’t exactly what it’s purported to be...  

(1929) Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson. This forgotten British old dark house thriller would have been a perfect fit for one of the Forgotten Horrors books.  The setting is a creepy mansion filled with secret passageways, trap doors, snake pits, sliding floors, and secret rooms...

(1973) William Berger, Montserrat Prous, Edmund Purdom, Loreta Tovar, Directed by Jesus Franco.  This is one of Franco’s Dr. Orloff series and it’s odd not to see Howard Vernon running about.  The plot involves a wheelchair-bound young woman who’s surrounded by horrific thrills and chills...

(1964) Robert Lamoureux, Robin Maugham, Allen Swift.  This is a “Mondo” type of film that chronicles modern day slave trade during the 1960s.  It’s centered mainly in Arabian and African countries that were under heavy Muslim rule. Much of the filming was done in public places using hidden cameras and crewmembers.  There are numerous scenes of violence, nudity, and even sex...

(1980) Patrick Magee, Per Oscarsson, Brendan Price, Marilù Tolo, Curt Jurgens.  This dark, scary tale is set in 1815 as a young Brit tours Europe seeking to win a fortune at the roulette tables.  However, his attention soon shifts to a beautiful French countess, who invites him to her castle.  Romance grows in his heart for her.  But when people start dying horrifically, the young Brit realizes he has fallen into a terrifyingly situation... 

(1976) Pauline Quirke, Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Goring, Shirley Cheriton.  Quirke is brilliant in her portrayal of a pitiful, frumpy, inhibited teenage checkout girl at a small supermarket.  She has a crush on her manager who despises her and lusts for another female employee.  Then strange things begin happening.  It begins with a can rolling across the market floor, seemingly under its own power...