(1930, Fox) Maureen O’Sullivan, El Brendel, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson.  It’s New York in 1980.  In a dazzling lab scene, scientists revive a man (El Brendel) from 1930 who was struck by lightning in mid-golf swing...

(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...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

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

(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...

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

LILIOM (1930) Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, H. B. Warner, Estelle Taylor, Lee Tracy.  A wonderful film!  Farrell is Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at an old-time carnival.  He finds himself torn between the affections of his beautiful, hardnosed boss; and a pretty servant girl...

(1931, Warners) Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell.  Edward G. gives the quintessential “tough-guy” performance as Rico, a two-bit hood driven by his desire to "be somebody."  With merciless skill he ruthlessly climbs the ranks of organized crime... Disc 2: Dance, Fools, Dance. Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Billy Bakewell, Clark Gable. Ruined by the ‘29 crash, Crawford turns reporter while her brother (Bakewell) joins a bootlegging mob. Gable is his cold-blooded boss...

(1929, United Artists, MGM) The Locked Door, Barbara Stanwyck, Rod La Rocque, William Boyd, Betty Bronson. Barbara’s first talkie.  Out on a wild party boat filled with booze and unsavory types, Barbara falls for a decadent sleazebag played by La Rocque... Voice of the City, Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, John Miljan.  This MGM crime quickie is about an escaped prisoner who’s really innocent...

(1938, aka CRACKERJACK) Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison, Leon Lion.  Walls is great as a gentleman-thief known to the public as "Crackerjack". When a gang of crooks hijacks a plane to steal diamonds, Walls outsmarts them and snags the loot himself...

(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...

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...

LAW (1930, Columbia) Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, Thomas Carr, Harry Woods, Lydia Knott.  Buck returns from WWI to find his hometown in the grip of a criminal gang led by Woods...

(1930, RKO) Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton, Ivan Lebedeff. People gather in a sinister island castle on a stormy night somewhere in the Caribbean.  A shot rings out...

1930) Disc one:  Morocco. Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou.  Dietrich is the sultry singer who casts a spell over the, devil-may-care Legionnaire Cooper... Disc two: The Dawn Patrol. Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., dir. by Howard Hawks.  A WW1 ace causes endless trouble for his boss...