(1960) Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Robert Beatty.  This is a great British crime film.  Morgan gets out of the slammer and sets up what seems to be a legitimate modeling agency.  Back of it all, though, is a blackmail operation...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories.  In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Shore Road Mystery,” Frank and Joe Hardy are baffled by the theft of automobiles along along the Shore Road, a local coastal roadway that runs through their hometown of Bayport.  Even more mysterious is that the stolen cars all seem to disappear without a trace!...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pierre Brice, Heinz Drache, Daliah Lavi, Jana Brejchová, Terence Hill, Anton Diffring, Senta Berger.  Brice plays a secret agent who’s given the job of retrieving a stolen NATO missile control device (the B501) that has fallen into the hands of a criminal syndicate...

(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...

(1953) Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Valentina Ushakova, Nikolai Timofeyev. This obscure Soviet sci-fi film (made at the height of the Cold War) is unique because the setting is in the U.S.  Bolduman  plays a scientist whose first allegiance is money, rather than science.  With a big profit motive in mind, he invents a mighty new weapon of mass destruction—a deadly radioactive powder...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Rossana Podestà, Guy Madison, Mario Petri, Giacomo Rossi Stuart.  This lively peplum classic takes place during the time of Julius Caesar's incursion against the Gauls, who have broken their treaty with Rome.  The Gauls are a pretty barbaric bunch and Madison plays a Roman soldier sent in to tame them.  However, in the usual turn of events, he finds himself falling in love...

(1978, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina.  Andress (in her early forties and still gorgeous) stars as a headstrong woman who takes an expedition into the wilds of the Guinean jungle, searching for her missing husband...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yvonne Furneaux, John Ericson, Renzo Ricci, Gianni Rizzo, Germano Longo.  In this sprawling peplum tale, Furneaux plays the drop-dead gorgeous Semiramis, a vile, scheming member of the King of Assyria’s court. She is an overtly ambitious beauty who doesn’t hesitate...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Glynn Edwards, Sam Kydd.  What a cool movie this turned out to be (7.0 on IMDB).  In the opening moments of the film, a blazing car goes crashing over a seaside cliff, plunging into the murky waters below and killing its driver.  The deceased had been insured for 100,000 pounds...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Elsie Harker, Geoffrey Denton.  A crazed English scientist injects his wife with a cobra venom formula to cure her mental illness. Sadly, it has a horrible effect on the woman’s unborn child, who’s born with cold blood...

(1966, Anamorphic Edition) Paul Hubschmid, Karin Dor, Vivi Bach, Rosalba Neri, Nando Gazzolo.  Hubschmid is quite good as “Upperseven,” a master of disguise. He teams up with a CIA operative played by the beautiful Karin Dor, who would become a Bond girl the following year in You Only Live Twice.  Together, the two of them set out to smash a diamond smuggling ring...

(1976) Lisa Harrow, Christian Quadflieg, Pierre Brice, Christiane Krüger, Judy Geeson, Derek Farr.  A wandering planet from deep space drifts into the solar system and is detected by Earth scientists who soon investigate. The planet is called Medusa; its surface is uninhabitable and its people now live in a high-tech underground city. This subterranean society is ruled by women...

(1963, English Language, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg.  Finally, a beautiful widescreen English edition of this classic Krimi horror thriller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sean Flynn, Marie Versini, Alessandra Panaro, Mimmo Palmara, directed by Umberto Lenzi. A group of religious fanatics, the Sikkim rebels, capture a Brit officer and a Viceroy’s daughter. Another Brit officer, played by Flynn, undertakes a daring plan to rescue the two captives...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret. This great sword & sandal film is filled with fantastic elements and supernatural creatures, including a cyclops and a gorgon.  Gemma plays Crius, the youngest of the Greek titans, all of whom are imprisoned by the gods.  Freedom for him and his brothers is promised in return for...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first story is Robert Turner’s whodunit thriller, “The Tobacco Auction Murders.” Her last footsteps were shrouded by a screen of smoke! Jake Krane came South in search of his oddly silent wife. Vickie’s last letter had been filled with a mysterious sense of desperation... This double novel’s second tale is “The Sound of Death,” by pulp writer exraordinaire, David Wright O’Brien. When a person enlisted in the service and went to war, those who had families prayed for their safe return. But that wasn’t the case with some...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Treasure Vault of Atlantis” by Olof W. Anderson is the 58^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Would she be trapped in a vault forever?  To modern civilization, the lost world of Atlantis is a continent of myth and legend that...