(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mamie Van Doren, June Wilkinson, Ted Knight, Ernesto Macias, Rachel Roman, William Long, Jr.  Knight shines as an overly enthusiastic politician running for a U.S. senate seat.  However, he is taken in by fame and becomes involved with a drop-dead gorgeous British immigrant played by buxom June Wilkinson.  Meanwhile, his unethical campaign manager finds himself in a similar situation...

(1932, aka THE LODGER) Ivor Norvello, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins, Barbara Everest, A.W. Baskcomb.  A strange man comes to an English couple’s house and secures lodgings.  The landlords’ daughter soon takes a fancy to him.  But when suspicion falls on him as being a mad killer with a penchant for cutting young girls’ throats, things start to get creepy...

(1953) Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Dario Moreno, Maurice Ronet.  Eddie plays tough-guy undercover agent Lemmy Caution, who ends up in exotic Casablanca attempting to track down two million in missing loot...

(1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynne, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James, Marita Hunt.  Here’s a comedy-laced old dark house thriller that few horror film fans know about.  Walls is a retired police inspector who tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that’s surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner’s knowledge...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1970) Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva, John Vincent.  Women are being bumped off by a mad killer who wears a nylon over his distorted face, while strangling them with the other nylon.  The killer’s psychiatrist, who’s cheating on his wife, decides to use hypnosis to induce the killer to get rid of his wife for him...

(1962, Anamorphic Edition) Pascale Petit, Gordon Scott, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia.  This sword and sandal opus covers the early life of Cleopatra. It chronicles the power struggles with her brother, her courtiers, her generals, and lastly, the Roman Empire...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Stewart Granger, Daniela Bianchi, Peter van Eyck, Giulio Bosetti, Manolita Barroso, Beni Deus.  Granger is good as a smooth-talking agent-for-hire, who’s perfectly willing to have an elegant conversation with you and then send a bullet through your torso.  He’s called in to find the killer of a U.S. agent in Morocco. He ends up teamed with a couple of high-minded diplomatic types that seem to get in his way more than help him.  Peter van Eyck is excellent as the hired assassin who’s in Granger’s cross-hairs and wanted in Norway for horrendous past political murders.  There’s a lot of good action in this well-made Eurospy film, but be warned: a LOT of people get bumped off—both good guys and bad guys, so have your Kleenex ready. Great color, dubbed in English, from 35mm.

(1925, Fox) Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnum, Arthur Morrison, Warner Oland, Fred Kohler.  With Tom Mix as the hero and Warner Oland as the bad guy what more could you want?  Tom, a tough Texas Ranger, sets out to find the killer (guess who) of his sister and to find his long lost niece, who is in Oland’s evil clutches...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Scarlet Planet” is an epic sci-fi tale sci-fi author Don Mark Lemon.  In many ways “The Scarlet Planet” is one of the more unusual science fiction tales of the 1930s.  Not simply because it was deemed “completely realistic” by Wonder Stories Quarterly editor Hugo Gernsback, but because of...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. In the grand early days of science fiction pulp magazines there was often a common theme to their stories—an ingenious scientist (often aided by a young disciple) comes up with some revolutionary discovery that drastically changes (usually for the good) mankind’s future...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Caves,” Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a woman who was on her way to see their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy. Her brother has disappeared and she pleads for the detective’s help...

(1956) Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vakhtang Ninua, Sergey Komarov.  This grand Russian sci-fi color epic is about a futuristic submarine’s desperate undersea search for a lost Soviet vessel, which was destroyed and sunk under very mysterious circumstances...

(1930) Buck Jones, Marguerite De La Motte, Kate Price, Albert J. Smith, Robert McKenzie, Frank Rice, Ben Corbett..  Jones and Rice are a couple of hard-working cowpunchers who end up getting fired from their jobs.  Rice then heads off to a place called “Shadow Ranch.”...

(1931) Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner, Leslie Perrins, Jane Welsh, Norman McKinnel.  A pretty British girl calls in Dr. Watson for advice—her brother has been cheating in high stakes bridge games.  What’s even worse is that her brother’s activities are also known to the sinister Professor Moriarty, who blackmails him into helping him with his nefarious schemes.  Enter Sherlock Holmes, who dives into the situation to set things right and defeat his wily, longtime nemesis. Wontner may well be the best purveyor of the Holmes character outside of Basil Rathbone.  Norman McKinnel is brilliantly wicked at the film’s climax.  The first of five films starring Wontner as Holmes. From 35mm. 

(1942) Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marchat, Julien CaretteIt, Robert Arnoux, Simone Allain, Auguste Bovério.  A husband and wife scientist team plans a mission into the stratosphere aboard a new-fangled balloon/spacecraft.  When the scientist is injured, his wife proceeds on the journey as planned, along with a bumbling assistant.  However, in mid-flight problems arise...

(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...