(1929) Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Cribbon.  This wonderful 2-disc edition includes both a color edition as well as the more common B&W edition of this classic film.  Loosely based on Verne’s famous novel, Barrymore plays Count Dakkar, a scientist and leader of a scientific colony on a remote volcanic island...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Nancy Drew mystery stories. In this, Carolyn Keene’s “The Mystery at Lilac Inn,” Nancy Drew visits her pal Emily at Lilac inn for a wedding, but soon finds herself entangled in mysteries involving an impersonator, stolen jewels, and strange ghostly happenings, including a “ghost" who seeks revenge against Nancy's father, Carson Drew...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Mystery of Cabin Island,” Frank and Joe Hardy head out to spend some time in a cabin on a remote island near their hometown of Bayport. Little do they know that other furtive characters are out to cause them trouble...

(1930) Huguette Duflos, Kissa Kouprine, Maxime Desjardins. It’s a dark night at a mysterious castle. Inside, a scientist works in his lab, which is filled with glowing equipment.  The night is interrupted by the arrival of a fiend...

(1968) Ingrid Pitt, Keith Larsen, Lucien Pan, Bruno Punzalan, Joaquin Fajardo.  This film has been high on the want lists of Ingrid Pitt fans for years.  While on a trip through a steamy jungle, Ingrid’s artist husband discovers that she’s having an affair with their jungle guide.  He lures them into posing for him in the swirling waters of a jungle river that has been infected...

 (1956, aka Cloak without Dagger) Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson, John Heller, Chin Yu, Bill Nagy.  Pretty Mary Mackenzie (who died just ten years later) is a fashion reporter who stumbles upon a murder.  In a manner very worthy of an older Nancy Drew...

(1930) Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Helen Chandler, Dudley Digges, Alec B. Francis.  In this marvelous supernatural fantasy, a group of passengers find themselves aboard a mysterious, fog-shrouded ocean liner...

(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.

(1930) Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, O. P. Heggie, Neil Hamilton. Fu Manchu is back to polish off those he holds responsible for the deaths of his wife and child.  There are many twists and turns with Fu Manchu constantly outwitting his foes...

(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...