(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm.  Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman.  The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...

(1963) Aram Katcher, Lisa McDonald, Brad Trumbull, James V. Christy.  This is a really grimy, shocking, crime-horror thriller, the likes of which we’ve seldom ever seen.  Katcher, who’s not that good of an actor yet is perfect for this film, plays one of the most terrifyingly ruthless villains imaginable...

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 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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Frank Balch’s “A Submarine Tour” is the 63^rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was an epic oceanic journey to lands unknown.  When Professor Baker accepted Professor Cook’s invitation to join his ocean-faring research team, he assumed the journey would be...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “A Subterranean Adventure” by George Paul Bauer is the 59th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, illustrated by that master science fiction artist, Frank R. Paul. When reading through the June 1930 issue of Wonder Stories magazine...

(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...

TERROR IS A MAN—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Francis Lederer, Richard Derr, Greta Thyssen, Oscar Keesee.  In 1959, American producer Kane Lynn teamed with Filipino filmmakers Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon to make a grisly thriller billed as ”a unique experience in motion picture terror!” Its global success would soon transform...