An insurance company, led by a wealthy English family, organized an expedition to Africa to find a lost heiress who has been raised in the wild as Gungala and one of the explorers falls in love with her. Read More »
Adventure
The Bandit Trail (1941) Edward Killy, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Janet Waldo, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Western
Rancher Tom Haggerty is killed trying to stop a gun battle between his hot-headed brother Red and the sheriff, who is trying to repossess Haggerty’s ranch for defaulting on a bank loan. Read More »
Halfway to Shanghai (1942) John Rawlins, Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Henry Stephenson, Adventure, Mystery
The film itself concerns a train hurtling through the night toward Rangoon (which must be half-way to Shanghai from some point) Read More »
The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Action, Adventure, Drama
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »
Time Out for Romance (1937) Malcolm St. Clair, Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis, Adventure, Comedy
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot. Read More »
Barricade (1939) Gregory Ratoff, Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits. Read More »
The Soldier and the Lady (1937) George Nichols Jr., Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, History, Romance, War
Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale Read More »
Northern Pursuit (1943) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. Read More »
La guerre des boutons / War of the Buttons (2011) Yann Samuell, Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Adventure, Family
In the countryside of France, two groups of boys from the rural villages of Longeverne and Velran are in constant war against each other. Read More »