A publisher bets an author that he won’t be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. Read More »
Adventure
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists Read More »
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Harold Young, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Adventure, Drama, Comedy
London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. Read More »
The 7th Dawn (1964) Lewis Gilbert, William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Adventure, Drama, War
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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The Lost Jungle (1934) David Howard, Armand Schaefer, Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor, Adventure
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. Read More »
Raffles (1939) Sam Wood, William Wyler, David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Read More »
Prince of Foxes (1949) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. Read More »
The Time Machine (1978) Henning Schellerup, John Beck, Priscilla Barnes, Andrew Duggan, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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North West Mounted Police (1940) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. Read More »
One Spy Too Many (1966) Joseph Sargent, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Rip Torn, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Action, Thriller
Megalomaniac Alexander wants to be like Alexander The Great. His plan is to commit the world’s greatest crimes to expand his industrial empire. Read More »