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Subgenre Sampler
Castaway Cowboy, The (1974)- Dir. Vincent McEveety
Feat. James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp - Well–made Disney adventure yarn has Texas cowboy Garner land in troubled Hawaii in the 1850s. Here, he falls in with helping Miles drive cattle…
Island at the Top of the World, The (1974)- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako - Four explorers on an expedition to the Arctic discover dangerous volcanos and a lost Viking race in this appealing Disney live–actioner. In the…
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The (1973)- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker… - Arabian Nightish saga with Tom Baker (Dr Who) as Sinbad's adversary. The swordplay of a six–armed statue is but one of the Harryhausen FX…
- Tom Sawyer (1973)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Johnnie Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates… - Award–winning musical version of Mark Twain's classic raggamuffin adventures. A youthful Jodie Foster appears as Tom's girlfriend.
Call of the Wild (1972)- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Michele Mercier - Fairly average version of Jack London's classic tale of Alaskan survivalism, with Heston traipsing the wilderness with his tough German Shepherd.…
Railway Children, The (1972)
- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter - When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Tintin and the Mystery at Shark Lake (Lake of Sharks) (1972)- Dir. Raymond LeBlanc
- Standalone animated Tintin feature (and second of two) finds Snowy, Captain Haddock and co. on a lakeside vacation – picturesque front to a global…
Treasure Island (1972)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander - Well–shot, though fairly hammy version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, with Welles playing the peg–legged Long John Silver.
Treasure Island (animated) (1972)- Dir. Hal Sutherland
- Warner Brothers' animated feature–length version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
Catweazle (TV Series) (1970-1971)- Feat. Geoffrey Bayldon, Charles Tingwell
- An eccentric, disheveled 11th century wizard teleports to the 1970s, spending much of his time in a state of utter bewilderment at the many…
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