Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2164 Films to Rent
Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
War Lover, The (1962)
- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field…
- WW2 drama involving two Yankee pilots in England who form a deadly duo in the air, and two sides of a love triangle on the ground. Slow–moving,…
Daredevil in the Castle (Osaka jo monogatari) (1961)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi…
- Another solid genre excursion from seasoned dir. Hiroshi Inagaki (THE SAMURAI TRILOGY), with Toshiro Mifune again taking the lead as a despondent,…
On the Double (1961)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
Samson (Sansome) (1961)
- Dir. Gianfranco Parolini
Feat. Brad Harris, Serge Gainsbourg, Irena Prosen
- Pioneering film in "sword and sandal" genre about Samson, the character from the Hebrew bible who joins Queen Mila and a rebel army to take back the…
Yojimbo (1961)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa
- Mercenary Sanjuro walks into town and sells his services to both factions of rival gangs – to stand back and watch them destroy each other.…
Gladiators 7 / The Giant of Marathon (1960-1962)
- Dir. Pedro Lazaga, Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava
Feat. Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Gerard Tichy
- Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the early 1960s:
Gladiators 7 (1962) Directed by Pedro Lazaga – A Greek riff on THE…
Hercules (1960)
- Dir. Pietro Francisci
Feat. Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale
- The first of the Italian versions of 'Hercules' starring former Mr Universe, Steve Reeves. Here he embarks on a mission to retrieve the 'golden…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)
- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris…
- A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma.
Hinging on the treatment…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith…
- A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck.
Conveying both the allied…