Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
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…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens
- Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Great St Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)
- Feat. Steve McQueen, David Clarke
- A little known noir gem starring a young Steve McQueen as a getaway driver for a group of criminals plotting to rob a bank in St Louis.
Based on…
Last Days of Pompeii / City of Metropolis (1959-1961)
- Dir. Mario Bonnard, Umberto Scarpelli
Feat. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey
- Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s:
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Directed by Mario Bonnard –…
North West Frontier (1959)
- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More
- Colonial adventure in which a British army captain must venture into India to rescue a prince and his governess who are being hunted by rebels…