Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2164 Films to Rent
Fire Down Below (1957)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon…
- Adventure drama set in the Caribbean, with Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum playing U.S. expatriates who eke out a meager subsistence transporting…
Forty Guns (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger…
- A surreal, somewhat lurid Western set in Tombstone, Arizona pits voluptuous land–baroness Stanwyck against the new, world–weary marshall…
Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom…
- Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
Pride and the Passion, The (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren…
- A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
Throne of Blood (1957)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
- Kurosawa transposes MacBeth into a Samurai setting and the result justifies his reputation. Nothing short of an awesome spectacle Shakespeare himself…
Conqueror, The (1956)
- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz…
- Notorious Howard Hughes produced flop with John Wayne woefully miscast as Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. Filmed downwind from a nuclear test site many of…
D-Day - The Sixth of June (1956)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Edmond O'Brien…
- Well–executed enactment of the Normandy landings in WW2, with some extravagent action scenes and solid dramatics.
Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956)
- Dir. Russell Rouse
Feat. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain…
- Modest–scale Western with Ford playing a reformed gunfighter who is not allowed to leave his past behind.
Helen of Troy (1956)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Rossana Podesta, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Niall MacGinnis…
- Homer's epic of the Trojan War is treated with Hollywood gloves in this above–average adaptation. Centering around the the ambiguous figure of…
Lone Ranger, The (1956)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger…
- Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…