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Forty Thousand HorsemenForty Thousand Horsemen (40,000 Horsemen) (1940)
Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty
This rollicking war romp depicts the deeds of the Australian Light Horse cavalry during WWI. Stars the archetypal Aussie bushman, Chips Rafferty.
North West Mounted PoliceNorth West Mounted Police (1940)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Lon Jr. Chaney
Technicolour western set in 1885, with Gary Cooper playing a Texas Ranger who travels to Canada to arrest a fugitive who is inciting rebellion…
Santa Fe Trail, TheSanta Fe Trail, The (1940)
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland
Set in the leadup to the American Civil War, this professionally executed Western has future Confederate general Jeb Stuart (Flynn) lead the charge…
Torrid ZoneTorrid Zone (1940)
Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien
Caribbean–set adventure–comedy in which a fruit company executive (Pat O'Brien) has his plantation plagued by revolutionaries so he…
Man in the Iron Mask, TheMan in the Iron Mask, The (1939)
Dir. James Whale
Feat. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
Early, often imitated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' musketeer legend, with Louis Hayward as the eponymous man in the mask.
Tarzan Finds a Son (1939)
Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield
Tarzan and Jane raise a boy – the only survivor of a jungle plane crash – in their vine–swinging style. Later, his relatives search…
Adventure in SaharaAdventure in Sahara (1938)
Dir. D. Ross Lederman
Feat. C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly
Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. Following the death of his brother, Jim Wilson joins the French Foreign Legion and is stationed in Northern…
New Adventures Of Tarzan, TheNew Adventures Of Tarzan, The (1938)
Dir. Edward Kull
Feat. Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett)
Surprisingly gutsy version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character, originally presented as a 12–part movie serial in competition to the…
King Solomon's MinesKing Solomon's Mines (1937)
Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Paul Robeson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
Stirring original film version of this well–known novel based African adventure about a group of intrepid explorers on a life–changing…
Tarzan EscapesTarzan Escapes (1936)
Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Benita Hume
One of the best Weissmuller TARZAN sequels, has the jungleman kidnapped by hunters and taken back to England. Excitingly action–packed.

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