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Subgenre Sampler
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell - Set in India during the British Raj, this rousing literary adaptation follows a British regiment struggling to retain it's stronghold in the…
Sanders Of The River (1935)- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson - Fascinatingly skewed epic set in a colonial protectorate in West Africa, where the British Commissioner (Banks) tries to cultivate 'civilized'…
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer… - Exemplary version of Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckler. Robert Donat plays the imprisoned officer seeking revenge with steel and panache.
Tarzan The Fearless / Tarzan And The Trappers (1933-1958)- Dir. Charles Haas, Robert F. Hill
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Gordon Scott - "Tarzan The Fearless" is feature film stitched together in the 1960's from the first four chapters a 12–part 1933 serial starring Buster Crabbe…
Three Musketeers, The (1933)- Dir. Colbert Clark
Feat. Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis Bushman… - An early John Wayne movie serial set in distant Arabia, where he rescues three French Legionaires (Hatton, Mulhall and Bushman) from Arab attacks and…
Bird of Paradise (1932)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday… - Erotic adventure drama about a sailor who falls in love with a woman from an unnamed Pacific island where the film is set. Plenty of colonialist…
Hell's Angels (1930)
- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon… - Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) (1926)- Dir. Arnold Fanck
Feat. Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker - One of the landmark films of German Cinema, this is chiefly remembered as the awesome debut of Leni Riefenstahl who later became chief filmmaker for…
Eagle, The (1925)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino - Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Robin Hood (1922)- Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery - The first memorable version of the story with the lithe Douglas Fairbanks Snr leaping around some remarkable period sets. Initially we find Robin…
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