Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
- Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Hugh Williams
- Brisk war–thriller about how a six man British aircrew must find their way back to England across the Occupied Netherlands. Raised above the…
Tarzan's Secret Treasure / Tarzan's New York Adventure (1941-1942)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
- Double feature of the 5th and 6th TARZAN films from Johnny Weissmuller.
TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE (1941) – Here Tarzan fights…
Forty 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 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, 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 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, 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 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…