Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
New 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 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 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.
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…
Tarzan Collection, The (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure) (1932-1942)
- Feat. Johnny Weissmuller
- All 6 of the 'Tarzan' movies starring Johnny Weismuller.