Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 482 Films to Buy & Rent
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…
Call of the Wild (1972)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Michele Mercier
- Fairly average version of Jack London's classic tale of Alaskan survivalism, with Heston traipsing the wilderness with his tough German Shepherd.…
Deliverance (1972)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty
- Four businessmen encounter the dark side of both human and mother nature on their weekend canoe trip in the deep South. Aided by that unmistakable…
Railway Children, The (1972)
- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter
- When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Tarzan (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Ron Ely, Sally Kellerman, Diana Ross
- Ron Ely maintains jungle justice in this TV series from 1972. Two episodes include guest star turns from Sally Kellerman and Diana Ross!
Tintin and the Mystery at Shark Lake (Lake of Sharks) (1972)
- Dir. Raymond LeBlanc
- Standalone animated Tintin feature (and second of two) finds Snowy, Captain Haddock and co. on a lakeside vacation – picturesque front to a global…
Treasure Island (1972)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander
- Well–shot, though fairly hammy version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, with Welles playing the peg–legged Long John Silver.
Treasure Island (animated) (1972)
- Dir. Hal Sutherland
- Warner Brothers' animated feature–length version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
Young Winston (1972)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward…
- The early life of Britain's greatest political leader, through his time in India, Sudan and the Boer War to his ascendancy at the House of Commons.
Bearcats! (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole
- Endearing "late Western" TV series set in 1914 in which Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole star as a pair of charismatic troubleshooters for hire who gad…