Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 488 Films to Buy & Rent
Incredible Journey (1963)
- Dir. Fletcher Markle
Feat. Emile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed…
- Two dogs and a Siamese cat attempt to return to their family by travelling over 200 miles of lush Canadian countryside. The original Disney adventure…
Siege of the Saxons (1963)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard
- Costume action, with a cartoonish quality, set in a post–King Arthur Britain.
Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
- Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Hatari (1962)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne
- Tremendous, good–natured adventure with John Wayne on safari in the great African wilderness. Memorable score by Henri Mancini.
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders…
- Excellent Disney adventure has Mills perilously search for her lost father across the far corners of the globe. Based on the Jules Verne novel, this…
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher…
- From the same stable as Sinbad, comes another fantasy using wonderful stop–motion animation. Jack, against all odds, fights the evil Pendragon…
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn…
- Superlative epic biography of enigmatic adventurer T.E. Lawrence played by a charismatic Peter O'Toole in his first leading role. The spectacle is…
Taras Bulba (1962)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann
- Violent epic in which Cossack leader Yul Brynner battles the Poles in 16th Century Ukraine while wayward son Tony Curtis falls in love with one of…
Mysterious Island (1961)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan…
- Robust adventure yarn finds a group of Yankee soldiers escaping a Confederate jail using a hot air balloon during the American Civil War.
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Vierne
Feat. Jean-Pierre Talbot, Georges Wilson, Georges Loriot
- One of two live–action adaptations of Herge’s Tintin adventures, this stars a look–alike Jean–Pierre Talbot as the eponymous boy…