Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Moby Dick (1956)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart - Celebrated version of Herman Melville's classic novel, about a whaler obsessively pursuing the whale that bit off his leg, is flawed but brilliantly…
Run for the Sun (1956)- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer… - Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
The Buccaneers (1956)- Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Paul Hansard - Frisky frolics on the high seas with Robert Shaw as a former pirate pardoned by the English King and now given to policing the Caribbean
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas… - Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre are shipwreck survivors aboard the Nautilus under the strange command of Captain Nemo (James Mason). From Jules Verne's…
Davy Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier (1954)- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, William Bakewell… - TV version of the quintessential American story, which created such a phenomenal interest when screened that it was released in a movie version. Fess…
Elephant Walk (1954)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch… - Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
River of No Return (1954)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum - A Western adventure set aboard a river raft in which the frayed temperaments of Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum endure the perils of raging water…
Robinson Crusoe (1954)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Dan O'Herlihy - Daniel Defoe's classic novel of a shipwreck's sole survivor. Luis Bunuel directs with a few surrealist flourishes.
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953)- Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland… - Adventure yarn about a Greek father and son team off the coast of Florida who dive for living sponges in dangerous waters. Brought down a little by a…
Conquest of Everest, The (1953)- Dir. George Lowe
- Technicolour documentary about the various expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest. Both cameraperson Tom Stobart and New Zealand director George…
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