Subgenre Sampler
Adventure: 488 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Mogambo (1953)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
- Clark Gable squeezes in wooing both Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly between bouts of elephant shooting in the African jungle.
Peter Pan (1953)
- Dir. Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
- Walt's version of the J M Barrie classic, animated with consummate skill by his army of inhouse artisans.
The flying imp Peter Pan leads Wendy and…
Return to Paradise (1953)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes
- Understated drama with Cooper as a carefree drifter content to live aimlessly in his Pacific Island paradise. His idyllic existence is threatened by…
Wages of Fear (Salaire de la Peur, Le) (1953)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
- A young Yves Montand leads a group of impoverished men over rocky Latin American terrain with a dangerous load of nitro–glycerine. Considered…