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Ali Baba and the Forty ThievesAli Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson
Adventure film based on 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights' about a boy prince who takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father…
Arabian Nights Arabian Nights (1942)
Dir. John Rawlins
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu
Lavish sets and costumes distinguish this story of two brothers competing for the throne of Turkey and the hand of the fiery dancing girl played by…
Jungle BookJungle Book (1942)
Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sabu
Live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's novel with Sabu as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves who attempts to adapt to human custom.
Reap the Wild WindReap the Wild Wind (1942)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. John Wayne, Raymond Massey, Paulette Goddard
Rugged ships captain John Wayne conducts hair–raising salvages off the 19th century Florida coast, in this spectacular sea–adventure,…
Black Cat, TheBlack Cat, The (1941)
Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Man HuntMan Hunt (1941)
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Sea Hawk, TheSea Hawk, The (1940)
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn
Adventure on the high seas with Errol Flynn at the height of his popularity. Magnificent swordplay and battle scenes.
Thief of Bagdad, TheThief of Bagdad, The (1940) Aro Favourite
Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez
Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
Beau GesteBeau Geste (1939) Recommended
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Classic Hollywood gallantry with, Gary Cooper as the eldest of three brothers who run away to join the French Foreign Legion, only to clash bayonets…
Gunga DinGunga Din (1939) Recommended
Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Victor McLaglen
Brilliant, wildly nonsensical adventure yarn has a carousing trio of soldiers let loose in colonial India, then ganging together to defeat the…

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