List of adventure films of the 1930s
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A list of adventure films released in the 1930s.
1930[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Big Trail | Raoul Walsh | John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr., El Brendel | United States | Epic western, wagon train |
The Black Watch | John Ford | Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy | United States | |
Dangerous Paradise | William A. Wellman | Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz | United States | |
A Daughter of the Congo | Oscar Micheaux | Kathleen Noisette, Lorenzo Tucker | United States | |
General Crack | Alan Crosland | John Barrymore, Marian Nixon, Armida, Lowell Sherman | United States | |
The Green Goddess | Alfred E. Green | George Arliss, H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce | United States | |
Hell Harbor | Henry King | Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland | United States | Romantic adventure |
Hell's Island | Edward Sloman | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Dorothy Sebastian | United States | |
The Man Hunter | D. Ross Lederman | Rin Tin Tin | United States | |
Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou | United States | Desert adventure |
Paradise Island | Bert Glennon | Marceline Day, Kenneth Harlan | United States | |
Renegades | Victor Fleming | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery | United States | |
The Sea God | George Abbott | Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette | United States | Sea adventure |
The Sea Wolf | Alfred Santell | Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett | United States | Sea adventure |
The Silver Horde | George Archainbaud | Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, Blanche Sweet | United States | Sea adventure |
The Spoilers | Edwin Carewe | Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson | United States | Western |
Storm over Mont Blanc | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
Vengeance | Archie Mayo | Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier | United States | |
Women Everywhere | Alexander Korda | J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'Orsay | United States | Musical |
1931[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Adventurer of Tunis | Willi Wolff | Ellen Richter, Theo Shall, Charles Puffy | Germany | |
Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Loretta Young | United States | |
Corsair | Roland West | Chester Morris | United States | Sea adventure |
Danger Island | Ray Taylor | Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Andy Devine | United States | Serial |
Dirigible | Frank Capra | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray | United States | |
East of Borneo | George Melford | Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar | United States | Jungle adventure |
Fifty Fathoms Deep | Roy William Neill | Jack Holt, , Richard Cromwell | United States | Sea adventure |
King of the Wild | B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe | Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Dorothy Christy, Boris Karloff | United States | Serial |
Never the Twain Shall Meet | W. S. Van Dyke | Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro | United States | Sea adventure |
Trader Horn | W. S. Van Dyke | Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu | United States | |
The Unholy Garden | George Fitzmaurice | Ronald Colman, Fay Wray | United States |
1932[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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L'Atlantide | G. W. Pabst | Brigitte Helm | France Germany |
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Baroud | Rex Ingram, Alice Terry | Pierre Batcheff, Rosita Garcia | France United Kingdom |
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The Black Hussar | Gerhard Lamprecht | Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians | Germany | |
Bring 'Em Back Alive | Clyde E. Elliott | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
Chandu the Magician | William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall | United States | Secret agent |
Devil on Deck | Wallace Fox | Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Wheeler Oakman, June Marlowe | United States | Sea adventure |
F.P.1 | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre | Germany | |
Hell's Headquarters | Andrew L. Stone | Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks | United States | |
Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen | United States | Horror adventure |
Jungle Mystery | Ray Taylor | Tom Tyler | United States | Serial |
Kongo | William J. Cowen | Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce | United States | Horror adventure |
The Mask of Fu Manchu | Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor | Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett | United States | Horror adventure |
The Most Dangerous Game | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson | United States | Horror adventure, desert island, jungle |
The Mummy | Karl Freund | Boris Karloff, Zita Johann | United States | Horror adventure |
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | E. A. Dupont | Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Otto Wernicke | Germany | Adventure comedy |
The Rebel | Curtis Bernhardt, Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich | Germany | |
Red Dust | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor | United States | Romantic adventure |
Roar of the Dragon | Wesley Ruggles | Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, ZaSu Pitts, C. Henry Gordon | United States | |
The Savage Girl | Harry L. Fraser | Rochelle Hudson, Harry Myers | United States | Jungle adventure |
Shanghai Express | Josef von Sternberg | Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Clive Brook | United States | |
Tarzan the Ape Man | W. S. Van Dyke | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
The Three Musketeers | Henri Diamant-Berger | Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan, Thomy Bourdelle, Jean-Louis Allibert | France | |
Tiger Shark | Howard Hawks | Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann | United States | Sea adventure |
War Correspondent | Paul Sloane | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee | United States | |
The White God | George Schnéevoigt | Paul Richter, Mona Mårtenson, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | Denmark Germany |
Arctic adventure |
White Zombie | Victor Hugo Halperin | Bela Lugosi | United States | Horror adventure |
1933[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Alexandre Volkoff | Ivan Mosjoukine, Tania Fédor, Natalya Lisenko | France | ||
Below the Sea | Albert S. Rogell | Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy | United States | Sea adventure |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Frank Capra | Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori | United States | Romantic adventure |
Dick Turpin | Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Victor McLaglen | United Kingdom | |
Don Quixote | G.W. Pabst | Feodor Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy | France United Kingdom |
Romantic adventure, adventure drama |
The Flaming Signal | George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts | John David Horsley, Marceline Day, Noah Beery, Mischa Auer | United States | |
Flüchtlinge | Gustav Ucicky | Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy | Germany | |
King Kong | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher | United States | Jungle adventure |
Kiss of Araby | Phil Rosen | Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor | United States | |
Laughing at Life | Ford Beebe | Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro | United States | |
The Perils of Pauline | Ray Taylor | Evalyn Knapp, Robert Allen | United States | Serial |
George Miller Dyott | George Miller Dyott | United States | Documentary | |
So This Is Africa | Edward F. Cline | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey | United States | Adventure comedy |
The Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, | United States | Jungle adventure |
S.O.S. Eisberg | Arnold Fanck | Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet | Germany | Arctic adventure |
Tarzan the Fearless | Robert F. Hill | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren | United States | Serial, jungle adventure |
The Three Musketeers | Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark | John Wayne, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr. | United States | Serial |
Timbuctoo | Walter Summers, Arthur B. Woods | Henry Kendall, Margot Grahame | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
When Strangers Marry | Clarence G. Badger | Jack Holt, Lilian Bond | United States | |
White Woman | Stuart Walker | Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton | United States | |
The Woman I Stole | Irving Cummings | Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Noah Beery | United States |
1934[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventure Girl | Herman C. Raymaker | Joan Lowell | United States | Docudrama |
The Affairs of Cellini | Gregory La Cava | Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Fay Wray, Frank Morgan | United States | |
Beyond Bengal | United States | Documentary | ||
Black Moon | Roy William Neill | Fay Wray, Jack Holt, Dorothy Burgess | United States | Horror adventure |
Robert Vidalin | France | |||
Jacques Daroy | Paul Lalloz | France | ||
Colonel Blood | W. P. Lipscomb | Frank Cellier, Anne Grey, Mary Lawson, Allan Jeayes | United Kingdom | |
The Eternal Dream | Arnold Fanck | Sepp Rist, Brigitte Horney | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
Four Frightened People | Cecil B. DeMille | Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan | United States | Jungle adventure, desert island |
Le Grand Jeu | Jacques Feyder | Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay | France | |
The Lost Jungle | David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Clyde Beatty | United States | Serial |
The Lost Patrol | John Ford | Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny | United States | Desert |
Paul Wegener | Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Horney | Germany | Sea adventure | |
Marie Galante | Henry King | Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian | United States | |
Murder in Trinidad | Louis King | Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory | United States | Mystery |
North Pole, Ahoy | Andrew Marton | Walter Riml, Gustav Lantschner | Germany | Arctic adventure, adventure comedy |
Peer Gynt | Fritz Wendhausen | Hans Albers, Olga Tschechowa, Otto Wernicke | Germany | |
Pirate Treasure | Ray Taylor | Richard Talmadge | United States | Serial |
The Private Life of Don Juan | Alexander Korda | Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon | United Kingdom | |
Pursued | Louis King | Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Russell Hardie | United States | |
Red Morning | Wallace Fox | Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton | United States | Sea adventure |
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika | Herbert Selpin | Sepp Rist | Germany | |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Harold Young | Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce | United Kingdom | |
Johannes Meyer | Marianne Hoppe, Paul Hartmann, Gustaf Gründgens | Germany | ||
A Scream in the Night | Fred C. Newmeyer | Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Mystery |
Sixteen Fathoms Deep | Armand Schaefer | Lon Chaney Jr., Sally O'Neil | United States | Sea adventure |
Tarzan and His Mate | Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
Treasure Island | Victor Fleming | Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce | United States | Pirate film |
Wild Cargo | Armand Denis | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
Edward Laurier, Vin Moore | Bobby Cox, Jim Vance | United States | Serial, family-oriented adventure |
1935[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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La Bandera | Julien Duvivier | Jean Gabin, Annabella | France | |
The Best Man Wins | Erle C. Kenton | Jack Holt, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice | United States | Sea adventure |
The Black Room | Roy William Neill | Boris Karloff | United States | Horror adventure |
The Call of the Savage | Lew Landers | Noah Beery Jr. | United States | Serial |
The Call of the Wild | William A. Wellman | Clark Gable, Loretta Young | United States | |
Captain Blood | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | United States | Pirate film |
China Seas | Tay Garnett | Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
Clive of India | Richard Boleslawski | Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive | United States | |
The Crusades | Cecil B. DeMille | Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith | United States | |
Demon of the Himalayas | Andrew Marton | Gustav Diessl | Switzerland | Mountaineering adventure |
Drake of England | Arthur B. Woods | Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler, Jane Baxter | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
Harry Piel | Harry Piel, Gerda Maurus | Germany | ||
East of Java | George Melford | Charles Bickford | United States | |
Fang and Claw | Frank Buck | Frank Buck | United States | Documentary |
Last of the Pagans | Richard Thorpe | Ray Mala, Lotus Long | United States | Sea adventure |
The Last Outpost | Louis J. Gasnier, Charles Barton | Cary Grant, Claude Rains | United States | |
The Live Wire | Harry S. Webb | Richard Talmadge | United States | Sea adventure |
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Henry Hathaway | Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell | United States | Romantic adventure |
The Lost City | Harry Revier | William Boyd | United States | Serial, fantasy adventure |
McGlusky the Sea Rover | Walter Summers | Jack Doyle, Tamara Desni, Henry Mollison | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
Midshipman Easy | Carol Reed | Hughie Green, Roger Livesey, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Adams | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
Mutiny Ahead | Thomas Atkins | Neil Hamilton, Kathleen Burke | United States | Sea adventure |
Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Movita | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama |
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | Denison Clift | Bela Lugosi | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
The New Adventures of Tarzan | Edward A. Kull | Herman Brix | United States | Serial |
... nur ein Komödiant | Erich Engel | Rudolf Forster, Paul Wegener | Austria | |
Oil for the Lamps of China | Mervyn LeRoy | Pat O'Brien | United States | |
Professional Soldier | Tay Garnett | Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew | United States | |
Queen of the Jungle | Robert F. Hill | Mary Kornman, Reed Howes | United States | Serial |
La Route impériale | Marcel L'Herbier | Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Richard-Willm, Pierre Renoir | France | |
Sanders of the River | Zoltan Korda | Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney | United Kingdom | |
Savage Fury | Lew Landers | Noah Beery Jr., Walter Miller, Dorothy Short | United States | Jungle adventure |
She | Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce | United States | |
Storm Over the Andes | Christy Cabanne | Jack Holt | United States | |
The Three Musketeers | Rowland V. Lee | Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Paul Lukas | United States | |
Under the Pampas Moon | James Tinling | Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian | United States | Romantic adventure |
1936[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Across the Desert | Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla | Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt | Germany | |
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Donald Briggs | United States | Serial | |
Albert Herman | Ralph Graves | United States | Serial | |
Black Gold | Russell Hopton | Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea | United States | Action adventure |
The Bold Caballero | Wells Root | Robert Livingston | United States | |
Captain Calamity | John Reinhardt | George F. Houston | United States | Sea adventure |
The Charge of the Light Brigade | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, David Niven | United States | |
Dangerous Waters | Lambert Hillyer | Jack Holt, Robert Armstrong | United States | Sea adventure |
Darkest Africa | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Clyde Beatty, , Elaine Shepard | United States | Serial |
Down to the Sea | Lewis D. Collins | Russell Hardie, Ben Lyon, Ann Rutherford | United States | Sea adventure |
Jean-Paul Paulin | George Rigaud, Sanlure | France Italy |
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Flash Gordon | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial, space adventure |
The General Died at Dawn | Lewis Milestone | Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
Isle of Fury | Frank McDonald | Humphrey Bogart, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay | United States | |
Juan Moreira | Nelo Cosimi | , Domingo Sapelli, , María Esther Podestá | Argentina | |
The Jungle Princess | Wilhelm Thiele | Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
The Last Four on Santa Cruz | Werner Klingler | Hermann Speelmans, Françoise Rosay, Valéry Inkijinoff | Germany | |
The Last of the Mohicans | George B. Seitz | Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes | United States | Western |
The Leathernecks Have Landed | Howard Bretherton | Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell | United States | |
A Legionnaire | Christian-Jaque | Fernandel | France | Adventure comedy |
The Lion Man | John P. McCarthy | Jon Hall, Kathleen Burke, Ted Adams | United States | |
Michel Strogoff | Jacques de Baroncelli, Richard Eichberg | Anton Walbrook, Charles Vanel | France | |
The Mine with the Iron Door | David Howard | Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall | United States | |
North of Nome | William Nigh | Jack Holt | United States | |
Nicolas Farkas | Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel | France | ||
Revolt of the Zombies | Victor Hugo Halperin | Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger | United States | Horror adventure |
Rhodes of Africa | Berthold Viertel | Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka | United Kingdom | |
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island | Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright | Ray Mala, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson | United States | Serial, US spies in Polynesia |
Michel Bernheim | George Rigaud, Mireille Balin, Princesse Khandou | France | ||
Sea Spoilers | Frank R. Strayer | John Wayne, Nan Grey | United States | Sea adventure |
Song of Freedom | J. Elder Wills | Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
Lo squadrone bianco | Augusto Genina | Antonio Centa, Fosco Giachetti | Italy | |
Tarzan Escapes | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
Uncivilised | Charles Chauvel | Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey | Australia | |
Under Blazing Heavens | Gustav Ucicky | Hans Albers, Lotte Lang | Germany | Sea adventure |
Under Two Flags | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell | United States | |
Undersea Kingdom | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue | United States | Serial |
We're in the Legion Now! | Crane Wilbur | Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston | United States | Adventure comedy |
White Death | Zane Grey | Australia | Sea adventure | |
White Hunter | Irving Cummings | Warner Baxter, June Lang | United States | |
Wings Over Africa | Ladislao Vajda | Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt | United Kingdom |
1937[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventure's End | Arthur Lubin | John Wayne | United States | Sea adventure |
Alarm in Peking | Herbert Selpin | Gustav Fröhlich | Germany | |
Aloha, le chant des îles | Léon Mathot | Jean Murat, Danièle Parola, Arletty | France | |
The Black Corsair | Amleto Palermi | Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino | Italy | Pirate film |
Captains Courageous | Victor Fleming | Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore | United States | Adventure drama, sea adventure |
China Passage | Edward Killy | Vinton Haworth, Gordon Jones, Constance Worth, Leslie Fenton | United States | Sea adventure, mystery |
Condottieri | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker | Italy Germany |
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Elephant Boy | Robert J. Flaherty | Sabu, Walter Hudd, W. E. Holloway | United Kingdom | [1] |
The Emperor's Candlesticks | George Fitzmaurice | William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan | United States | |
The High Command | Thorold Dickinson | Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, James Mason | United Kingdom | |
I Cover the War | Arthur Lubin | John Wayne | United States | |
Jungle Jim | Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Grant Withers | United States | Serial |
Jungle Menace | Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Frank Buck | United States | Serial |
King Solomon's Mines | Robert Stevenson | Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Anna Lee | United Kingdom | African adventure |
The Legion of Missing Men | Hamilton MacFadden | Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, | United States | War adventure |
Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard | United States | |
The Messenger | Raymond Rouleau | Jean Gabin, Gaby Morlay, Jean-Pierre Aumont | France | |
The Mysterious Pilot | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian | United States | Serial |
Outlaws of the Orient | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke | United States | |
The Pearls of the Crown | Sacha Guitry | Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault | France | Adventure comedy |
The Prince and the Pauper | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch, Claude Rains | United States | |
The Prisoner of Zenda | John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke | Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, David Niven | United States | Swashbuckler |
Jacques Séverac | Jean Servais | France | ||
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Hanns Schwarz | Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason | United Kingdom | |
Sea Devils | Benjamin Stoloff | Victor McLagen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino | United States | Sea adventure |
Slave Ship | Tay Garnett | Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney | United States | |
Southern Mail | Pierre Billon | Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel | France | |
Hamilton MacFadden | Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Anne Nagel | United States | Adventure comedy | |
Tim Tyler's Luck | Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens | Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Al Shean, William 'Billy' Benedict | United States | Serial |
Gaston Roudès | Tania Fédor, Jean Weber, Jacques Varennes | France | ||
Jean Dréville | Jean Murat, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel | France | ||
Trouble in Morocco | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Jack Holt, Mae Clarke | United States | |
Under the Red Robe | Victor Sjöström | Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey | United Kingdom | |
Wallaby Jim of the Islands | Charles Lamont | George F. Houston | United States | Sea adventure |
West of Shanghai | John Farrow | Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez | United States | |
The Wife of General Ling | Ladislao Vajda | Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff, Adrianne Renn | United Kingdom | |
Windjammer | Ewing Scott | George O'Brien | United States | Sea adventure |
Woman of Malacca | Marc Allégret | Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm | France | Romantic adventure |
The Yellow Flag | Gerhard Lamprecht | Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Dorothea Wieck | Germany | |
Zorro Rides Again | John English, William Witney | John Carroll, | United States | Serial, western |
1938[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventure in Sahara | D. Ross Lederman | Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray | United States | |
The Adventures of Marco Polo | Archie Mayo | Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains | United States | Swashbuckler, romantic adventure |
Alert in the Mediterranean | Léo Joannon | Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka, Kim Peacock | France | Sea adventure |
Henri Fescourt | Charles Vanel, Tania Fédor | France | ||
The Buccaneer | Cecil B. DeMille | Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff | United States | Pirate film |
Bulldog Drummond in Africa | Louis King | John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish | United States | |
Call of the Yukon | , B. Reeves Eason | Richard Arlen | United States | |
Capriccio | Karl Ritter | Lilian Harvey, Viktor Staal | Germany | Adventure comedy |
The Challenge | Luis Trenker, Milton Rosmer | Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker | United Kingdom | |
Coral Reefs | Maurice Gleize | Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir | France | Sea adventure |
The Drum | Zoltan Korda | Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey | United Kingdom | [2] |
Ettore Fieramosca | Alessandro Blasetti | Gino Cervi, Mario Ferrari, Elisa Cegani | Italy | |
Jean Epstein | Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Germaine Rouer | France | Sea adventure | |
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial, space adventure |
Flight into Nowhere | Lewis D. Collins | Jack Holt, Dick Purcell | United States | |
Hawk of the Wilderness | John English, William Witney | Herman Brix, Ray Mala, Noble Johnson | United States | Serial, uncharted jungle island |
Heart of the North | Lewis Seiler | Dick Foran | United States | Western |
Her Jungle Love | George Archainbaud | Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland | United States | Romantic adventure |
I Was an Adventuress | Raymond Bernard | Edwige Feuillère, Jean Murat, Jean-Max, Jean Tissier | France | |
If I Were King | Frank Lloyd | Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
The Indian Tomb | Richard Eichberg | La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen | Germany | |
Eduard von Borsody | René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl | Germany | ||
Kidnapped | Alfred L. Werker | Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew | United States | |
Mollenard | Robert Siodmak | Harry Baur, Pierre Renoir, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat | France | Sea adventure |
The Mountain Calls | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Heidemarie Hatheyer | Germany | Mountaineering adventure |
Old Bones of the River | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay | United Kingdom | |
Christian-Jaque | Charles Vanel, Erich von Stroheim, Suzy Prim, Marcel Dalio, Valéry Inkijinoff | France | ||
La Piste du sud | Pierre Billon | Albert Préjean, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ketti Gallian | France | |
Rose of the Rio Grande | William Nigh | Movita, John Carroll | United States | |
S.O.S. Sahara | Jacques de Baroncelli | Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont | France Germany |
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The Secret of Treasure Island | Elmer Clifton | Don Terry, Gwen Gaze | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
Spawn of the North | Henry Hathaway | George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Sea adventure |
Storm Over Asia | Richard Oswald | Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Michiko Tanaka | France | Adventure drama |
Storm Over Bengal | Sidney Salkow | Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson | United States | |
Suez | Allan Dwan | Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella | United States | |
Tarzan's Revenge | D. Ross Lederman | Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm | United States | |
The Tiger of Eschnapur | Richard Eichberg | La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen | Germany | |
Too Hot to Handle | Jack Conway | Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon | United States | Adventure comedy |
Trade Winds | Tay Garnett | Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern | United States | Adventure comedy, sea adventure |
Under the Southern Cross | Guido Brignone | Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti, Enrico Glori, Giovanni Grasso | Italy | |
Vessel of Wrath | Erich Pommer | Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy |
1939[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Richard Thorpe | Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram | United States | |
Angélica | Jean Choux | Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant | France | |
Barricade | Gregory Ratoff | Alice Faye, Warner Baxter | United States | |
Beau Geste | William A. Wellman | Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward | United States | Colonial (French Foreign Legion) |
Günther Rittau | Hans Söhnker, René Deltgen, Winnie Markus | Germany | Sea adventure | |
Buck Rogers | Ford Beebe, | Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran | United States | Serial, science fiction adventure |
Cadets | Karl Ritter | Mathias Wieman, Andrews Engelmann, Carsta Löck | Germany | |
Congo Express | Eduard von Borsody | Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen | Germany | |
Five Came Back | John Farrow | Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine | United States | Adventure drama |
The Five Cents of Lavarede | Maurice Cammage | Fernandel | France | Adventure comedy |
The Flying Deuces | A. Edward Sutherland | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy | United States | Adventure comedy |
The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith | United States United Kingdom |
Colonial (British in Sudan) |
Gunga Din | George Stevens | Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | United States | Colonial (British India) |
Island of Lost Men | Kurt Neumann | Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Broderick Crawford, Anthony Quinn, Rudolf Forster | United States | |
Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie | United Kingdom | |
La Loi du Nord | Jacques Feyder | Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel | France | |
Mandrake the Magician | , Sam Nelson | Warren Hull, , Al Kikume | United States | Serial |
Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Noah Beery | United States | |
Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell | United States | |
Stanley and Livingstone | Henry King | Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
The Sun Never Sets | Rowland V. Lee | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill | United States | Jungle adventure |
Tarzan Finds a Son! | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | Jungle adventure |
The Three Musketeers | Allan Dwan | Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers | United States | Adventure comedy, musical |
Tropic Fury | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | |
Uproar in Damascus | Gustav Ucicky | Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk | Germany | |
Vidocq | Jacques Daroy | André Brulé | France | |
Water for Canitoga | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | Germany | Western |
The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton | United States | |
Zorro's Fighting Legion | William Witney, John English | Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander de Cordova | United States | Serial |
References[]
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Elephant Boy". AllMovie. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Drum". AllMovie. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
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