List of adventure films of the 1940s
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A list of adventure films released in the 1940s.
1940[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa | Alessandro Blasetti | Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa | Italy | |
Léon Poirier | Robert Darène | France | ||
Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot, Alan Ladd, Louise Platt | United States | Sea adventure |
Captain Fracasse | Duilio Coletti | , Elsa De Giorgi | Italy | |
Dark Streets of Cairo | Ralph Byrd, George Zucco | United States | ||
The Daughter of the Green Pirate | Enrico Guazzoni | Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti | Italy | Pirate film |
The Devil's Pipeline | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | |
Drums of Fu Manchu | William Witney | Henry Brandon, , Olaf Hytten, Luana Walters | United States | Serial[1] |
Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn | United States | Romantic adventure[2] |
Carlo Duse, Giulio Antamoro | Ennio Cerlesi, Germana Paolieri | Italy | ||
The Fire Devil | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Hilde von Stolz | Nazi Germany | |
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Roland Drew | United States | Serial, space adventure[3] |
Forty Thousand Horsemen | Charles Chauvel | Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty | Australia | War adventure |
Green Hell | James Whale | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States | Adventure drama[4] |
I Was an Adventuress | Gregory Ratoff | Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre | United States | |
Island of Doomed Men | Charles Barton | Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox | United States | |
The Man from Niger | Jacques de Baroncelli | Victor Francen, Harry Baur, Jacques Dumesnil, Annie Ducaux | France | |
The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone | United States | Western |
Moon Over Burma | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Albert Bassermann | United States | Romantic adventure |
The Mummy's Hand | Christy Cabanne | Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, George Zucco | United States | Horror adventure |
Northwest Passage | King Vidor | Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan | United States | Western |
One Million B.C. | Hal Roach | Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Fantasy adventure |
Outside the Three-Mile Limit | Lewis D. Collins | Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Ruman | United States | Sea adventure |
Mario Bonnard | Otello Toso, Mariella Lotti, Paola Barbara | Italy | ||
Road to Singapore | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn | United States | Adventure comedy |
Safari | Edward H. Griffith | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll | United States | |
Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan | United States | [5] |
The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | United States | Pirate film[6] |
The Son of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States | |
South of Pago Pago | Alfred E. Green | Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Victor McLaglen | United States | |
South to Karanga | Harold Schuster | Charles Bickford, James Craig | United States | |
Strange Cargo | Frank Borzage | Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure drama |
Swiss Family Robinson | Edward Ludwig | Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt | United States | |
Terry and the Pirates | James W. Horne | William Tracy, Granville Owen, Joyce Bryant, Sheila Darcy | United States | Serial |
The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram | United States United Kingdom |
Fantasy adventure[7] |
Torrid Zone | William Keighley | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | United States | |
Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Käthe Dorsch | Nazi Germany | ||
Typhoon | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston | United States | |
Victory | John Cromwell | Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke | United States | |
Zanzibar | Harold Schuster | Lola Lane, James Craig | United States |
1941[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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49th Parallel | Powell and Pressburger | Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Raymond Massey | United Kingdom | War adventure |
The Blonde from Singapore | Edward Dmytryk | Florence Rice, Leif Erickson | United States | |
Bombay Clipper | John Rawlins | William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States | |
Burma Convoy | Noel M. Smith | Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey | United States | |
Caravaggio | Goffredo Alessandrini | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy | |
Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | Nazi Germany | |
Ferruccio Cerio | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy | ||
The Corsican Brothers | Gregory Ratoff | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff | United States | [8] |
Forced Landing | Gordon Wiles | Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther | United States | |
The Hero of Venice | Carlo Campogalliani | Rossano Brazzi, Gustav Diessl, Paola Barbara, Valentina Cortese | Italy | |
Hudson's Bay | Irving Pichel | Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price | United States | |
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island | Lew Landers | Sally Eilers, Donald Woods | United States | |
The Iron Crown | Alessandro Blasetti | Massimo Girotti, Gino Cervi, Elisa Cegani | Italy | Fantasy adventure |
Jungle Girl | John English, William Witney | Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr | United States | Serial[9] |
Jungle Man | Harry L. Fraser | Buster Crabbe, Charles B. Middleton, Sheila Darcy | United States | |
Law of the Tropics | Ray Enright | Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn | United States | |
Marco Visconti | Mario Bonnard | Carlo Ninchi, Mariella Lotti | Italy | |
The Mask of Cesare Borgia | Duilio Coletti | Osvaldo Valenti, Carlo Tamberlani | Italy | |
Mutiny in the Arctic | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | Arctic adventure |
Pirates of Malaya | Enrico Guazzoni | Luigi Pavese, Massimo Girotti | Italy | |
Raiders of the Desert | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States | Adventure comedy |
Road to Zanzibar | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy[10] |
The Sea Wolf | Michael Curtiz | Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield | United States | Sea adventure |
South of Tahiti | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine | United States | Sea adventure |
Sundown | Henry Hathaway | Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders | United States | |
Swamp Water | Jean Renoir | Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews | United States | |
Tarzan's Secret Treasure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | |
They Met in Bombay | Clarence Brown | Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre | United States |
1942[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Adventures of Fra Diavolo | Luigi Zampa | Enzo Fiermonte, Elsa De Giorgi | Italy | |
Arabian Nights | John Rawlins | Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson | United States United Kingdom |
Romantic adventure[11] |
Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Nazi Germany | |
Gunnar Olsson | Sture Lagerwall | Sweden | ||
The Black Swan | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders | United States | Pirate film[12] |
Cairo | W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill | United States | Musical |
Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, , Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | Italy Spain |
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Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Dooley Wilson, S. K. Sakall, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Marcel Dalio | United States | |
Don Cesare di Bazan | Riccardo Freda | Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig, Paolo Stoppa | Italy | |
Drums of the Congo | Christy Cabanne | Ona Munson, Stuart Erwin, Peggy Moran | United States | Adventure drama |
The Gaucho War | Lucas Demare | Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, Sebastián Chiola, Amelia Bence | Argentina | |
Hitler – Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | Ward Bond, Dorothy Tree, Warren Hymer | United States | War adventure[13] |
The Jester's Supper | Alessandro Blasetti | Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti | Italy | |
Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda | Sabu | United States | Family-oriented adventure[14] |
Jungle Siren | Sam Newfield | Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe | United States | |
Law of the Jungle | Jean Yarbrough | Arline Judge, John "Dusty" King, Mantan Moreland | United States | |
Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, , Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | Italy Spain |
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Pardon My Sarong | Erle C. Kenton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lionel Atwill | United States | Adventure comedy |
Perils of Nyoka | William Witney | Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Lorna Gray, Charles Middleton | United States | Serial |
Reap the Wild Wind | Cecil B. DeMille | Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward | United States | Sea adventure[15] |
Ride Tonight! | Gustaf Molander | Lars Hanson, Oscar Ljung, Gerd Hagman | Sweden | |
Road to Morocco | David Butler | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[16] |
Simón Bolívar | Miguel Contreras Torres | Julián Soler | Mexico | |
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | John Cromwell | Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders | United States | |
The Spoilers | Ray Enright | Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott | United States | Western, romantic adventure[17] |
Tarzan's New York Adventure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States | |
The Tuttles of Tahiti | Charles Vidor | Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Curt Bois | United States | |
A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | Barry Nelson, Laraine Day, Keye Luke | United States | War adventure |
1943[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey | United States | Sea adventure, war adventure |
Adventure in Iraq | D. Ross Lederman | John Loder, Ruth Ford, Warren Douglas | United States | Adventure drama |
Alaska Highway | Frank McDonald | Richard Arlen, Jean Parker | United States | |
Émile Couzinet | Jean Weber, Robert Favart | France | ||
Captain Fracasse | Abel Gance | Fernand Gravey | France Italy |
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The Desert Song | Robert Florey | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot | United States | Musical |
Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film | ||
Five Graves to Cairo | Billy Wilder | Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim, Akim Tamiroff, Peter van Eyck | United States | War adventure |
Flight for Freedom | Lothar Mendes | Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall | United States | |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou | United States | |
Max W. Kimmich | Luis Trenker | Nazi Germany | ||
I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison | United States | Horror adventure |
Immortal Sergeant | John M. Stahl | Henry Fonda, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara | United States | War adventure |
Jack London | Alfred Santell | Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward | United States | |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian | Nazi Germany | Fantasy adventure |
Night Plane from Chungking | Ralph Murphy | Robert Preston, Ellen Drew | United States | War adventure |
The Phantom | B. Reeves Eason | Tom Tyler, Jeanne Bates, Kenneth MacDonald, Joe Devlin, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial |
Sahara | Zoltan Korda | Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram | United States | War adventure[18] |
Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
Tarzan Triumphs | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | Frank Buck, June Duprez | United States | |
Two Hearts Among the Beasts | Giorgio Simonelli | Totò | Italy | Adventure comedy |
Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film | ||
White Savage | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Sidney Toler | United States | [19] |
1944[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey | United States | |
Le Bossu | Jean Delannoy | Pierre Blanchar | France | |
Call of the Jungle | Phil Rosen | Ann Corio | United States | |
Cobra Woman | Robert Siodmak | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu | United States | [20] |
El corsario negro | Chano Urueta | Pedro Armendáriz | Mexico | Pirate film |
The Desert Hawk | B. Reeves Eason | Gilbert Roland, Mona Maris | United States | Serial |
First on the Rope | Louis Daquin | André Le Gall, Irène Corday | France | |
Frenchman's Creek | Mitchell Leisen | Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone | United States | Romantic adventure, Pirate film[21] |
The Great Alaskan Mystery | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Ralph Morgan, Marjorie Weaver, Fuzzy Knight, Edgar Kennedy, Milburn Stone | United States | Serial |
Haunted Harbor | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Kane Richmond, Kay Aldridge | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama[22] |
The Lieutenant Nun | Emilio Gómez Muriel | María Félix | Mexico | |
The Mask of Dimitrios | Jean Negulesco | Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson | United States | Thriller |
Nabonga | Sam Newfield | Buster Crabbe, Julie London | United States | |
Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre | United States | |
The Princess and the Pirate | David Butler | Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Victor McLaglen, Walter Slezak, Walter Brennan | United States | Adventure comedy, Pirate film[23] |
The Tiger Woman | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis | United States | Serial[24] |
To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan | United States | Sea adventure |
1945[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Black Cavalier | Gilles Grangier | Georges Guétary | France | |
Captain Eddie | Lloyd Bacon | Fred MacMurray | United States | |
Captain Kidd | Rowland V. Lee | Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland | United States | Pirate film |
A Game of Death | Robert Wise | John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier | United States | |
Jungle Queen | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Edward Norris, Eddie Quillan, Douglass Dumbrille, Lois Collier, Ruth Roman, Tala Birell, Clarence Muse | United States | Serial |
Jungle Raiders | Lesley Selander | Kane Richmond, Eddie Quillan, Veda Ann Borg | United States | Serial |
The Naughty Nineties | Jean Yarbrough | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | Adventure comedy |
Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | Errol Flynn | United States | War adventure |
Savage Pampas | Lucas Demare, Hugo Fregonese | Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil | Argentina | |
The Spanish Main | Frank Borzage | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak | United States | Pirate film |
Tarzan and the Amazons | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
A Thousand and One Nights | Alfred E. Green | Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens | United States | Fantasy adventure |
The Wicked Lady | Leslie Arliss | Margaret Lockwood, James Mason | United Kingdom |
1946[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | George Sherman, Henry Levin | Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell | United States | |
Maurice Gleize | Charles Vanel, , Alfred Adam | France | Sea adventure | |
Black Eagle | Riccardo Freda | Rossano Brazzi, Gino Cervi, Irasema Dilián | Italy | |
The Captain | Robert Vernay | Jean Pâqui, Pierre Renoir | France | |
Caravan | Arthur Crabtree | Stewart Granger, Jean Kent | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Fernand Rivers | Claude Dauphin | France | |
The Fighting Guardsman | Henry Levin | Willard Parker, Anita Louise, John Loder | United States | |
Hampe Faustman | George Fant, Georg Rydeberg, Elsie Albiin | Sweden | Adventure comedy | |
Lost City of the Jungle | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Russell Hayden, Jane Adams, Lionel Atwill, Keye Luke | United States | Serial |
Monsieur Beaucaire | George Marshall | Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield | United States | Adventure comedy |
Night Boat to Dublin | Lawrence Huntington | Robert Newton | United Kingdom | Thriller, sea adventure |
The Overlanders | Harry Watt | Chips Rafferty | Australia United Kingdom |
Adventure drama |
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | Karl Anton | Viktor de Kowa, Else von Möllendorff, Karl Schönböck | East Germany | Adventure comedy |
Road to Utopia | Hal Walker | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy |
Massimo Serato | Italy | |||
A Scandal in Paris | Douglas Sirk | George Sanders, Akim Tamiroff, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis | United States | |
Son of the Guardsman | Derwin Abrahams | Bob Shaw, Daun Kennedy, Charles King, John Merton | United States | Serial |
Strange Voyage | Irving Allen | Eddie Albert | United States | |
Swamp Fire | William H. Pine | Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe | United States | |
Tangier | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster | United States | [25] |
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Acquanetta | United States | |
Two Years Before the Mast | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald | United States | Sea adventure |
The Wife of Monte Cristo | Edgar G. Ulmer | Lenore Aubert, John Loder, Fritz Kortner, Martin Kosleck | United States |
1947[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventure Island | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming | United States | |
Bethsabée | Léonide Moguy | Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Jean Murat | France | |
Blonde Savage | Steve Sekely | Gale Sherwood | United States | |
Brick Bradford | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Johnson, Pierre Watkin | United States | Serial, space adventure |
Bullet for Stefano | Duilio Coletti | Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese | Italy | [26] |
Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chips Rafferty, John Fernside | Australia United Kingdom |
Family-oriented adventure |
Calcutta | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez | United States | |
Captain from Castile | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb | United States | |
The Captain's Daughter | Mario Camerini | Cesare Danova, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman, Irasema Dilián | Italy | |
Don Quixote | Rafael Gil | Rafael Rivelles, | Spain | |
The Exile | Max Ophüls | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Henry Daniell | United States | |
Forever Amber | Otto Preminger | Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders | United States | Romantic adventure |
Jungle Flight | Sam Newfield | Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Bing Crosby | United States | |
The Macomber Affair | Zoltan Korda | Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston | United States | Adventure drama |
The Man Within | Bernard Knowles | Richard Attenborough, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
Mandrin | René Jayet | José Noguero | France | |
Meet Me at Dawn | Thornton Freeland | William Eythe, Hazel Court, Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom | |
Queen of the Amazons | Edward Finney | Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison | United States | |
Road to Rio | Norman Z. McLeod | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard | United States | Adventure comedy |
The Royalists | Henri Calef | Jean Marais, Madeleine Robinson | France | |
The Sea Hound | , Mack V. Wright | Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd, Pamela Blake | United States | Serial, sea adventure |
Sinbad the Sailor | Richard Wallace | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Walter Slezak | United States | Action adventure |
Singapore | John Brahm | Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner | United States | |
Slave Girl | Charles Lamont | Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford | United States | Adventure comedy |
Song of Scheherazade | Walter Reisch | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy | United States | Musical |
Tarzan and the Huntress | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison | United States | |
Unconquered | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Boris Karloff | United States | Western |
The White Devil | Nunzio Malasomma | Rossano Brazzi | Italy |
1948[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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16 Fathoms Deep | Irving Allen | Lon Chaney, Arthur Lake, Lloyd Bridges | United States | Sea adventure |
Adventures of Casanova | Roberto Gavaldón | Arturo de Córdova | United States Mexico |
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Adventures of Don Juan | Vincent Sherman | Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas | United States | Swashbuckler |
Angel on the Amazon | John H. Auer | George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett | United States | Romantic adventure |
The Black Arrow | Gordon Douglas | Louis Hayward | United States | |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | Anthony Kimmins | David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | United Kingdom | |
Broken Journey | Ken Annakin | Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Margot Grahame, Francis L. Sullivan, Guy Rolfe | United Kingdom | Adventure drama |
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere | Pino Mercanti | Otello Toso, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato | Italy | |
Congo Bill | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Don McGuire, Cleo Moore, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Leonard Penn | United States | Serial |
Daughter of the Jungle | George Blair | Lois Hall | United States | |
Du Guesclin | Fernand Gravey | France | ||
The Gallant Blade | Henry Levin | Larry Parks | United States | |
Idol of Paris | Leslie Arliss | Beryl Baxter, Michael Rennie, Christine Norden | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
Juan Moreira | Luis Moglia Barth | Floren Delbene, , Nedda Francy, Fernando Ochoa | Argentina | |
Jungle Goddess | Lewis D. Collins | Wanda McKay, George Reeves, Ralph Byrd | United States | |
Jungle Jim | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
Kidnapped | William Beaudine | Roddy McDowall, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
Louisiana Story | Robert J. Flaherty | United States | Docufiction | |
Man-Eater of Kumaon | Byron Haskin | Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page, Morris Carnovsky | United States | [27] |
Miraculous Journey | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, Virginia Grey | United States | |
The Mysterious Rider | Riccardo Freda | Vittorio Gassman, María Mercader, Yvonne Sanson, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy | |
The Prince of Thieves | Howard Bretherton | Jon Hall, Patricia Morison | United States | |
Rogues' Regiment | Robert Florey | Dick Powell, Marta Toren, Vincent Price | United States | War adventure |
Saigon | Leslie Fenton | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake | United States | |
Scott of the Antarctic | Charles Frend | John Mills | United States | Adventure drama |
Albert Valentin | Pierre Brasseur | France | [28] | |
Snowbound | David MacDonald | Dennis Price, Robert Newton, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Mila Parély, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom | |
The Swordsman | Joseph H. Lewis | Larry Parks | United States | |
Tarzan and the Mermaids | Robert Florey | Johnny Weissmuller, Linda Christian, George Zucco | United States | |
The Three Musketeers | George Sidney | Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Vincent Price | United States | |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt | United States | Adventure drama, western |
Unknown Island | Jack Bernhard | Virginia Grey, Philip Reed, Richard Denning | United States | |
Wake of the Red Witch | Edward Ludwig | John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure |
Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter | United States | Western |
1949[]
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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Adventures of Sir Galahad | Spencer Gordon Bennet | George Reeves | United States | Serial |
Africa Screams | Charles Barton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck | United States | Adventure comedy |
Bagdad | Charles Lamont | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, Vincent Price | United States | Desert adventure |
Barbary Pirate | Lew Landers | Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall | United States | |
The Big Cat | Phil Karlson | Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker | United States | |
The Blue Lagoon | Frank Launder | Jean Simmons, Donald Houston | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure |
Bomba, the Jungle Boy | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [29] |
Bomba 2: Bomba on Panther Island | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [30] |
The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price | United States | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Bing Crosby | United States | Fantasy adventure |
Down to the Sea in Ships | Henry Hathaway | Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell | United States | Sea adventure |
The Duchess of Benameji | Luis Lucia | Amparo Rivelles, Jorge Mistral | Spain | |
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Jacques Sernas, Tamara Lees, Paul Muller | Italy | ||
The Fighting O'Flynn | Arthur Pierson | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helena Carter, Richard Greene, Patricia Medina | United States | |
The Jack of Diamonds | Vernon Sewell | Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carroll | United Kingdom | Sea adventure |
The Lost Tribe | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States | |
Lust for Gold | S. Sylvan Simon | Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young | United States | Western |
Malice in the Palace | Jules White | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard | United States | |
Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet | United States | |
Mighty Joe Young | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh | United States | Jungle adventure |
The Mutineers | Jean Yarbrough | Jon Hall, Adele Jergens, George Reeves | United States | |
Outpost in Morocco | Robert Florey | George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff | United States | |
Georges Lampin | Henri Vidal, Michel Auclair, Andrée Debar, Daniel Gélin | France | Desert adventure | |
The Pirates of Capri | Edgar G. Ulmer | Louis Hayward, Massimo Serato | United States Italy |
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Prince of Foxes | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Orson Welles | United States | |
Reign of Terror | Anthony Mann | Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart | United States | |
Rope of Sand | William Dieterle | Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre | United States | Desert adventure |
Rose of the Yukon | George Blair | Steve Brodie, Myrna Dell, William Wright | United States | |
Samson and Delilah | Cecil B. DeMille | Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon | United States | |
The Secret of St. Ives | Phil Rosen | Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell | United States | |
Sicilian Uprising | Giorgio Pastina | Marina Berti, Clara Calamai, Roldano Lupi, Steve Barclay, Paul Muller | Italy | |
Siren of Atlantis | Gregg G. Tallas | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O'Keefe | United States | |
Song of India | Albert S. Rogell | Sabu, Turhan Bey, Gail Russell | United States | [31] |
State Department: File 649 | Sam Newfield | William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce | United States | |
Sword in the Desert | George Sherman | Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally | United States | War adventure |
Tarzan's Magic Fountain | Lee Sholem | Lex Barker | United States | |
The Walking Hills | John Sturges | Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland | United States | Western |
We Were Strangers | John Huston | Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro | United States | |
William Tell | Giorgio Pastina, Michał Waszyński | Gino Cervi, Paul Muller | Italy | |
Zamba | William Berke | Jon Hall | United States | [32] |
Notes[]
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- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe". AllMovie. Archived from the original on October 8, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Green Hell". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ "Genre: Santa Fe Trail". TCM. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ Eder Bruce. "Overview:The Sea Hawk". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:The Thief of Bagdad". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Corsican Brothers". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 11, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:Jungle Girl". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Zanzibar". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Arabian Nights". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Black Swan". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ "Hitler-Dead or Alive (1942) – Nick Grinde | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". Archived from the original on 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Jungle Book". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Reap the Wild Wind". AllMovie. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Morocco". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 29, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Spoilers". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Williams, Karl. "Overview:Sahara". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:White Savage". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Cobra Woman". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Frenchman's Creek". AllMovie. Archived from the original on July 24, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Lifeboat". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Princess and the Pirate". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:The Tiger Woman". AllMovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ "Tangier". FilmAffinity. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Il Passatore". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Man-Eater of Kumaon". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ "Il segreto di Montecristo". Mymovies.it. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017. (in Italian)
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Bomba the Jungle Boy". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Bomba on Panther Island". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Song of India". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Zamba". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
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