Adventure Movies
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to…
The Lost World (1960)
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Letter Never Sent (1960)
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the…
The Time Machine (1960)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
The Savage Innocents (1960)
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys…
Kidnapped (1960)
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading…
Ice Palace (1960)
Alaska: America’s last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb “Czar” Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm,…
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s center.
Never So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
The Angry Red Planet (1959)
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?
Timbuktu (1959)
An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel’s wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.
Ben-Hur (1959)
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he…
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the…
Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on…
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the…
The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
A ship’s captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda (1959)
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings…
SOS Pacific (1959)
A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness…
North West Frontier (1959)
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy’s governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued…
The Devil’s Pass (1959)
Rahim’s older brother Mokhi refuses to take him to Kabul’s big bouzkachi game. Rahim decides to go there on his own. Guided by the angel of death, Azrael, Rahim follows…
Tarzan the Ape Man (1959)
An English colonel’s daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.
Caltiki the Immortal Monster (1959)
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
North by Northwest (1959)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement,…
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Island Fishermen (1959)
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.
King of the Wild Stallions (1959)
A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.
Watusi (1959)
Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain’s son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon’s mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe,…
Green Mansions (1959)
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters…