Adventure Movies
Miss Robin Crusoe (1953)
This 1954 feminist version of “Robinson Crusoe” stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Hayes.
Rob Roy The Highland Rogue (1953)
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to…
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution….
Mogambo (1953)
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.
Fort Algiers (1953)
In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
East of Sumatra (1953)
Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora…who…
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
Wings of the Hawk (1953)
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there’s…
The Golden Blade (1953)
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father’s murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Inferno (1953)
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two…
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take…
South Sea Woman (1953)
Marine Sergeant James O’Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify…
Safari Drums (1953)
A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.
Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
Johnny on the Run (1953)
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through…
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida, intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo,…
Thunder Bay (1953)
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Desert Legion (1953)
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop…
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
Sea Devils (1953)
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her…
Seminole (1953)
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Destination Gobi (1953)
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while…
Africa Under The Sea (1953)
South of Algiers (1953)
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
Peter Pan (1953)
Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Neverland, the kids must face…
Road to Bali (1953)
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the…
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose…
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds….
Jungle Drums of Africa (1953)
In Africa, a deceased medical missionary’s daughter in Africa carries on her father’s work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.
Fangs of the Arctic (1953)
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod’s dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with…
Botany Bay (1952)
Based on the story of the start of Australia’s colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to…
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship’s surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Against All Flags (1952)
In the 18th century, the pirates of Madagascar, lords of the Republic of Libertatia and masters of the Indian Ocean, live in an impregnable natural fortress, killing, robbing and plundering…
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson’s diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his…
The Planter’s Wife (1952)
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.