Adventure Movies
The Jungle (1952)
An Indian princess (Marie Windsor), her adviser (Cesar Romero) and a white hunter (Rod Cameron) fight woolly mammoths. Filmed in sepia.
Ivanhoe (1952)
Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Blackhawk (1952)
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued…
Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in…
California Conquest (1952)
The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the…
Storm Over Tibet (1952)
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains.
The Brigand (1952)
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo,…
Gift Horse (1952)
Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…
Lydia Bailey (1952)
A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L’Overture,…
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King’s palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of…
Scaramouche (1952)
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend’s murder.
African Treasure (1952)
Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Mara Maru (1952)
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
At Sword’s Point (1952)
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a…
Macao (1952)
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and…
Saturday Island (1952)
When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love —…
Tarzan’s Savage Fury (1952)
The jungle king’s cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.
Mutiny (1952)
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben…
The Wild North (1952)
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of ‘Smoke Jumpers’, the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to…
Bend of the River (1952)
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory…
The African Queen (1952)
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and…
Red Plume – Genghis Khan (1952)
A dashing warrior’s fighting prowess makes the Khan realize that it is better that such a person be an ally instead of the enemy.
Captain Video Master of the Stratosphere (1951)
Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma.
Distant Drums (1951)
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety
Double Dynamite (1951)
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Tales of Robin Hood (1951)
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed…
Westward the Women (1951)
There’s a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from…
Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world’s deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground…
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his…
Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park…
Elephant Stampede (1951)
Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters.
Unknown World (1951)
With the cyclotram, an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle, Dr. Jerimiah Morley leads an expedition into a subterranean world.
Ten Tall Men (1951)
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion’s outpost of Tarfa….
Anne of the Indies (1951)
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle’s true identity as a former…
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a…
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle’s fortune and…
Jungle Manhunt (1951)
Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.