Action/Adventure

A Yank In Libya (1942)

An American journalist exposes Nazi gunrunners trying to start an Arab revolt.

Director: Albert Herman

Cast: Parkyarkarkus , Howard Banks, Walter Woolf King, George J. Lewis, Amarilla Morris, Duncan Renaldo, William Vaughn, H. B. Warner, Joan Woodbury

Action, Adventure, War, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.

Aerial Gunner (1943)

While recuperating in an Army hospital, pilot Richard Arlen recounts his aerial training and wartime experiences: the rigorous flight instruction, a rivalry with his sergeant for the hand of a girl, and a fight against the Japanese on a South Pacific island.

Director: William H. Pine

Cast: Richard Arlen, William Benedict, Olive Blakeney, Edward Earle, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Mitchum, Chester Morris, Dick Purcell, Keith Richards, Ralph Sanford, Lita Ward

Action, Adventure, War, Black & White, Runtime: 79 minutes.

Air Devils (1938)

Former Marine flyers Larry Blake and Dick Purcell have relocated to a South Seas island where they serve as policemen. Both are attracted to Beryl Wallace, but she doesn't seem interested in either. Meanwhile, a native uprising threatens everyone.

Director: John Rawlins

Cast: Larry Blake, Charles Brokaw, Mamo Clark, Al Kikume, Roy Mason, Forbes Murray, Dick Purcell, Paul Sutton, Minerva Urecal, Michael Visaroff, Beryl Wallace, Billy Wayne

Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Airborne (1962)

A country boy trains to be a paratrooper at Fort Bragg.

Directed by: James Landis

Cast: Bobby Diamond, Carolyn Byrd, Robert Christian, Mike Angel

Action, Black & White, Runtime: 83 minutes.

Beat The Devil (1953)

Offbeat is the only way to describe this John Huston/Truman Capote collaboration about a ragtag group of con men out to swindle each other while on a Mediterranean cruise.

Director: John Huston

Cast: Ivor Barnard, Humphrey Bogart, Giulio Donnini, Jennifer Jones, Bernard Lee, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Mario Perrone, Mimmo Poli, Aldo Silvani, Marco Tulli, Edward Underdown, Saro Urzi

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Black & White, Runtime: 90 minutes.

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

It's "Romeo and Juliet" among the risk-taking sponge divers of the Florida coast, with Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as the young lovers who come from rival diving families.

Director: Robert D. Webb

Cast: Jacques Aubuchon, Richard Boone, Guy Carleton, Angela Clarke, Gloria Gordon, Peter Graves, Jonathan Jackson, Harry Carey Jr., Marc Krah, Terry Moore, J. Carrol Naish, Jay Novello, Gilbert Roland, Charles Wagenheim, Robert Wagner, Rush Williams

Action, Adventure, Romance, Color, Runtime: 101 minutes.

The Big Trees (1952)

Kirk Douglas stars in this rousing adventure saga that takes place in a lumberjack community.

Director: Felix Feist

Cast: Iris Adrian, Mel Archer, John Archer, Lillian Bond, Edgar Buchanan, Sue Casey, William Challee, Ellen Corby, Harry Cording, Kirk Douglas, Alan Hale Jr., Charles Meredith, Eve Miller, Roy Roberts, Lester Sharp, Elizabeth Slifer, William Vedder, Duke Watson, Patrice Wymore

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 90 minutes.

Bird Of Paradise (1932)

Lavish Hawaiian location shots and great special effects highlight this early South Seas drama, with Joel McCrea as a Western playboy who falls for native beauty Dolores Del Rio.

Director: King Vidor

Cast: Agostino Borgato, Wade Boteler, Creighton Chaney, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Arnold Gray, John Halliday, Joel McCrea, Napoleon Pukui, Dolores Del Rio, Bert Roach, Reginald Simpson

Adventure, Romance, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 81 minutes.

Black Brigade (1969)

This well done TV Movie, starring Richard Pryor, Rosie Greer, Billy Dee Williams, and Stephen Boyd, depicts racist attitudes toward black soldiers in World War Two.

Director: George McCowan

Cast: Stephen Boyd, Roosevelt Grier, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Richard Pryor, Aaron Spelling, Paul Stewart, Glynn Turman, Billy Dee Williams

Action, War, Color, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Blood On The Sun (1945)

Hard-hitting newspaperman James Cagney, stationed in 1930s Japan, finds himself caught in an espionage plot when he tries to warn American officials about the growing threat of war.

Director: Frank Lloyd

Cast: Philip Ahn, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Beaumont, James Bell, James Cagney, Rosemary DeCamp, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Gregory Gay, Porter Hall, John Halloran, Joseph Kim, Grace Lem, Arthur Loft, Marvin Miller, Frank Puglia, Sylvia Sidney, Leonard Strong, Emmett Vogan, Rhys Williams

Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War, Black & White, Runtime: 94 minutes.

Bloodlust (1961)

A sadistic hunter traps teenage couples on his remote jungle island, then stalks and kills them for pleasure, keeping his gruesome trophies in glass tanks.

Director: Ralph Brooke

Cast: Walter Brooke, Lilyan Chauvin, Bill Coontz, Wilton Graff, Bobby Hall, June Kenny, Joan Lora, Troy Patterson, Gene Persson, Robert Reed

Action, Adventure, Black & White, 68 minutes.

Call of the Wilderness (1932)

Caesar, the dog, prowls around the woods of the Northwest, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch the dainty habits of a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it---and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time---and then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald) from getting et up by one mean mountain lion.

Director: Herman C. Raymaker

Cast: Caesar the Dog, Francis McDonald, Heinie Conklin, Jose De La Cruz, Pedro Regas, Tom London

Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Call of the Yukon (1938)

In this Klondike adventure, a female reporter heading north for a story gets lost and calls on a handsome guide and wild animals with whom she has a rapport to find her way. During the difficult journey, she and her companions faces many dangers.

Director: B. Reeves Eason

Cast: Buck , Mala , Firefly , Richard Arlen, Nina Campana, Billy Dooley, Al St. John, Swift Lightning, Ivan Miller, Garry Owen, Emory Parnell, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.

Captain Calamity (1936)

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

Director: John Reinhardt

Cast: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Juan Torena, Movita, Crane Wilbur, George J. Lewis, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Irving, Barry Norton, Louis Natheaux, Lloyd Ingraham

Action, Adventure, Musical, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Captain Kidd (1945)

Charles Laughton is superb as one of the most notorious pirates to ever sail the seas, with Randolph Scott as the man charged with bringing him to justice.

Director: Rowland V. Lee

Cast: Abner Biberman, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Harry Cording, Henry Daniell, William Farnum, Al Hill, Keith Hitchcock, Ian Keith, Charles Laughton, Sheldon Leonard, Edgar Norton, Reginald Owen, John Qualen, Gilbert Roland, Randolph Scott, Reginald Sheffield, Frederic Worlock

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 81 minutes.

Caryl of the Mountains (1936)

There's no shortage of action in this enthralling tale (or should that be tail?) starring Rin Tin Tin, Jr. as a faithful canine who helps the Mounties track down an embezzler and killer who was responsible for the death of a beloved fur trapper.

Director: Bernard B. Ray

Cast: George Chesebro, Steve Clark, Earle Dwire, Jack Hendricks, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Rin Tin Tin Jr., Josef Swickard, Robert Walker, Lois Wilde

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 58 minutes.

Cold Sweat  (1970)

Charles Bronson, Liv Ullman, James Mason, and Jill Ireland star in this action packed movie about a ruthless drug runner who holds a man's family hostage.

Director: Terence Young

Cast: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin, Luigi Pistilli, Yannick Delulle, Paul Bonifas, Sabine Sun, Roger Mailles, Nathalie Varallo, Remo Mosconi

Action, Color, Runtime: 94 minutes.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

When strongman Glauco is tricked into going on a sea voyage by his friend Pirro, both of them find themselves on the island of the Amazons during a feud over the succession of the throne. They'll need all their wits to get out alive.

Director: Vittorio Sala

Cast: Rod Taylor, Ed Fury, Dorian Gray, Gianna Maria Canale, Alberto Farnese, Ignazio Leone, Adriana Facchetti, Alfredo Varelli, Gino Buzzanca, Marco Tulli, Renato Tagliani, Daniela Rocca

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 84 minutes.

The Contender  (1944)

Widower Gary Farrell can't afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey, to a high-priced military school and decides to enter heavyweight-boxing tournament in an effort to win the $500 prize money. He wins and turns to boxing as a career and, in a short while, and under the guidance of "Pop" Turner, becomes a Contender for the Heavyweight title.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo, Glenn Strange, Milton Kibbee, Roland Drew, Sam Flint, George Turner, Duke York, Jimmy Aubrey

Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Damon and Pythias (1962)

Guy Williams stars in this classic tale from ancient Greece in which he plays Damon, who volunteers himself to die in place of close friend Pythias, who has been accused of plotting the assassination of King Dionysis I.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Cast: Maurizio Baldoni, Marina Berti, Carla Bonavera, Vittorio Bonos, Andrea Bosic, Don Burnett, Franco Fantasia, Arnoldo Foà, Carlo Giustini, Enrico Glori, Tiberio Mitri, Lawrence Montaigne, Tiberio Murgia, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Franco Ressel, Carlo Rizzo, Aldo Silvani, Guy Williams

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 99 minutes.

Death in the Air (1936)

A group of WWI flying aces are gather to combat a psychotic flyer who is shooting down passenger planes.

Director: Elmer Clifton

Cast: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall, Hans Joby, Gaston Glass, Pat Somerset, Wheeler Oakman, Reed Howes, John Elliott, Willard Kent

Action, Adventure, Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 67 minutes.

Death Rage (1977)

A former mob assassin comes out of retirement to find and kill the man who murdered his brother, only to learn that the murder was only the bait in a trap set for him. Rated R.

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Cast: Martin Balsam, Loris Bazzocchi, Luigi Bonos, Rosario Borelli, Sal Borgese, Barbara Bouchet, Yul Brynner, Giacomo Furia, Renzo Marignano, Tommaso Palladino

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 85 minutes.

Danger Flight (1939)

Drama based on the comic strip "Tailspin Tommy" concerns a man who works with juvenile delinquents, showing them how to build model airplanes that can sky-write words. Little does he know how soon his life will depend on one boy's "getting the message"!

Director: Howard Bretherton

Cast: Tommy Baker, Joe Bernard, Harry Harvey Jr., Dennis Moore, Edwin Parker, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Julius Tannen, John Trent, Walter Willis

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 60 minutes.

Danger Lights (1930)

The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.

Director: George B. Seitz

Cast: Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert, Frank Sheridan, Robert Edeson, Alan Roscoe, William P. Burt, Jim Farley

Adventure, Drama, Black & White, Runtime: 54 minutes.

Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer (1957)

Bruce Bennett stars as the coonskin-capped pioneer in this exciting saga about the opening of the American frontier.

Directors: Albert C. Gannaway, Ismael Rodrguez

Cast: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., Kem Dibbs, Jacqueline Evans, Freddy Fernandez, Fred Kohler Jr., Carol Kelly, Lee Morgan, Eduardo Noriega, Damian O'Flynn, Nancy Rodman, Faron Young

Action, Adventure, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Desperate Cargo (1941)

Trouble's brewing for two lovely chorines who've found themselves stranded in a small Latin American town, and whose only escape is aboard a clipper ship harried by hoodlums. Stars Ralph Byrd, Carol Hughes and Julie Duncan. AKA: "S.O.S. Clipper," "Dangerous Cargo."

Director: William Beaudine

Cast: Paul Bryar, Ralph Byrd, Richard Clarke, Julie Duncan, Thornton Edwards, Don Forrest, Kenneth Harlan, Carol Hughes, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Mulhall, Johnstone White

Action, Adventure, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.