Adventure Movies
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
During the Mayflower pilgrims’ long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford’s wife Dorothy.
Desperate Search (1952)
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find…
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
A kingdom’s ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find…
Arctic Flight (1952)
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman. But, in reality, he is…
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
The World in His Arms (1952)
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Golden Hawk (1952)
A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who’s posing as a pirate.
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A…
Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the…
Untamed Women (1952)
During World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft. After being administered truth serum, he tells the doctor a story of how…
Caribbean (1952)
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid…
Big Jim McLain (1952)
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the…
Captain Pirate (1952)
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on…
Bwana Devil (1952)
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone…
The Big Sky (1952)
Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is…
Les Miserables (1952)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself…
Lost in Alaska (1952)
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
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,…