Adventure Movies

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
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101

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the…

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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102

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick…

Beau Geste (1939)

Beau Geste (1939)

Beau Geste (1939)
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112

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
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72

Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
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112

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D’Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc…

Five Came Back (1939)

Five Came Back (1939)

Five Came Back (1939)
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75

Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline’s flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
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82

A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Code of the Secret Service (1939)
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58

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
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121

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots’ lives to earn a major contract.

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Jamaica Inn (1939)
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108

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an innkeeper who’s a member of a…

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The Four Feathers (1939)

The Four Feathers (1939)

The Four Feathers (1939)
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129

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)
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61

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Stagecoach (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)
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96

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)
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73

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
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91

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

Fisherman’s Wharf (1939)

Fisherman’s Wharf (1939)

Fisherman’s Wharf (1939)
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72

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman’s life in San Francisco until Carlo’s widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph,…

Gunga Din (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)
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117

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

Scouts to the Rescue (1939)

Scouts to the Rescue (1939)

Scouts to the Rescue (1939)
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231

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal’s 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Heart of the North (1938)

Heart of the North (1938)

Heart of the North (1938)
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83

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter’s cargo.

Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)

Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)

Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)
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213

An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Adventure in Sahara (1938)

Adventure in Sahara (1938)

Adventure in Sahara (1938)
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60

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Drum (1938)

The Drum (1938)

The Drum (1938)
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104

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl’s…

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Genre: Adventure, War
If I Were King (1938)

If I Were King (1938)

If I Were King (1938)
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101

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François…

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Too Hot to Handle (1938)
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107

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as…

Spawn of the North (1938)

Spawn of the North (1938)

Spawn of the North (1938)
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110

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Barefoot Boy (1938)

Barefoot Boy (1938)

Barefoot Boy (1938)
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63

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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102

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
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85

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Battle of Broadway (1938)

Battle of Broadway (1938)

Battle of Broadway (1938)
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84

The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son’s romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall’s 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian…

Test Pilot (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)
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118

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Boys’ School (1938)

Boys’ School (1938)

Boys’ School (1938)
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98

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming…

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Tip-Off Girls (1938)

Tip-Off Girls (1938)

Tip-Off Girls (1938)
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61

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

Rocket Ship (1938)

Rocket Ship (1938)

Rocket Ship (1938)
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82

A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
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91

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Genre: Adventure, Family
International Settlement (1938)

International Settlement (1938)

International Settlement (1938)
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75

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Genre: Adventure
Missing Witnesses (1937)

Missing Witnesses (1937)

Missing Witnesses (1937)
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61

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in ’30s New York City.

The Hurricane (1937)

The Hurricane (1937)

The Hurricane (1937)
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104

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he’s unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all…

Souls at Sea (1937)

Souls at Sea (1937)

Souls at Sea (1937)
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92

Michael ‘Nuggin’ Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

Genre: Adventure
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
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101

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…

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
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100

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

Genre: Adventure, Family