Action & Adventure Films
Adventures in exotic locales which do not fall into the categories of Sword and Sandals, Martial Arts, War or Westerns. All films are available on DVD-R format, a few as double features as noted. Please inquire about higher end formats such as BetaSP and DVCam.
High Adventure!
Beneath the 12 Mile Reef (1953) 101m Color. Robert Wagner sponge dives. Octopus attacks!
Bird of Paradise (1932) 80m. Joel McCrea, Dolores del Rio. A sailor falls for a beautiful island girl who may become a sacrifice to an erupting volcano.
The Black Pirate (1926, silent film with music track) Color, 75m. Doublas Fairbanks Sr., Billie Dove.
Call of the Yukon (1938) 70m. Richard Arlen. A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
Captain Calamity (1936) Color, 65m. George Houston. South Seas skipper pretends to discover a fortune but crooked seamen try to bump him off and get the non-existent treasure for themselves. Bonus feature: Sinful Cargo 1936 53m. Conrad Nagel pursues smuggling ring bringing in Orientals.
Captain Kidd (1945) 89m. Randolph Scott vs blackgard brigand Charles Laughton.
Captain Scarlett (1953) Color, 78m. Richard Greene protects citizens from the tyrannical Royalists and saves a damsel in distress.
The Magic Sword (1960) Color, 80m. Evil Basil Rathbone vs. St. George who must slay that dragon.
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 70m. Mad hunter stalks Fay Wray and Joel McCrea.
Outpost in Morocco (1949) 91m. George Raft in the French Foreign Legion. Capt. Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel, but rebellion brews!
Son of Monte Cristo (1940) 92m. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders. Count of Monte Cristo falls for besieged Zona and masquerades as a foppish banker and a masked freedom fighter to aid her.
Jungle Adventures!
Tarzan's Revenge (1938) 70m. Glenn Morris as the ape man.
Tarzan the Fearless (1933) 85m. Buster Crabbe in the feature version of a 12-chapter serial that no longer survives!
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) 70m. Gordon Scott. Tarzan deals with the villainous Schroeder, who is illegally collecting animals for zoos, only to be menaced by Schroeder's hunter brother Sikes.
New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) 75m. Bruce Bennett as the ape man helps secure secret of the Green Goddess statue deep in jungles of Guatemala. Feature version of the 12-chapter serial.
Blonde Savage (1947) 62m. An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman. Bonus feature: Law of the Jungle (1942) 61m. Mantan Moreland. Nazis hunt down archaeologist & company in the jungle.
East of Borneo (1931) 77m. Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart. An excellent jungle thriller about a woman who searches the wild Borneo jungles for her missing husband. Plenty of thrills and crocodiles!
The Jungle Book (1942) Color, 109m. Sabu stars in Kipling's classic tale.
Jungle Bride (1933) 63m. Charles Starrett, Anita Page. Persons shipwrecked on the coast of Africa face many jungle perils. A nice Monogram effort. Bonus feature: Tentacles of the North (1926, silent) 54m. Two ships are trapped in the Arctic ice.
Jungle Cavalcade (1941) 76m. Frank Buck documentary clips of his many animal trapping safaris.
Kong Island (1968) Color, 85m. Scientists land on Kong Island to implant devices in the brains of the gorilla population.
Nabonga (1944) 75m. Buster Crabbe. To clear his father's name, a young man travels deep into Africa to confront a beautiful White Witch - who is guarded by a giant gorilla.
Perils of the Jungle 63m. Clyde Beatty, Phyllis Coates. An animal trainer goes to the Congo to catch lions where he finds a lady lion catcher who needs his help to catch a gorilla. Bonus feature: Desperate Cargo (1941) 62m. Ralph Byrd. Two show girls are trapped on a cruise ship while hoods try to steal the ship's cargo.
Sabaka (1954) Color, 77m. Boris Karloff. In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and sets out alone to battle his enemy.
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978, Italy) Color, 86m. Ursula Andress. A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
White Gorilla (1947) 62m. Ray Corrigan. Wacky jungle thriller with two gorillas and stock footage from a silent jungle serial. Bonus feature: Queen of the Amazons (1947) 61m. White Goddess of the Dark Jungle... She offered ECSTASY and DEATH!
White Huntress (1957) 62m. In the 1890's a blonde battles a giant python and unfriendly natives in the untamed African frontier.
White Orchid (1954) Color, 81m. An archeologist explores the jungles of Mexico to find and document the lost civilization of the Toltecs.
White Pongo (1945) 72m. Scientists and hunters search for an albino gorilla that could be the missing link.
Wild Women of Wongo (1958) Color, 72m. A clan of beautiful women pine for company.
Fast Wheels!
The Big Wheel (1949) 92m. Mickey Rooney. A young man is determined to follow in his father's tracks as a race car driver, even though it caused his dad's death.
Blonde Comet (1941) 67m. Beverly Blake, the 'Blonde Comet," and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car, tears up the tracks and wins races.
The Choppers (1961) 56m. Arch Hall Jr. writes and stars in this thriller about a young hot-rodder who becomes involved with a gang of car thieves and a crooked salvage yard owner. Bonus feature: T-Bird Gang A high school student, working undercover enforcement, goes undercover to infiltrate a teen-based gang called The T-Birds.
Evel Knievel (1972) Color, 89m. George Hamilton. The famed daredevil reflects on major events in his life just before his biggest jump in this dramatized biography.
The Fast and the Furious (1955) 72m. John Ireland, Dorothy Malone. Man on the lam takes a beautiful young woman and her fast sports car hostage and slips into a cross-border sports car race to try to escape the police.
High Gear (1933) 67m. James Murray. When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track. Bonus: Half-Pint Polly (1930) Unusual 20 min. western comedy with Tom Tyler.
Hot Rod Girl (1956) 75m. A small town is turned upside down by illegal drag racing and out of control rebel youth.
The Mystery Train (1931) 62m. Hedda Hopper. A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
Return of Casey Jones (1934) 67m. Charles Starrett. A young engineer is inspired by his role model, Casey Jones.
Phantom Express (1932) 70m. An innocent man trying to save train from a head-on crash with a 'ghost train' is blamed for a train derailment.
43: The Richard Petty Story (1974) Color, 83m. Darren McGavin. Story of race car driver Richard Petty.
Ten Laps to Go (1936) 67m. Larry Evans (Rex Lease), champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva (Duncan Renaldo), who has more ambitions than merely winning the races.
The Wild Ride Jack Nicholson stars as a rebellious punk of the beat generation, who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver
