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List of adventure films of the 1930s
A list of adventure films released in the 1930s.
1930
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| The Big Trail |
Raoul Walsh |
John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr., El Brendel |
United States |
Epic western, wagon train
|
| The Black Watch |
John Ford |
Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy |
United States |
|
| Dangerous Paradise |
William A. Wellman |
Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz |
United States |
|
| A Daughter of the Congo |
Oscar Micheaux |
Kathleen Noisette, Lorenzo Tucker |
United States |
|
| General Crack |
Alan Crosland |
John Barrymore, Marian Nixon, Armida, Lowell Sherman |
United States |
|
| The Green Goddess |
Alfred E. Green |
George Arliss, H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce |
United States |
|
| Hell Harbor |
Henry King |
Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
| Hell's Island |
Edward Sloman |
Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Dorothy Sebastian |
United States |
|
| The Man Hunter |
D. Ross Lederman |
Rin Tin Tin |
United States |
|
| Morocco |
Josef von Sternberg |
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou |
United States |
Desert adventure
|
| Paradise Island |
Bert Glennon |
Marceline Day, Kenneth Harlan |
United States |
|
| Renegades |
Victor Fleming |
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery |
United States |
|
| The Sea God |
George Abbott |
Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Sea Wolf |
Alfred Santell |
Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Silver Horde |
George Archainbaud |
Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, Blanche Sweet |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Spoilers |
Edwin Carewe |
Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson |
United States |
Western
|
| Storm over Mont Blanc |
Arnold Fanck |
Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist |
Germany |
Mountaineering adventure
|
| Vengeance |
Archie Mayo |
Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier |
United States |
|
| Women Everywhere |
Alexander Korda |
J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'Orsay |
United States |
Musical
|
1931
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| The Adventurer of Tunis |
Willi Wolff |
Ellen Richter, Theo Shall, Charles Puffy |
Germany |
|
| Beau Ideal |
Herbert Brenon |
Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Loretta Young |
United States |
|
| Corsair |
Roland West |
Chester Morris |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Danger Island |
Ray Taylor |
Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Andy Devine |
United States |
Serial
|
| Dirigible |
Frank Capra |
Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray |
United States |
|
| East of Borneo |
George Melford |
Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Fifty Fathoms Deep |
Roy William Neill |
Jack Holt, Loretta Sayers, Richard Cromwell |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| King of the Wild |
B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe |
Walter Miller, Nora Lane, Dorothy Christy, Boris Karloff |
United States |
Serial
|
| Never the Twain Shall Meet |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Trader Horn |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu |
United States |
|
| The Unholy Garden |
George Fitzmaurice |
Ronald Colman, Fay Wray |
United States |
|
1932
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| L'Atlantide |
G. W. Pabst |
Brigitte Helm |
France
Germany |
|
| Baroud |
Rex Ingram, Alice Terry |
Pierre Batcheff, Rosita Garcia |
France
United Kingdom |
|
| The Black Hussar |
Gerhard Lamprecht |
Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians |
Germany |
|
| Bring 'Em Back Alive |
Clyde E. Elliott |
Frank Buck |
United States |
Documentary
|
| Chandu the Magician |
William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel |
Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall |
United States |
Secret agent
|
| Devil on Deck |
Wallace Fox |
Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Wheeler Oakman, June Marlowe |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| F.P.1 |
Karl Hartl |
Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre |
Germany |
|
| Hell's Headquarters |
Andrew L. Stone |
Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks |
United States |
|
| Island of Lost Souls |
Erle C. Kenton |
Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| Jungle Mystery |
Ray Taylor |
Tom Tyler |
United States |
Serial
|
| Kongo |
William J. Cowen |
Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| The Mask of Fu Manchu |
Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor |
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| The Most Dangerous Game |
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson |
United States |
Horror adventure, desert island, jungle
|
| The Mummy |
Karl Freund |
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| Peter Voss, Thief of Millions |
E. A. Dupont |
Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Otto Wernicke |
Germany |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Rebel |
Curtis Bernhardt, Luis Trenker |
Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich |
Germany |
|
| Red Dust |
Victor Fleming |
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
| Roar of the Dragon |
Wesley Ruggles |
Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, ZaSu Pitts, C. Henry Gordon |
United States |
|
| The Savage Girl |
Harry L. Fraser |
Rochelle Hudson, Harry Myers |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Shanghai Express |
Josef von Sternberg |
Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Clive Brook |
United States |
|
| Tarzan the Ape Man |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| The Three Musketeers |
Henri Diamant-Berger |
Aimé Simon-Girard, Henri Rollan, Thomy Bourdelle, Jean-Louis Allibert |
France |
|
| Tiger Shark |
Howard Hawks |
Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| War Correspondent |
Paul Sloane |
Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Lila Lee |
United States |
|
| The White God |
George Schnéevoigt |
Paul Richter, Mona Mårtenson, Rudolf Klein-Rogge |
Denmark
Germany |
Arctic adventure
|
| White Zombie |
Victor Hugo Halperin |
Bela Lugosi |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
1933
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| The 1002nd Night |
Alexandre Volkoff |
Ivan Mosjoukine, Tania Fédor, Natalya Lisenko |
France |
|
| Below the Sea |
Albert S. Rogell |
Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen |
Frank Capra |
Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
| Dick Turpin |
Victor Hanbury, John Stafford |
Victor McLaglen |
United Kingdom |
|
| Don Quixote |
G.W. Pabst |
Feodor Chaliapin, George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy |
France
United Kingdom |
Romantic adventure, adventure drama
|
| The Flaming Signal |
George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts |
John David Horsley, Marceline Day, Noah Beery, Mischa Auer |
United States |
|
| King Kong |
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Kiss of Araby |
Phil Rosen |
Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor |
United States |
|
| Laughing at Life |
Ford Beebe |
Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro |
United States |
|
| The Perils of Pauline |
Ray Taylor |
Evalyn Knapp, Robert Allen |
United States |
Serial
|
| Refugees |
Gustav Ucicky |
Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy |
Germany |
|
| Savage Gold |
George Miller Dyott |
George Miller Dyott |
United States |
Documentary
|
| So This Is Africa |
Edward F. Cline |
Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey |
United States |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Son of Kong |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| S.O.S. Eisberg |
Arnold Fanck |
Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet |
Germany |
Arctic adventure
|
| Tarzan the Fearless |
Robert F. Hill |
Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren |
United States |
Serial, jungle adventure
|
| The Three Musketeers |
Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark |
John Wayne, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr. |
United States |
Serial
|
| Timbuctoo |
Walter Summers, Arthur B. Woods |
Henry Kendall, Margot Grahame |
United Kingdom |
Adventure comedy
|
| When Strangers Marry |
Clarence G. Badger |
Jack Holt, Lilian Bond |
United States |
|
| White Woman |
Stuart Walker |
Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton |
United States |
|
| The Woman I Stole |
Irving Cummings |
Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Noah Beery |
United States |
|
1934
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| Adventure Girl |
Herman C. Raymaker |
Joan Lowell |
United States |
Docudrama
|
| The Affairs of Cellini |
Gregory La Cava |
Fredric March, Constance Bennett, Fay Wray, Frank Morgan |
United States |
|
| Beyond Bengal |
Harry Schenck |
Harry Schenck |
United States |
Documentary
|
| Black Moon |
Roy William Neill |
Fay Wray, Jack Holt, Dorothy Burgess |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| Le Bossu |
René Sti |
Robert Vidalin |
France |
|
| Cartouche |
Jacques Daroy |
Paul Lalloz |
France |
|
| Colonel Blood |
W. P. Lipscomb |
Frank Cellier, Anne Grey, Mary Lawson, Allan Jeayes |
United Kingdom |
|
| The Eternal Dream |
Arnold Fanck |
Sepp Rist, Brigitte Horney |
Germany |
Mountaineering adventure
|
| Four Frightened People |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan |
United States |
Jungle adventure, desert island
|
| Le Grand Jeu |
Jacques Feyder |
Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay |
France |
|
| The Lost Jungle |
David Howard, Armand Schaefer |
Clyde Beatty |
United States |
Serial
|
| The Lost Patrol |
John Ford |
Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny |
United States |
Desert
|
| A Man Wants to Get to Germany |
Paul Wegener |
Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Horney |
Germany |
Sea adventure
|
| Marie Galante |
Henry King |
Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian |
United States |
|
| Murder in Trinidad |
Louis King |
Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Victor Jory |
United States |
Mystery
|
| North Pole, Ahoy |
Andrew Marton |
Walter Riml, Gustav Lantschner |
Germany |
Arctic adventure, adventure comedy
|
| Peer Gynt |
Fritz Wendhausen |
Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Otto Wernicke |
Germany |
|
| Pirate Treasure |
Ray Taylor |
Richard Talmadge |
United States |
Serial
|
| The Private Life of Don Juan |
Alexander Korda |
Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon |
United Kingdom |
|
| Pursued |
Louis King |
Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, Russell Hardie |
United States |
|
| Red Morning |
Wallace Fox |
Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Riders of German East Africa |
Herbert Selpin |
Sepp Rist |
Germany |
|
| The Scarlet Pimpernel |
Harold Young |
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce |
United Kingdom |
|
| Schwarzer Jäger Johanna |
Johannes Meyer |
Marianne Hoppe, Paul Hartmann, Gustaf Gründgens |
Germany |
|
| A Scream in the Night |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
Lon Chaney Jr. |
United States |
Mystery
|
| Sixteen Fathoms Deep |
Armand Schaefer |
Lon Chaney Jr., Sally O'Neil |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Tarzan and His Mate |
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway |
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Treasure Island |
Victor Fleming |
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce |
United States |
Pirate film
|
| Wild Cargo |
Armand Denis |
Frank Buck |
United States |
Documentary
|
| Young Eagles |
Edward Laurier, Vin Moore |
Bobby Cox, Jim Vance |
United States |
Serial, family-oriented adventure
|
1935
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| La Bandera |
Julien Duvivier |
Jean Gabin, Annabella |
France |
|
| The Best Man Wins |
Erle C. Kenton |
Jack Holt, Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Black Room |
Roy William Neill |
Boris Karloff |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| The Call of the Jungle |
Harry Piel |
Harry Piel, Gerda Maurus |
Germany |
|
| The Call of the Savage |
Lew Landers |
Noah Beery Jr. |
United States |
Serial
|
| The Call of the Wild |
William A. Wellman |
Clark Gable, Loretta Young |
United States |
|
| Captain Blood |
Michael Curtiz |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill |
United States |
Pirate film
|
| China Seas |
Tay Garnett |
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell |
United States |
Sea adventure, romantic adventure
|
| Clive of India |
Richard Boleslawski |
Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive |
United States |
|
| The Crusades |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith |
United States |
|
| Demon of the Himalayas |
Andrew Marton |
Gustav Diessl |
Switzerland |
Mountaineering adventure
|
| Drake of England |
Arthur B. Woods |
Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler, Jane Baxter |
United Kingdom |
Sea adventure
|
| East of Java |
George Melford |
Charles Bickford |
United States |
|
| Fang and Claw |
Frank Buck |
Frank Buck |
United States |
Documentary
|
| Last of the Pagans |
Richard Thorpe |
Ray Mala, Lotus Long |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Last Outpost |
Louis J. Gasnier, Charles Barton |
Cary Grant, Claude Rains |
United States |
|
| The Live Wire |
Harry S. Webb |
Richard Talmadge |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
Henry Hathaway |
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
| The Lost City |
Harry Revier |
William Boyd |
United States |
Serial, fantasy adventure
|
| McGlusky the Sea Rover |
Walter Summers |
Jack Doyle, Tamara Desni, Henry Mollison |
United Kingdom |
Sea adventure
|
| Midshipman Easy |
Carol Reed |
Hughie Green, Roger Livesey, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Adams |
United Kingdom |
Sea adventure
|
| Mutiny Ahead |
Thomas Atkins |
Neil Hamilton, Kathleen Burke |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Frank Lloyd |
Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Movita |
United States |
Sea adventure, adventure drama
|
| The Mystery of the Mary Celeste |
Denison Clift |
Bela Lugosi |
United Kingdom |
Sea adventure
|
| The New Adventures of Tarzan |
Edward A. Kull |
Herman Brix |
United States |
Serial
|
| ... nur ein Komödiant |
Erich Engel |
Rudolf Forster, Paul Wegener |
Austria |
|
| Oil for the Lamps of China |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Pat O'Brien |
United States |
|
| Professional Soldier |
Tay Garnett |
Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew |
United States |
|
| Queen of the Jungle |
Robert F. Hill |
Mary Kornman, Reed Howes |
United States |
Serial
|
| La Route impériale |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Richard-Willm, Pierre Renoir |
France |
|
| Sanders of the River |
Zoltan Korda |
Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney |
United Kingdom |
|
| Savage Fury |
Lew Landers |
Noah Beery Jr., Walter Miller, Dorothy Short |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| She |
Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel |
Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce |
United States |
|
| Storm Over the Andes |
Christy Cabanne |
Jack Holt |
United States |
|
| The Three Musketeers |
Rowland V. Lee |
Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Paul Lukas |
United States |
|
| Under the Pampas Moon |
James Tinling |
Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
1936
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| Across the Desert |
Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla |
Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt |
Germany |
|
| The Adventures of Frank Merriwell |
Cliff Smith |
Donald Briggs |
United States |
Serial
|
| The Black Coin |
Albert Herman |
Ralph Graves |
United States |
Serial
|
| Black Gold |
Russell Hopton |
Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea |
United States |
Action adventure
|
| The Bold Caballero |
Wells Root |
Robert Livingston |
United States |
|
| Captain Calamity |
John Reinhardt |
George F. Houston |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| The Charge of the Light Brigade |
Michael Curtiz |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, David Niven |
United States |
|
| Dangerous Waters |
Lambert Hillyer |
Jack Holt, Robert Armstrong |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Darkest Africa |
B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane |
Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard |
United States |
Serial
|
| Down to the Sea |
Lewis D. Collins |
Russell Hardie, Ben Lyon, Ann Rutherford |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| L'Esclave blanc |
Jean-Paul Paulin |
George Rigaud, Sanlure |
France
Italy |
|
| Flash Gordon |
Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill |
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon |
United States |
Serial, space adventure
|
| The General Died at Dawn |
Lewis Milestone |
Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff |
United States |
|
| Isle of Fury |
Frank McDonald |
Humphrey Bogart, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay |
United States |
|
| Juan Moreira |
Nelo Cosimi |
Antonio Podestá, Domingo Sapelli, Guillermo Casali, María Esther Podestá |
Argentina |
|
| The Jungle Princess |
Wilhelm Thiele |
Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff |
United States |
|
| The Last Four on Santa Cruz |
Werner Klingler |
Hermann Speelmans, Françoise Rosay, Valéry Inkijinoff |
Germany |
|
| The Last of the Mohicans |
George B. Seitz |
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes |
United States |
Western
|
| The Leathernecks Have Landed |
Howard Bretherton |
Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell |
United States |
|
| A Legionnaire |
Christian-Jaque |
Fernandel |
France |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Lion Man |
John P. McCarthy |
Jon Hall, Kathleen Burke, Ted Adams |
United States |
|
| Michel Strogoff |
Jacques de Baroncelli, Richard Eichberg |
Anton Walbrook, Charles Vanel |
France |
|
| The Mine with the Iron Door |
David Howard |
Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall |
United States |
|
| North of Nome |
William Nigh |
Jack Holt |
United States |
|
| Port Arthur |
Nicolas Farkas |
Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel |
France |
|
| Revolt of the Zombies |
Victor Hugo Halperin |
Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger |
United States |
Horror adventure
|
| Rhodes of Africa |
Berthold Viertel |
Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka |
United Kingdom |
|
| Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island |
Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright |
Ray Mala, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson |
United States |
Serial, US spies in Polynesia
|
| Le Roman d'un spahi |
Michel Bernheim |
George Rigaud, Mireille Balin, Princesse Khandou |
France |
|
| Sea Spoilers |
Frank R. Strayer |
John Wayne, Nan Grey |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Song of Freedom |
J. Elder Wills |
Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy |
United Kingdom |
Adventure drama
|
| Lo squadrone bianco |
Augusto Genina |
Antonio Centa, Fosco Giachetti |
Italy |
|
| Tarzan Escapes |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Tundra |
Norman Dawn |
Alfred Delcambre |
United States |
|
| Uncivilised |
Charles Chauvel |
Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey |
Australia |
|
| Under Blazing Heavens |
Gustav Ucicky |
Hans Albers, Lotte Lang |
Germany |
Sea adventure
|
| Under Two Flags |
Frank Lloyd |
Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell |
United States |
|
| Undersea Kingdom |
B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane |
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue |
United States |
Serial
|
| We're in the Legion Now! |
Crane Wilbur |
Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston |
United States |
Adventure comedy
|
| White Death |
Edwin G. Bowen |
Zane Grey |
Australia |
Sea adventure
|
| White Hunter |
Irving Cummings |
Warner Baxter, June Lang |
United States |
|
| Wings Over Africa |
Ladislao Vajda |
Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt |
United Kingdom |
|
1937
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| Adventure's End |
Arthur Lubin |
John Wayne |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Alarm in Peking |
Herbert Selpin |
Gustav Fröhlich |
Germany |
|
| Aloha, le chant des îles |
Léon Mathot |
Jean Murat, Danièle Parola, Arletty |
France |
|
| The Black Corsair |
Amleto Palermi |
Ciro Verratti, Silvana Jachino |
Italy |
Pirate film
|
| Captains Courageous |
Victor Fleming |
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore |
United States |
Adventure drama, sea adventure
|
| China Passage |
Edward Killy |
Vinton Haworth, Gordon Jones, Constance Worth, Leslie Fenton |
United States |
Sea adventure, mystery
|
| Condottieri |
Luis Trenker |
Luis Trenker |
Italy
Germany |
|
| Elephant Boy |
Robert J. Flaherty |
Sabu, Walter Hudd, W. E. Holloway |
United Kingdom |
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| The Emperor's Candlesticks |
George Fitzmaurice |
William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan |
United States |
|
| The Forsaken |
Jacques Séverac |
Jean Servais |
France |
|
| The High Command |
Thorold Dickinson |
Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, James Mason |
United Kingdom |
|
| I Cover the War |
Arthur Lubin |
John Wayne |
United States |
|
| Jungle Jim |
Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith |
Grant Withers |
United States |
Serial
|
| Jungle Menace |
Harry L. Fraser, George Melford |
Frank Buck |
United States |
Serial
|
| King Solomon's Mines |
Robert Stevenson |
Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Anna Lee |
United Kingdom |
African adventure
|
| The Legion of Missing Men |
Hamilton MacFadden |
Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda |
United States |
War adventure
|
| Lost Horizon |
Frank Capra |
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard |
United States |
|
| The Messenger |
Raymond Rouleau |
Jean Gabin, Gaby Morlay, Jean-Pierre Aumont |
France |
|
| The Mysterious Pilot |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian |
United States |
Serial
|
| Outlaws of the Orient |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Jack Holt, Mae Clarke |
United States |
|
| The Pearls of the Crown |
Sacha Guitry |
Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault |
France |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Prince and the Pauper |
William Keighley |
Errol Flynn, Billy and Bobby Mauch, Claude Rains |
United States |
|
| The Prisoner of Zenda |
John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke |
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, David Niven |
United States |
Swashbuckler
|
| Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
Hanns Schwarz |
Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason |
United Kingdom |
|
| Sea Devils |
Benjamin Stoloff |
Victor McLagen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Slave Ship |
Tay Garnett |
Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney |
United States |
|
| Southern Mail |
Pierre Billon |
Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel |
France |
|
| Three Legionnaires |
Hamilton MacFadden |
Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Anne Nagel |
United States |
Adventure comedy
|
| Tim Tyler's Luck |
Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens |
Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Al Shean, William 'Billy' Benedict |
United States |
Serial
|
| La Tour de Nesle |
Gaston Roudès |
Tania Fédor, Jean Weber, Jacques Varennes |
France |
|
| Troïka sur la piste blanche |
Jean Dréville |
Jean Murat, Jany Holt, Charles Vanel |
France |
|
| Trouble in Morocco |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Jack Holt, Mae Clarke |
United States |
|
| Under the Red Robe |
Victor Sjöström |
Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey |
United Kingdom |
|
| Wallaby Jim of the Islands |
Charles Lamont |
George F. Houston |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| West of Shanghai |
John Farrow |
Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez |
United States |
|
| The Wife of General Ling |
Ladislao Vajda |
Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff, Adrianne Renn |
United Kingdom |
|
| Windjammer |
Ewing Scott |
George O'Brien |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Woman of Malacca |
Marc Allégret |
Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm |
France |
Romantic adventure
|
| The Yellow Flag |
Gerhard Lamprecht |
Hans Albers, Olga Chekhova, Dorothea Wieck |
Germany |
|
| Zorro Rides Again |
John English, William Witney |
John Carroll, Helen Christian |
United States |
Serial, western
|
1938
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| Adventure in Sahara |
D. Ross Lederman |
Paul Kelly, C. Henry Gordon, Lorna Gray |
United States |
|
| The Adventures of Marco Polo |
Archie Mayo |
Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone |
United States |
|
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains |
United States |
Swashbuckler, romantic adventure
|
| Alert in the Mediterranean |
Léo Joannon |
Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka, Kim Peacock |
France |
Sea adventure
|
| Bar du sud |
Henri Fescourt |
Charles Vanel, Tania Fédor |
France |
|
| The Buccaneer |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff |
United States |
Pirate film
|
| Bulldog Drummond in Africa |
Louis King |
John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish |
United States |
|
| Call of the Yukon |
John T. Coyle, B. Reeves Eason |
Richard Arlen |
United States |
|
| Capriccio |
Karl Ritter |
Lilian Harvey, Viktor Staal |
Germany |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Challenge |
Luis Trenker, Milton Rosmer |
Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker |
United Kingdom |
|
| Coral Reefs |
Maurice Gleize |
Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir |
France |
Sea adventure
|
| The Drum |
Zoltan Korda |
Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey |
United Kingdom |
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|
| Ettore Fieramosca |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Gino Cervi, Mario Ferrari, Elisa Cegani |
Italy |
|
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars |
Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill |
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon |
United States |
Serial, space adventure
|
| Flight into Nowhere |
Lewis D. Collins |
Jack Holt, Dick Purcell |
United States |
|
| Hawk of the Wilderness |
John English, William Witney |
Herman Brix, Ray Mala, Noble Johnson |
United States |
Serial, uncharted jungle island
|
| Heart of the North |
Lewis Seiler |
Dick Foran |
United States |
Western
|
| Her Jungle Love |
George Archainbaud |
Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland |
United States |
Romantic adventure
|
| I Was an Adventuress |
Raymond Bernard |
Edwige Feuillère, Jean Murat, Jean-Max, Jean Tissier |
France |
|
| If I Were King |
Frank Lloyd |
Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone |
United States |
|
| The Indian Tomb |
Richard Eichberg |
La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen |
Germany |
|
| Kautschuk |
Eduard von Borsody |
René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl |
Germany |
|
| Kidnapped |
Alfred L. Werker |
Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew |
United States |
|
| Mollenard |
Robert Siodmak |
Harry Baur, Pierre Renoir, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat |
France |
Sea adventure
|
| The Mountain Calls |
Luis Trenker |
Luis Trenker, Heidemarie Hatheyer |
Germany |
Mountaineering adventure
|
| Old Bones of the River |
Marcel Varnel |
Will Hay |
United Kingdom |
|
| La Piste du sud |
Pierre Billon |
Albert Préjean, Jean-Louis Barrault, Ketti Gallian |
France |
|
| Rail Pirates |
Christian-Jaque |
Charles Vanel, Erich von Stroheim, Suzy Prim, Marcel Dalio, Valéry Inkijinoff |
France |
|
| Rose of the Rio Grande |
William Nigh |
Movita, John Carroll |
United States |
|
| S.O.S. Sahara |
Jacques de Baroncelli |
Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont |
France
Germany |
|
| The Secret of Treasure Island |
Elmer Clifton |
Don Terry, Gwen Gaze |
United States |
Serial, sea adventure
|
| Spawn of the North |
Henry Hathaway |
George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour |
United States |
Sea adventure
|
| Storm Over Asia |
Richard Oswald |
Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Michiko Tanaka |
France |
Adventure drama
|
| Storm Over Bengal |
Sidney Salkow |
Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson |
United States |
|
| Suez |
Allan Dwan |
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella |
United States |
|
| Tarzan's Revenge |
D. Ross Lederman |
Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm |
United States |
|
| The Tiger of Eschnapur |
Richard Eichberg |
La Jana, Philip Dorn, Gustav Diessl, Theo Lingen |
Germany |
|
| Too Hot to Handle |
Jack Conway |
Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon |
United States |
Adventure comedy
|
| Trade Winds |
Tay Garnett |
Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern |
United States |
Adventure comedy, sea adventure
|
| Under the Southern Cross |
Guido Brignone |
Antonio Centa, Doris Duranti, Enrico Glori, Giovanni Grasso |
Italy |
|
| Vessel of Wrath |
Erich Pommer |
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton |
United Kingdom |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Woman from the End of the World |
Jean Epstein |
Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Germaine Rouer |
France |
Sea adventure
|
1939
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Richard Thorpe |
Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram |
United States |
|
| Angelica |
Jean Choux |
Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant |
France |
|
| Barricade |
Gregory Ratoff |
Alice Faye, Warner Baxter |
United States |
|
| Beau Geste |
William A. Wellman |
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward |
United States |
Colonial (French Foreign Legion)
|
| Brand im Ozean |
Günther Rittau |
Hans Söhnker, René Deltgen, Winnie Markus |
Germany |
Sea adventure
|
| Buck Rogers |
Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind |
Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran |
United States |
Serial, science fiction adventure
|
| Cadets |
Karl Ritter |
Mathias Wieman, Andrews Engelmann, Carsta Löck |
Germany |
|
| Congo Express |
Eduard von Borsody |
Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen |
Germany |
|
| Five Came Back |
John Farrow |
Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine |
United States |
Adventure drama
|
| The Five Cents of Lavarede |
Maurice Cammage |
Fernandel |
France |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Flying Deuces |
A. Edward Sutherland |
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy |
United States |
Adventure comedy
|
| The Four Feathers |
Zoltan Korda |
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith |
United States
United Kingdom |
Colonial (British in Sudan)
|
| Gunga Din |
George Stevens |
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
United States |
Colonial (British India)
|
| Island of Lost Men |
Kurt Neumann |
Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Broderick Crawford, Anthony Quinn, Rudolf Forster |
United States |
|
| Jamaica Inn |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie |
United Kingdom |
|
| La Loi du Nord |
Jacques Feyder |
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel |
France |
|
| Mandrake the Magician |
Norman Deming, Sam Nelson |
Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume |
United States |
Serial
|
| Mutiny on the Blackhawk |
Christy Cabanne |
Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Noah Beery |
United States |
|
| Only Angels Have Wings |
Howard Hawks |
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell |
United States |
|
| Stanley and Livingstone |
Henry King |
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke |
United States |
|
| The Sun Never Sets |
Rowland V. Lee |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| Tarzan Finds a Son! |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan |
United States |
Jungle adventure
|
| The Three Musketeers |
Allan Dwan |
Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers |
United States |
Adventure comedy, musical
|
| Tropic Fury |
Christy Cabanne |
Richard Arlen, Andy Devine |
United States |
|
| Uproar in Damascus |
Gustav Ucicky |
Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk |
Germany |
|
| Vidocq |
Jacques Daroy |
André Brulé |
France |
|
| Water for Canitoga |
Herbert Selpin |
Hans Albers |
Germany |
Western
|
| The Wizard of Oz |
Victor Fleming |
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton |
United States |
|
| Zorro's Fighting Legion |
William Witney, John English |
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander de Cordova |
United States |
Serial
|
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