List of adventure films of the 1940s

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The following is a list of adventure films released in the 1940s.

## 1940

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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa | Alessandro Blasetti | Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa | Italy |
Brazza ou l'épopée du Congo | Léon Poirier | Robert Darène | France |
Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot, Alan Ladd, Louise Platt | United States | Sea adventure
Captain Fracasse | Duilio Coletti | Giorgio Costantini, Elsa De Giorgi | Italy |
Dark Streets of Cairo | László Kardos | Ralph Byrd, George Zucco | United States |
The Daughter of the Green Pirate | Enrico Guazzoni | Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti | Italy | Pirate film
The Devil's Pipeline | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States |
Drums of Fu Manchu | William Witney | Henry Brandon, William Royle, Olaf Hytten, Luana Walters | United States | Serial[1]
Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn | United States | Romantic adventure[2]
Fanfulla da Lodi | Carlo Duse, Giulio Antamoro | Ennio Cerlesi, Germana Paolieri | Italy |
The Fire Devil | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Hilde von Stolz | Nazi Germany |
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Roland Drew | United States | Serial, space adventure[3]
Forty Thousand Horsemen | Charles Chauvel | Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty | Australia | War adventure
Green Hell | James Whale | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States | Adventure drama[4]
I Was an Adventuress | Gregory Ratoff | Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre | United States |
Island of Doomed Men | Charles Barton | Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox | United States |
The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter | United States |
The Man from Niger | Jacques de Baroncelli | Victor Francen, Harry Baur, Jacques Dumesnil, Annie Ducaux | France |
The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone | United States | Western
Moon Over Burma | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Albert Bassermann | United States | Romantic adventure
The Mummy's Hand | Christy Cabanne | Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, George Zucco | United States | Horror adventure
Northwest Passage | King Vidor | Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan | United States | Western
One Million B.C. | Hal Roach | Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Fantasy adventure
Outside the Three-Mile Limit | Lewis D. Collins | Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Ruman | United States | Sea adventure
Il ponte dei sospiri | Mario Bonnard | Otello Toso, Mariella Lotti, Paola Barbara | Italy |
Road to Singapore | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn | United States | Adventure comedy
Safari | Edward H. Griffith | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll | United States |
Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan | United States | [5]
The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | United States | Pirate film[6]
The Son of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders | United States |
South of Pago Pago | Alfred E. Green | Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Victor McLaglen | United States |
South to Karanga | Harold Schuster | Charles Bickford, James Craig | United States |
Strange Cargo | Frank Borzage | Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure drama
Swiss Family Robinson | Edward Ludwig | Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt | United States |
Terry and the Pirates | James W. Horne | William Tracy, Granville Owen, Joyce Bryant, Sheila Darcy | United States | Serial
The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram | United States
United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure[7]
Torrid Zone | William Keighley | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | United States |
Trenck, der Pandur | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Käthe Dorsch | Nazi Germany |
Typhoon | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston | United States |
Victory | John Cromwell | Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke | United States |
Zanzibar | Harold Schuster | Lola Lane, James Craig | United States |

## 1941

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49th Parallel | Powell and Pressburger | Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Raymond Massey | United Kingdom | War adventure
The Blonde from Singapore | Edward Dmytryk | Florence Rice, Leif Erickson | United States |
Bombay Clipper | John Rawlins | William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States |
Burma Convoy | Noel M. Smith | Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey | United States |
Caravaggio | Goffredo Alessandrini | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy |
Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | Nazi Germany |
Il cavaliere senza nome | Ferruccio Cerio | Amedeo Nazzari | Italy |
The Corsican Brothers | Gregory Ratoff | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff | United States | [8]
Forced Landing | Gordon Wiles | Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther | United States |
The Hero of Venice | Carlo Campogalliani | Rossano Brazzi, Gustav Diessl, Paola Barbara, Valentina Cortese | Italy |
Hudson's Bay | Irving Pichel | Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price | United States |
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island | Lew Landers | Sally Eilers, Donald Woods | United States |
The Iron Crown | Alessandro Blasetti | Massimo Girotti, Gino Cervi, Elisa Cegani | Italy | Fantasy adventure
Jungle Girl | John English, William Witney | Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr | United States | Serial[9]
Jungle Man | Harry L. Fraser | Buster Crabbe, Charles B. Middleton, Sheila Darcy | United States |
Law of the Tropics | Ray Enright | Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn | United States |
Marco Visconti | Mario Bonnard | Carlo Ninchi, Mariella Lotti | Italy |
The Mask of Cesare Borgia | Duilio Coletti | Osvaldo Valenti, Carlo Tamberlani | Italy |
Mutiny in the Arctic | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine | United States | Arctic adventure
Pirates of Malaya | Enrico Guazzoni | Luigi Pavese, Massimo Girotti | Italy |
Raiders of the Desert | John Rawlins | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey | United States | Adventure comedy
Road to Zanzibar | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy[10]
The Sea Wolf | Michael Curtiz | Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield | United States | Sea adventure
South of Tahiti | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine | United States | Sea adventure
Sundown | Henry Hathaway | Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders | United States |
Swamp Water | Jean Renoir | Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews | United States |
Tarzan's Secret Treasure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States |
They Met in Bombay | Clarence Brown | Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre | United States |

## 1942

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The Adventures of Fra Diavolo | Luigi Zampa | Enzo Fiermonte, Elsa De Giorgi | Italy |
Arabian Nights | John Rawlins | Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson | United States
United Kingdom | Romantic adventure[11]
Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Nazi Germany |
En äventyrare | Gunnar Olsson | Sture Lagerwall | Sweden |
The Black Swan | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders | United States | Pirate film[12]
Cairo | W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill | United States | Musical
Capitan Tempesta | Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, Carla Candiani, Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | Italy
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Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Dooley Wilson, S. K. Sakall, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Marcel Dalio | United States |
Don Cesare di Bazan | Riccardo Freda | Gino Cervi, Anneliese Uhlig, Paolo Stoppa | Italy |
Drums of the Congo | Christy Cabanne | Ona Munson, Stuart Erwin, Peggy Moran | United States | Adventure drama
The Gaucho War | Lucas Demare | Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, Sebastián Chiola, Amelia Bence | Argentina |
Hitler – Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | Ward Bond, Dorothy Tree, Warren Hymer | United States | War adventure[13]
The Jester's Supper | Alessandro Blasetti | Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti | Italy |
Jungle Book | Zoltan Korda | Sabu | United States | Family-oriented adventure[14]
Jungle Siren | Sam Newfield | Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe | United States |
Law of the Jungle | Jean Yarbrough | Arline Judge, John "Dusty" King, Mantan Moreland | United States |
Il leone di Damasco | Corrado D'Errico | Doris Duranti, Carla Candiani, Carlo Ninchi, Adriano Rimoldi | Italy
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Pardon My Sarong | Erle C. Kenton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lionel Atwill | United States | Adventure comedy
Perils of Nyoka | William Witney | Kay Aldridge, Clayton Moore, Lorna Gray, Charles Middleton | United States | Serial
Reap the Wild Wind | Cecil B. DeMille | Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward | United States | Sea adventure[15]
Ride Tonight! | Gustaf Molander | Lars Hanson, Oscar Ljung, Gerd Hagman | Sweden |
Road to Morocco | David Butler | Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[16]
Simón Bolívar | Miguel Contreras Torres | Julián Soler | Mexico |
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | John Cromwell | Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders | United States |
The Spoilers | Ray Enright | Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott | United States | Western, romantic adventure[17]
Tarzan's New York Adventure | Richard Thorpe | Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan | United States |
The Tuttles of Tahiti | Charles Vidor | Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Curt Bois | United States |
A Yank on the Burma Road | George B. Seitz | Barry Nelson, Laraine Day, Keye Luke | United States | War adventure

## 1943

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Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey | United States | Sea adventure, war adventure
Adventure in Iraq | D. Ross Lederman | John Loder, Ruth Ford, Warren Douglas | United States | Adventure drama
Alaska Highway | Frank McDonald | Richard Arlen, Jean Parker | United States |
Le Brigand gentilhomme | Émile Couzinet | Jean Weber, Robert Favart | France |
Captain Fracasse | Abel Gance | Fernand Gravey | France
Italy |
The Desert Song | Robert Florey | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot | United States | Musical
Il figlio del corsaro rosso | Marco Elter | Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film
Five Graves to Cairo | Billy Wilder | Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim, Akim Tamiroff, Peter van Eyck | United States | War adventure
Flight for Freedom | Lothar Mendes | Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall | United States |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sam Wood | Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou | United States |
Germanin – Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat | Max W. Kimmich | Luis Trenker | Nazi Germany |
I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison | United States | Horror adventure
Immortal Sergeant | John M. Stahl | Henry Fonda, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara | United States | War adventure
Jack London | Alfred Santell | Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward | United States |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian | Nazi Germany | Fantasy adventure
Night Plane from Chungking | Ralph Murphy | Robert Preston, Ellen Drew | United States | War adventure
The Phantom | B. Reeves Eason | Tom Tyler, Jeanne Bates, Kenneth MacDonald, Joe Devlin, Frank Shannon | United States | Serial
Sahara | Zoltan Korda | Humphrey Bogart, Dan Duryea, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram | United States | War adventure[18]
Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States |
Tarzan Triumphs | Wilhelm Thiele | Johnny Weissmuller | United States |
Tiger Fangs | Sam Newfield | Frank Buck, June Duprez | United States |
Two Hearts Among the Beasts | Giorgio Simonelli | Totò | Italy | Adventure comedy
Gli ultimi filibustieri [it] | Marco Elter | Vittorio Sanipoli | Italy | Pirate film
White Savage | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Sidney Toler | United States | [19]

## 1944

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Arthur Lubin | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey | United States |
Le Bossu [fr] | Jean Delannoy | Pierre Blanchar | France |
Call of the Jungle | Phil Rosen | Ann Corio | United States |
Cobra Woman | Robert Siodmak | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu | United States | [20]
El corsario negro | Chano Urueta | Pedro Armendáriz | Mexico | Pirate film
The Desert Hawk | B. Reeves Eason | Gilbert Roland, Mona Maris | United States | Serial
First on the Rope | Louis Daquin | André Le Gall, Irène Corday | France |
Frenchman's Creek | Mitchell Leisen | Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone | United States | Romantic adventure, Pirate film[21]
The Great Alaskan Mystery | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Ralph Morgan, Marjorie Weaver, Fuzzy Knight, Edgar Kennedy, Milburn Stone | United States | Serial
Haunted Harbor | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Kane Richmond, Kay Aldridge | United States | Serial, sea adventure
Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak | United States | Sea adventure, adventure drama[22]
The Lieutenant Nun | Emilio Gómez Muriel | María Félix | Mexico |
The Mask of Dimitrios | Jean Negulesco | Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson | United States | Thriller
Nabonga | Sam Newfield | Buster Crabbe, Julie London | United States |
Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre | United States |
The Princess and the Pirate | David Butler | Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Victor McLaglen, Walter Slezak, Walter Brennan | United States | Adventure comedy, Pirate film[23]
The Tiger Woman | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis | United States | Serial[24]
To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan | United States | Sea adventure

## 1945

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The Black Cavalier | Gilles Grangier | Georges Guétary | France |
Captain Eddie | Lloyd Bacon | Fred MacMurray | United States |
Captain Kidd | Rowland V. Lee | Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland | United States | Pirate film
A Game of Death | Robert Wise | John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier | United States |
Jungle Queen | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Edward Norris, Eddie Quillan, Douglass Dumbrille, Lois Collier, Ruth Roman, Tala Birell, Clarence Muse | United States | Serial
Jungle Raiders | Lesley Selander | Kane Richmond, Eddie Quillan, Veda Ann Borg | United States | Serial
The Naughty Nineties | Jean Yarbrough | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | Adventure comedy
Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | Errol Flynn | United States | War adventure
Savage Pampas | Lucas Demare, Hugo Fregonese | Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil | Argentina |
The Spanish Main | Frank Borzage | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak | United States | Pirate film
Tarzan and the Amazons | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller | United States |
A Thousand and One Nights | Alfred E. Green | Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens | United States | Fantasy adventure
The Wicked Lady | Leslie Arliss | Margaret Lockwood, James Mason | United Kingdom |

## 1946

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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | George Sherman, Henry Levin | Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell | United States |
Le Bateau à soupe [fr] | Maurice Gleize | Charles Vanel, Lucienne Laurence, Alfred Adam | France | Sea adventure
Black Eagle | Riccardo Freda | Rossano Brazzi, Gino Cervi, Irasema Dilián | Italy |
The Captain | Robert Vernay | Jean Pâqui, Pierre Renoir | France |
Caravan | Arthur Crabtree | Stewart Granger, Jean Kent | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure
Cyrano de Bergerac | Fernand Rivers | Claude Dauphin | France |
The Fighting Guardsman | Henry Levin | Willard Parker, Anita Louise, John Loder | United States |
Harald Handfaste | Hampe Faustman | George Fant, Georg Rydeberg, Elsie Albiin | Sweden | Adventure comedy
Lost City of the Jungle | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Russell Hayden, Jane Adams, Lionel Atwill, Keye Luke | United States | Serial
Monsieur Beaucaire | George Marshall | Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield | United States | Adventure comedy
Night Boat to Dublin | Lawrence Huntington | Robert Newton | United Kingdom | Thriller, sea adventure
The Overlanders | Harry Watt | Chips Rafferty | Australia
United Kingdom | Adventure drama
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions | Karl Anton | Viktor de Kowa, Else von Möllendorff, Karl Schönböck | East Germany | Adventure comedy
Road to Utopia | Hal Walker | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour | United States | Adventure comedy
Sangue a Ca' Foscari [it] | Max Calandri | Massimo Serato | Italy |
A Scandal in Paris | Douglas Sirk | George Sanders, Akim Tamiroff, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis | United States |
Son of the Guardsman | Derwin Abrahams | Bob Shaw, Daun Kennedy, Charles King, John Merton | United States | Serial
Strange Voyage | Irving Allen | Eddie Albert | United States |
Swamp Fire | William H. Pine | Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe | United States |
Tangier | George Waggner | Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Preston Foster | United States | [25]
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Acquanetta | United States |
Two Years Before the Mast | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald | United States | Sea adventure
The Wife of Monte Cristo | Edgar G. Ulmer | Lenore Aubert, John Loder, Fritz Kortner, Martin Kosleck | United States |

## 1947

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Adventure Island | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming | United States |
Bethsabée | Léonide Moguy | Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Jean Murat | France |
Blonde Savage | Steve Sekely | Gale Sherwood | United States |
Brick Bradford | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Johnson, Pierre Watkin | United States | Serial, space adventure
Bullet for Stefano | Duilio Coletti | Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese | Italy | [26]
Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chips Rafferty, John Fernside | Australia
United Kingdom | Family-oriented adventure
Calcutta | John Farrow | Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez | United States |
Captain from Castile | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb | United States |
The Captain's Daughter | Mario Camerini | Cesare Danova, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman, Irasema Dilián | Italy |
Don Quixote | Rafael Gil | Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo Domenech | Spain |
The Exile | Max Ophüls | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Henry Daniell | United States |
Forever Amber | Otto Preminger | Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders | United States | Romantic adventure
Jungle Flight | Sam Newfield | Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Bing Crosby | United States |
The Macomber Affair | Zoltan Korda | Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston | United States | Adventure drama
The Man Within | Bernard Knowles | Richard Attenborough, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood | United Kingdom | Sea adventure
Mandrin | René Jayet | José Noguero | France |
Meet Me at Dawn | Thornton Freeland | William Eythe, Hazel Court, Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom |
Queen of the Amazons | Edward Finney | Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison | United States |
Road to Rio | Norman Z. McLeod | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard | United States | Adventure comedy
The Royalists | Henri Calef | Jean Marais, Madeleine Robinson | France |
The Sea Hound | W. B. Eason, Mack V. Wright | Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd, Pamela Blake | United States | Serial, sea adventure
Sinbad the Sailor | Richard Wallace | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Walter Slezak | United States | Action adventure
Singapore | John Brahm | Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner | United States |
Slave Girl | Charles Lamont | Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford | United States | Adventure comedy
Song of Scheherazade | Walter Reisch | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy | United States | Musical
Tarzan and the Huntress | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison | United States |
Unconquered | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Boris Karloff | United States | Western
The White Devil | Nunzio Malasomma | Rossano Brazzi | Italy |

## 1948

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16 Fathoms Deep | Irving Allen | Lon Chaney, Arthur Lake, Lloyd Bridges | United States | Sea adventure
Adventures of Casanova | Roberto Gavaldón | Arturo de Córdova | United States
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Adventures of Don Juan | Vincent Sherman | Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas | United States | Swashbuckler
Angel on the Amazon | John H. Auer | George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett | United States | Romantic adventure
The Black Arrow | Gordon Douglas | Louis Hayward | United States |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | Anthony Kimmins | David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | United Kingdom |
Broken Journey | Ken Annakin | Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Margot Grahame, Francis L. Sullivan, Guy Rolfe | United Kingdom | Adventure drama
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere | Pino Mercanti | Otello Toso, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato | Italy |
Congo Bill | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Don McGuire, Cleo Moore, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Leonard Penn | United States | Serial
Daughter of the Jungle | George Blair | Lois Hall | United States |
Du Guesclin | Bernard de Latour | Fernand Gravey | France |
The Gallant Blade | Henry Levin | Larry Parks | United States |
Idol of Paris | Leslie Arliss | Beryl Baxter, Michael Rennie, Christine Norden | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure
Juan Moreira | Luis Moglia Barth | Floren Delbene, Dora Ferreyro, Nedda Francy, Fernando Ochoa | Argentina |
Jungle Goddess | Lewis D. Collins | Wanda McKay, George Reeves, Ralph Byrd | United States |
Jungle Jim | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States |
Kidnapped | William Beaudine | Roddy McDowall, Dan O'Herlihy | United States |
Louisiana Story | Robert J. Flaherty |  | United States | Docufiction
Man-Eater of Kumaon | Byron Haskin | Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page, Morris Carnovsky | United States | [27]
Miraculous Journey | Sam Newfield | Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, Virginia Grey | United States |
The Mysterious Rider | Riccardo Freda | Vittorio Gassman, María Mercader, Yvonne Sanson, Gianna Maria Canale | Italy |
The Prince of Thieves | Howard Bretherton | Jon Hall, Patricia Morison | United States |
Rogues' Regiment | Robert Florey | Dick Powell, Marta Toren, Vincent Price | United States | War adventure
Saigon | Leslie Fenton | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake | United States |
Scott of the Antarctic | Charles Frend | John Mills | United States | Adventure drama
Le Secret de Monte-Cristo [fr] | Albert Valentin | Pierre Brasseur | France | [28]
Snowbound | David MacDonald | Dennis Price, Robert Newton, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Mila Parély, Stanley Holloway | United Kingdom |
The Swordsman | Joseph H. Lewis | Larry Parks | United States |
Tarzan and the Mermaids | Robert Florey | Johnny Weissmuller, Linda Christian, George Zucco | United States |
The Three Musketeers | George Sidney | Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Vincent Price | United States |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt | United States | Adventure drama, western
Unknown Island | Jack Bernhard | Virginia Grey, Philip Reed, Richard Denning | United States |
Wake of the Red Witch | Edward Ludwig | John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young | United States | Sea adventure, romantic adventure
Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter | United States | Western

## 1949

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Adventures of Sir Galahad | Spencer Gordon Bennet | George Reeves | United States | Serial
Africa Screams | Charles Barton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck | United States | Adventure comedy
Arctic Fury | Norman Dawn, Fred R. Feitshans Jr. | Alfred Delcambre | United States |
Bagdad | Charles Lamont | Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, Vincent Price | United States | Desert adventure
Barbary Pirate | Lew Landers | Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall | United States |
The Big Cat | Phil Karlson | Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker | United States |
The Blue Lagoon | Frank Launder | Jean Simmons, Donald Houston | United Kingdom | Romantic adventure
Bomba, the Jungle Boy | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [29]
Bomba 2: Bomba on Panther Island | Ford Beebe | Johnny Sheffield | United States | [30]
The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price | United States |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Tay Garnett | Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix | United States | Fantasy adventure
Down to the Sea in Ships | Henry Hathaway | Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell | United States | Sea adventure
The Duchess of Benameji | Luis Lucia | Amparo Rivelles, Jorge Mistral | Spain |
Il falco rosso [it] | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Jacques Sernas, Tamara Lees, Paul Muller | Italy |
The Fighting O'Flynn | Arthur Pierson | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helena Carter, Richard Greene, Patricia Medina | United States |
The Jack of Diamonds | Vernon Sewell | Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carroll | United Kingdom | Sea adventure
The Lost Tribe | William Berke | Johnny Weissmuller | United States |
Lust for Gold | S. Sylvan Simon | Glenn Ford, Ida Lupino, Gig Young | United States | Western
Malaya | Richard Thorpe | Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet | United States |
Malice in the Palace | Jules White | Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard | United States |
Mighty Joe Young | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh | United States | Jungle adventure
The Mutineers | Jean Yarbrough | Jon Hall, Adele Jergens, George Reeves | United States |
Outpost in Morocco | Robert Florey | George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff | United States |
Le Paradis des pilotes perdus [fr] | Georges Lampin | Henri Vidal, Michel Auclair, Andrée Debar, Daniel Gélin | France | Desert adventure
The Pirates of Capri | Edgar G. Ulmer | Louis Hayward, Massimo Serato | United States
Italy |
Prince of Foxes | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Orson Welles | United States |
Reign of Terror | Anthony Mann | Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart | United States |
Rope of Sand | William Dieterle | Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre | United States | Desert adventure
Rose of the Yukon | George Blair | Steve Brodie, Myrna Dell, William Wright | United States |
Samson and Delilah | Cecil B. DeMille | Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon | United States |
The Secret of St. Ives | Phil Rosen | Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell | United States |
Sicilian Uprising | Giorgio Pastina | Marina Berti, Clara Calamai, Roldano Lupi, Steve Barclay, Paul Muller | Italy |
Siren of Atlantis | Gregg G. Tallas | Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O'Keefe | United States |
Song of India | Albert S. Rogell | Sabu, Turhan Bey, Gail Russell | United States | [31]
State Department: File 649 | Sam Newfield | William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce | United States |
Sword in the Desert | George Sherman | Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally | United States | War adventure
Tarzan's Magic Fountain | Lee Sholem | Lex Barker | United States |
The Walking Hills | John Sturges | Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland | United States | Western
We Were Strangers | John Huston | Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro | United States |
William Tell | Giorgio Pastina, Michał Waszyński | Gino Cervi, Paul Muller | Italy |
Zamba | William Berke | Jon Hall | United States | [32]

## Notes

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2. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Drums of the Desert". AllMovie. Archived from the original on April 12, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
3. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe". AllMovie. Archived from the original on October 8, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
4. ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Green Hell". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
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6. ^ Eder Bruce. "Overview:The Sea Hawk". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
7. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:The Thief of Bagdad". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
8. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Corsican Brothers". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 11, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
9. ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:Jungle Girl". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
10. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Zanzibar". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
11. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Arabian Nights". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
12. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Black Swan". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
13. ^ "Hitler-Dead or Alive (1942) – Nick Grinde | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". Archived from the original on 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
14. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: The Jungle Book". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
15. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Reap the Wild Wind". AllMovie. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
16. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Morocco". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 29, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
17. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Spoilers". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
18. ^ Williams, Karl. "Overview:Sahara". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
19. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:White Savage". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
20. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Cobra Woman". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
21. ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Frenchman's Creek". AllMovie. Archived from the original on July 24, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
22. ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Lifeboat". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
23. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Princess and the Pirate". AllMovie. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
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25. ^ "Tangier". FilmAffinity. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
26. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Il Passatore". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
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28. ^ "Il segreto di Montecristo". Mymovies.it. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017. (in Italian)
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30. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Bomba on Panther Island". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
31. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Song of India". AllMovie. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
32. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Zamba". AllMovie. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.

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