Subgenre Sampler
Black Cat, The (1941)- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford… - A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Man Hunt (1941)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders… - A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Sea Hawk, The (1940)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn - Adventure on the high seas with Errol Flynn at the height of his popularity. Magnificent swordplay and battle scenes.
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez - Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
Beau Geste (1939)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston… - Classic Hollywood gallantry with, Gary Cooper as the eldest of three brothers who run away to join the French Foreign Legion, only to clash bayonets…
Gunga Din (1939)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Victor McLaglen - Brilliant, wildly nonsensical adventure yarn has a carousing trio of soldiers let loose in colonial India, then ganging together to defeat the…
Jamaica Inn (1939)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara - Minor Hitchcock item about pirates and smuggling in Olde England.
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William… - Early, often imitated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' musketeer legend, with Louis Hayward as the eponymous man in the mask.
Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier… - Chronicles the numerous exploits of the famed explorer, played by Gary Cooper. More light–hearted than the usual swashbuckler.
Captains Courageous (1937)- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney… - Classic 'boys own' adventure from the pages of Rudyard Kipling, sees Freddie Bartholomew falling off an ocean liner for more rugged sea–faring…
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