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Adventure
As a jungle trading post, explorer Steve Collins relates the strange story of a man and a woman being stalked and imperiled by jungle beasts, and a mischievous native boy who plays among the animals. Collins discovers a rare albino gorilla in the heart of the jungle. As he forms a unique bond with the majestic creature, Ruth, an ambitious journalist, becomes determined to uncover the mystery behind Collins's groundbreaking discovery.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, Crime, Science fiction, Splatstick
Adventure
Adventure
The film showcasesthe adventures of Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with three African elephants at Tsavo National Park.
spy film
This serial introduces the World War II scenario when a masked hero tries to prevent Nazi agents from crippling the U.S.'s war effort. The spy ring is led by fifth columnist Jensen, who, with his lieutenant Rudy Thyssen and a network of Nazi saboteurs, is trying to get possession of a top-secret formula the United States had developed for manufacturing synthetic rubber while creating explosive gases and radio-controlled bombs to sabotage the exhausting war effort. Police Lieutenant Dan Barton stages a public dismissal from the police department in order to join the saboteurs ring and learn the secret code they have been using.
Adventure
Action, fantasy film, speculative fiction
A group of fugitive Knights Templar attacks a pirate ship and they are cursed to turn into hideous monsters. To fight the curse and ultimately save the world, they must defeat the Sorcerer (The Black Dragon) who is determined to destroy it.
Adventure
Comedy
Tommy Taylor and "The Professor", two sailors returning from leave to Portsmouth on a tandem bicycle, rescue Lydia, a Wren, who had been hitch-hiking on the road and was assaulted by an over-amorous driver. They get a puncture as they reach Stonehenge. The professor tells them of an old legend that those caught at Stonehenge at midnight on midsummer's night are transported back in time.
Adventure
A king's messenger (Jon Hall) protects a Gypsy dancer (Maria Montez) from a wicked baron who knows her secret.
Adventure
Angelo was once part of the Pope's personal security guard, but fell in love with a woman who later turned out to be a conspirator and attempted assassin. Due to his personal failure, he leaves the guard, becomes a priest, and joins the Keepers of the Treasury, a church organisation responsible for recovering valuable relics. Angelo is entrusted with the mission of recovering King Solomon's ring.
Adventure
The fabled city of Dzamm in Africa is rumoured to be a land of wealth. Looking to exploit its rich resources, Captain Rawlings (Ralph "Eddie" Dunn) dispatches two of his henchmen (Wally West and George DeNomand) to find the hidden trail to the city. After killing a few natives of Dzamm along the way, the inept servants of Rawlings are eaten alive by a large pride of wild lions.
Adventure
Saul Barnard befriends an elephant as a child, and later goes back to rescue it as a man.
Adventure
A noble Spaniard (Jack Palance) escorts a Spanish princess (Barbara Rush) from New Mexico to a ship in California.
The film is the story of Sgt. Oscar Padilla, member of an elite military unit designed for covert operations. His first mission: assassinate Saddam Hussein prior to the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War.
musical film, propaganda film
In the Second World War, the undersized Arthur joins the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan, who is in the same unit as him. Here, his idealistic notions about King Arthur prompt his messmates to trick him into believing that a sword they have dug up is the fabled Excalibur. Armed with this talisman, Arthur strides forth to deal with the Wehrmacht.
Adventure, Comedy, Secret Agent
Western
Roy and his sidekick Teddy Bear are mistaken for the kidnappers of a runaway teenager. After escaping from a posse the two find the teenager, Chip who explains their innocence and has her sister Ysobel and her soon to be husband the rich Craig Allen give the pair jobs. Chip tells Roy she is sure her late father had riches hidden away that the unscrupulous Craig Allen tries to take for himself.
Adventure, spy film
A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns to London to find his lover believes him to be dead and that she is being pursued by his deadliest enemy.
Adventure
Jungle Jim is summoned to a mission in a different jungle area. He is to escort Chief Mahala, returning after studying in the West, to regain the leadership of his tribe. His second mission is to investigate a mysterious blonde witch who has a pet tiger.
Comedy
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly needs some money. Sach sustains an electric shock and gains the ability to predict numbers.
Adventure
Two unscrupulous geologists force the locals to work in a hidden diamond mine. Bomba, who narrowly avoids being buried alive, rescues them and defeats the villains. Bomba demonstrates communication skills as a jungle drummer.
Adventure
In August 1914, a consignment of Vickers machine guns are stolen off a Royal Navy ship, HMS Marlin. An RN Lieutenant aboard the ship goes undercover as a white hunter through British East Africa to find the weapons before they get into the hands of the Germans and alter the balance of power in Africa.
Adventure
thumb|The full film As described in a review in a film magazine, several hundred years ago in England there was a famous highwayman, Dick Turpin, who preyed upon the rich and helped the poor. One day he encountered Lord Churlton and, a little later, in aiding a coach attacked by ruffians, he finds it contains Lady Brookfield. She tells him that she must marry Lord Churlton.