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Adventure, exploitation film
Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to "Akbar", India, with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), who also narrates the film, together with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.
Adventure, Horror
Adventure
A schoolteacher has taught the locals to read. Her beautiful assistant is teaching Bomba when two ivory poachers arrive in the village and try to force Bomba to lead them to a hidden cache of ivory. Bomba enlists the support of his elephant friends.
Adventure
A millionaire brings a tiger and film crew to Africa in hopes of staging a battle between the tiger and a lion. Commissioner Barnes learns that one of the crew is a murderer and asks Bomba to find out which one. The Lost Volcano erupts again (this film makes use of previously seen footage) and there is a battle between a lion and a tiger.
Adventure
Circus lion tamer Jakra and publicist Squidge are intrigued when they hear about Tama, a beautiful woman from Malaya who may be the rightful heiress to an American family's fortune. To find proof of the claim, Jakra and his girlfriend go with Squidge and another interested party, Professor Thornton, to the Malayan jungle where Tama was raised. There they see her tiger, which can swim, and hear tales of a killer elephant responsible for many deaths.
Adventure, Drama
In 1870s South Africa, Englishman Stafford Parker tries to persuade Boer leader Jan Bloem to hand over control of a potential diamond field. This upsets Bloem's nephew Piet Quieman and businessman Muller; Muller has made his fortune through selling cheap rum to black workers. New arrivals come to Hopetown: a missionary, Hart, and his daughter Mary, and David Raymond.
Adventure, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
Princess Karjan promises pirate captain Edri-Al-Gardian a fabulous reward if he helps her regain her lost kingdom of Misurata from Malek. When the latter destroys Gardian's armada, Karjan and Gardian enter Misurata in disguise in order to get Karjan's hidden jewels to buy new ships.
Adventure, South Seas
Adventure, Drama
thumb|thumbtime=10|Captain Thunder (1930) El Capitan Thunder is a Mexican bandit who brazenly flaunts his ventures until the people of El Paramo demand that something be done about it. Ruiz, the Mexican sheriff, offers a large reward for the capture of El Capitan. Juan and Ynez, a pair of lovers, wish to marry, but Inez's father prefers a wealthy man named Morgan.
Adventure, adventure video game, Drama, historical film, Justice Drama, medieval film, Pseudohistorical Fantasy
Adventure, Drama, silent film
Adventure
Before the film begins, a bandit named Voronsky had attacked a tourist riverboat captained by Chauncey Carson. During the attack, Voronsky damaged the riverboat and Carson bit off his ear. Carson and the passengers escaped and fled to a Chinese village in Manchuria, staying in a hotel while waiting for boat repairs.
Adventure
Adventure
Millionaire Baron de Courland arrives in West Africa in order to hunt for big game. He is accompanied by his girlfriend, Linda Stewart. De Courland hires Jim Logan to be his guide.
Drama
Daniel Carter, a 20-year-old delinquent, first meets six-year-old Boone while doing community service at an East Village grade school. The boys strike up a friendship, during which Daniel learns that Boone's mother is sick and may be hospitalized. He also learns that Boone has an older sister, Charlotte, who lives in Dallas.
Western
After witnessing nightclub owner Tony Pearl murdered by gangster Mike Scarlotti (John Bradford), blues singer Eleanor Spenser (Irene Manning) flees Chicago and heads West on a bus. Soon her picture appears in newspapers across the country. The bus makes a stop in Turquoise City, New Mexico, where Martin Simms (Cornelius Keefe), the crooked owner of the Blue Moon saloon, befriends Eleanor.
After her father's death, Sophie Ware (Wendy Crewson) returns to her home town in hopes of running the family ranch. She struggles with the awkwardness of being home as she is now used to living in a big city as an accomplished musician. She is surprised when Alex (Paul Gross), the farm's handyman, offers her a marriage of convenience in order to keep the farm afloat.
Adventure, Drama, war film
As the Crimean War rages, British officers Captain Eric Evoir (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Major Bruce Lindsey (Richard Wyler) are sent to Crimea to protect a top-secret cannon capable of blasting through the walls of a nearby Russian fort. Lindsey is captured by the Russians and subjected to brutal interrogation. Evoir sets out to rescue his comrade.
Adventure
After a German U-boat is sunk near the end of World War I, its captain, the only living member of the crew 15 years later, plots to retrieve the gold bullion that went down with the boat. He enlists the financial help of a woman who owns a waterfront dive and a world-renowned undersea diver, but when the ship the woman bankrolls sinks the two men sign on to an expedition bankrolled by another woman—this time with scientific knowledge being her motive. They plan to use the expedition's equipment to dive to the wreck and bring up the gold.
Western
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is traveling to Mineral Springs Ranch to visit an old friend, Jefferson Lee (Carl Stockdale), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. On the train, he is robbed and then thrown from the train by escaped murderer Wolf Benson (Boothe Howard). Believing Gene to be dead, Wolf plans to travel to Mineral Springs Ranch and pose as the radio celebrity in order to collect the $10,000 that Lee owes Gene.
Crime
Daily Flash newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), are assigned to cover a fire in an old house, where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman), a mobster suspected of stealing a quarter-million-dollar payroll. The dying Heller tells Brenda that someone took his satchel of stolen money and he gives her a coded message. Kruger (Jack Ingram), the gangster who shot Heller, escapes to his gang's hideout with the bag, but discovers it is filled with paper rather than money.
Action
Boroff is a mad scientist who has invented a "disintegrator gas" and plans to smuggle it to his buyers in Morovania. When his ship, the Carfax, gets stranded on outlying rocks in the first chapter, the Coast Guard comes to rescue him. Recognized by the reporters, Jean and Snapper, Boroff runs and kills the pursuing Coast Guard Ensign Jim Kent, who turns to be Lt.
Adventure, Drama
The setting for the film is in the Cambodian period following the withdrawal of the United States two years prior. In this period when Pol Pot reigned, a journalist is searching for his Vietnamese lover who is missing.
Adventure
Bush pilots Steve Blake and Hoppy Owens are hired to locate a village in the deep jungle by Mark Harper, head of a mining company. Thing are complicated Harper's attractive wife Connie who once had an affair with Steve and will do anything to have Steve fly her away. Their first day of exploration uncovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman who was raised by the tribe after her parents were mysteriously killed years earlier.