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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 254.
Adventure, Pirate Film
Pirates arrive in a small town in Central America. When they find a church in the spot they were expecting treasure, they enslave the townspeople to dig for that treasure. But the pirates find that there is more to be had than what they expected.
comedy thriller, Crime
Treasury agents Art Kerr and Jim Haynes are investigating a global counterfeiting operation believed to be linked to the circus. Acrobat Bert King agrees to help his old friend Art search for the counterfeiters, and his acrobatic partner June Edwards assists him. They are repeatedly threatened by two thugs, Daley and Travis.
fantasy film, speculative fiction
Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Complicating the situation, the monsters' previous owner, evil Queen Mara, has returned to Earth to reclaim her property and take revenge on Captain Mike for stealing them.
Adventure
thumb|The film At a banquet preceding his flight to the South Pole, Commander Donald Hall, a zeppelin commander in charge of the Explorer, learns that his wife, Miriam, whom he worships, requests a divorce. She is in love with Lieutenant Tom Armstrong, his best friend and partner in the flight. Hall agrees to grant the divorce after the flight.
independent film
A farm girl from Iowa moves to Hollywood to pursue her dreams in show business. She joins a major production chorus line, but chaos ensues when all the major actors drop out and are replaced by look-alikes.
Adventure, Drama
Adventure
Ellen Bradford travels to the remote South Sea island of Tonga to marry her fiancé, only to discover that he has become a hopeless drunk and is no longer the man she believed him to be. As the only white woman on the island, she quickly attracts the attention of three very different men — including the dangerous and manipulative “Dutch Mike” Lutze, a local power broker feared by everyone. Ellen soon learns that Lutze cannot be trusted, leaving her with only one potential ally: Jim Thorne, a rugged adventurer with a pirate’s instincts but a gentleman’s heart.
Adventure
Adventurer Jeff Drake sails to a Pacific island in aid of Kelly Walsh, an old friend whose freight line is being sabotaged by a ghost ship (such as the classic Flying Dutchman). Drake and Walsh's investigation concerns the search for Walter Castell, an escaped convict who stole 5 million dollars in diamonds at the close of World War II. Several other people, including Walsh's sister, all want to go to the island.
Adventure, Animal horror, Horror
Adventure, mystery film
On the eve of his wedding, Captain Hugh Drummond has more pressing concerns when he needs to set off from London for Morocco, after his fiancée (Phillis Clavering) has seen Colonel Nielsen from Scotland Yard being kidnapped by an international criminal gang, who try to force him to reveal the secrets of the British Empire's latest military technology. With his fiancée, friend Algy and valet Tennyson in tow, Drummond outwits Scotland Yard's bureaucratic blundering and flies his own plane the 1,200 miles to Morocco, only for the local British Consul to order him home. Drummond and his friends remain though and mount a rescue plan,…
Adventure, Drama
The action takes place at the end of the nineteenth century, in East Africa. Danny Halloran, a disappointed Irish farmer but a good African meat hunter, comes to find his friend, ex-seaman and now tobacco farmer in his jungle retreat, but fails to do so. He discovers that the farmer died - a victim of the crocodiles - leaving a widow, Maria.
Adventure, mystery film
The intended wedding of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond to Phyllis Clavering at her villa in Switzerland is once again stopped short when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes off with their prize possession, a synthetic diamond, made by a secret process by Professor Bernard Goodman, the father of their good friend Gwen Longworth. A guest, Sir Raymond Blantyre, head of the Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate, disappears at the same time, and Drummond suspects that Sir Raymond, who has the most to lose if Professor Goodman proceeds with his plans to publish his secret process, has something…
Action, Adventure
Greg Dickson is an American born and raised in the Philippines. He returns to sell his deceased father's plantation after World War II and Philippine independence. His plantation ends up in the middle of the Huk Rebellion, with Greg and plantation workers fighting the rebel guerillas.
Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film
Transported back in time to medieval England, Zack lands in the middle of a vicious battle between an evil witch and Merlin, the master sorcerer, for control of Arthur's kingdom. It's up to Zack to help Merlin and Arthur reclaim the magic sword Excalibur and return Arthur to his rightful place on the throne.
Western
Working as lumberjacks in the Northwest, Billy West ([[George O'Brien and his pal Laramie spy two men stealing furs from a trap, but they arrive too late to save the trap owner from being shot. Billy suspects Loup LaTour and his partner Chick Carson . While Marna Reynolds dreams of dances and pick chiffon dresses, her father is being forced to purchase stolen furs from LaTour and Carson, and LaTour is throwing a few lecherous glances toward Marna.
Drama, silent film
In a small rural village, impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry the villainous Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner, is dead. Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette sadly consents to be married, mainly for her bankrupt old father's sake. (Raoul had gone away months earlier on a hunting expedition and never returned.) At Nanette's wedding ceremony, Raoul suddenly appears alive at the church and his presence interrupts the proceedings.
Action, Adventure, Drama
Brad Reynolds is a respected pilot for Pacific Airlines. On a flight from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, his aircraft hits a thick bank of fog. Reynolds and his co-pilot, Al Williams, are told by their dispatcher to re-route to Saugus, California, but Brad safely lands in Los Angeles, anyway.
Adventure
Vic Hardy, a scientist working for Jim Fairfield's aviation company, is kidnapped by Jason Grood's gang after discovering radiation emitting from their secret island base. Grood intends to conquer the world and forces Hardy to assist him. Fairfield, along with his niece and nephew and, most importantly, the hero of the title, attempt to rescue Hardy and stop Grood's plans.
Adventure
Three pearl hunters wind up stranded on a South Pacific island. While one of them falls in love with the daughter of a tribal leader, his two companions are more concerned with robbing the tribe's golden treasure.
Adventure
Kavik, a champion sled dog, who has just won a race in Alaska, is sold for $4000 to George Hunter, a ruthless businessman from Seattle, who has local business interests. The plane carrying the dog crashes into the snow-covered wilderness; the pilot is killed and the dog is more dead than alive. The crash site is found by Andy Evans, a young boy who lives in the nearby fishing settlement of Copper City.
Adventure
A developer brings his sister with him to Africa and plans to build a plantation. Commissioner Barnes and Eli appear to lend him a hand, but unfortunately for them (and Bomba's monkey friend) a rogue panther is on the loose. Bomba, with revenge on his mind, is hunting the panther when he comes upon the construction site.
Adventure, Science fiction
In the mid-17th century, the Caribbean city of Port Royal was thriving, but was heavily damaged in 1692 by an earthquake and suffered numerous hurricanes which prevented it from regaining its former glory. A 1907 earthquake caused the city to sink beneath the waves. Tony, a scientist, believes that older portions of the city will soon become visible because of predicted volcanic activity and, after obtaining grant funding, wants to investigate.
Drama
In the 1890s a lumberjack, John, travels to Alaska from Seattle in search of gold. He marries a dance hall girl named Sally, but soon finds that she was once in love with his best friend, Blackie.
Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents' wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorizes the town to prevent statehood from being achieved in order to build his own empire in the vast territory.