(1933) Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Billie Holiday, James P. Johnson, Moms Mabley.  Robeson is a convicted killer who escapes from a chain gang and sets up his own brutal empire in the wilds of Haiti.  After his minions revolt, he escapes into the jungle where...

(1958) John Slater, Christopher Warbey, Richard George, Joan Newell.  Slater’s quest is to re-acquire his family’s fishing boat, which the family was forced to sell to help pay funeral costs.  Unfortunately, the boat, The Cascade, is owned by three swarthy fishermen who plan to wreck the boat and claim insurance money...

(1963, Parade, Aka CAVALRY COMMAND) John Agar, Richard Arlen, Pancho Magalona, Myron Healey.  Here’s something not too common:  an old fashioned western set in the Philippines.  In 1902, Agar leads a Calvary troop against rebels who infest the surrounding jungle...

(1930) Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert.  Wolheim plays a hard-nosed boss of a railroad yard who befriends a young drifter, who previously was a railroad man himself.  Soon things get dicey when the boss’ girl starts to fall for the handsome newcomer.  The high speed train sequences are pretty amazing for the time... 

(1940) Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt, Charles Oliver, Gordon McLeod.  Radford and Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles as Charters and Caldicott, a couple of well-seasoned yet naïve British world travelers.  By the random act of ordering certain items off a menu, they find themselves the unwitting carriers of a phonograph record filled secret Nazi info.  Of course the Nazis try everything possible to eliminate them...  

(1955) Paul Meurisse, Pedro Armendariz, Folco Lulli, Fernand Ledoux, Leopoldo Frances.  This is a filmed adaptation of an adventure from the 1930s.  The story involves an escaped prisoner from a Middle East conflict who sneaks onto a French craft loaded with weapons for sale. Mucho action and adventure follows, including a great storm sequence...

(1974, aka MARTIAL ARTS) Wai-Man Chan, Chin Hu, Fung-Lan Li.  This Kung Fu drive-in epic follows the ups and downs of a young martial arts aficionado with a plethora of high octane fight scenes thrown in for good measure.  The fight choreography is excellent with plenty of those hokey kung-fu-blow sound effects throughout...

(1949) Dorothea Paul, Betty Williams, Georgie Carey, Cedric Staples.  This obscure British sea-faring docu-drama is all about a lost infant found in a boat near a fishing village.  Having no way to trace his roots, he grows up in the village with his destiny seemingly out in the rolling waves of the ocean...

(1960) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

Special 35mm Edition (1932, RKO) Joel McCrea, Delores Del Rio, John Halliday, Skeets Gallagher, Lon Chaney, Bert Roach.  Don’t let this pansy-sounding title fool you, this is one of the greatest adventure epics of the 1930s, complete with jungle islands, erupting volcanoes, bloodthirsty natives, whirlpools, mighty sailing ships, killer sharks, giant sea turtles, etc...