Adventure
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway. Along the way we are treated to sea battles, blood-thirsty cannibals, and wall-to-wall action.
Stars: Michèle Mercier, Richard Harrison, Roldano Lupi, Paul Muller, Walter Barnes, Domenico Paolella, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars. Stars: Ivan Pereverzev Aleksandr Shovorin Linda Barrett Konstantin Bartashevich Larysa Borysenko Viktor Dobrovolsky Francis Ford Coppola Aleksey Sazonov
A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. Stars: David Niven Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn Anthony Quayle Stanley Baker Richard Harris J. Lee Thompson Carl Foreman Dimitri Tiomkin
A warrior chieftain dashes between his barbaric allies and a beleaguered city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Nicole Courcel, Ettore Manni, Michel Piccoli, Corrado Pani, Carlo Giustini, Jacques Dufilho, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Vittorio Cottafavi, Peter O'Cord, Luigi Emmanuele, Léo Joannon, Gaetano Loffredo
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Woody Strode, Stanley Kubrick, Dalton Trumbo, Alex North
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and irritated dinosaur make for an interesting dramatic climax.
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Stars: Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Haya Harareet Stephen Boyd Hugh Griffith Martha Scott William Wyler Lew Wallace
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops... But she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Stars: Anita Ekberg, Georges Marchal, Folco Lulli, Guido Brignone, Michelangelo Antonioni
The muscular Hercules performs his Labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole.
Stars: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Gianna Maria Canale, Pietro Francisci
In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.
Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, John Ford
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
Traces, in an easy-to-follow way, the discovery of cosmic rays. You don't need rocket science to follow along with the explanations. Saw it while a Junior in HS and it spurred me to study physics in college. A rare example of good tv programming.
Stars: Richard Carlson (I), Carmen Laroux, Frank Baxter (I), Cora Baird, Bil Baird, Leonor Llausás, Frank Capra, Raoul Kraushaar
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Stars: Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, David Niven, Ronald Squire, Basil Sydney, Trevor Howard, Michael Anderson, John Farrow, Victor Young
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, Cecil B. DeMille, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Elmer Bernstein
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches.
Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Richard Fleischer, Earl Felton, Jules Verne
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Michael Gordon
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.