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1940s Adventure Movies

Public list by WPS with 127 movies or TV shows/series

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To Have and Have Not(1945)

3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

The Sea Hawk(1940)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Romance / Love, History
3.7/5 (with 49 votes)

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Tarzan's New York Adventure(1942)

1h 11min | Action, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.

Tarzan and the Amazons(1945)

3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

Scott of the Antarctic(1948)

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him.

Arabian Nights(1942)

1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves(1944)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.

Hudson's Bay(1941)

1h 35min | Adventure, History
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.

Emergency Squad(1940)

58min | Drama, Action, Crime

Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.

Swiss Family Robinson(1940)

1h 33min | Adventure
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.

'Pimpernel' Smith(1941)

3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

The Crimson Ghost(1946)

2h 47min | Adventure, Action, Crime
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.

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Saraband for Dead Lovers(1948)

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

Jungle Girl(1941)

4h 27min | Action
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.

Typhoon(1940)

1h 10min | Adventure

Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in order to survive.

Unknown Island(1948)

1h 15min | Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...

Torrid Zone(1940)

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

Jungle Drums(1943)

8min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.

Directed by Dan Gordon - With Joan Alexander

Captain Caution(1940)

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

The Spider Returns(1941)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Warren Hull

The Son of Monte Cristo(1940)

1h 42min | Action, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.

Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive(1946)

7min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Wild man of the jungle Goofy is swinging through the treetops when he notices great white hunter Donald Duck pulling into port on his safari boat. He is looking for a wild man of the jungle and Goofy offers himself to Donald...if Donald can catch him which leads the duo on a wild chase through the jungle. Eventually they are pursued in their chase by a lion having switched clothes so that Donald is the wild man and Goofy is the hunter. Goofy escapes in Donald's boat leaving Donald swinging through the trees to escape the lion.

Directed by Jack Hannah

To the Ends of the Earth(1948)

1h 49min | Thriller
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Untamed(1940)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.

Queen of the Amazons(1947)

1h 1min | Adventure
1.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones, Wayne Monroe and the Professor. She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.

The Desert Song(1943)

1h 35min | Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

A Captain at Fifteen(1945)

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake(1942)

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.

Green Hell(1940)

2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

Sky Raiders(1941)

3h 47min | Adventure
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.

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