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1956 Adventure Movies

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Moby Dick(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Adventure, Drama
3.5/5 (with 163 votes)

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

Congo Crossing(1956)

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.

Run for the Sun(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 39min | Adventure, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain(1956)

2.1/5 (with 23 votes)

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

Beyond Mombasa(1956)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Manfish(1956)

1h 28min | Adventure
1.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.

Directed by W. Lee Wilder - With John Bromfield

The Cruel Tower(1956)

1h 19min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.

Directed by Lew Landers

The Naked Hills(1956)

1h 12min | Western
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.

Liane, Jungle Goddess(1956)

1h 28min | Adventure
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Researchers in the African jungle find a young white woman living with a tribe, that adores her as goddess. They carry her off and proudly report to the press. It turns out that she may be Liane, the long lost daughter of the rich shipowner Amelongen. So Toren starts civilizing her and takes her to Germany, where she - now in love with Toren - has to defend herself against accusations of legacy-hunting. Will she fit into her new society?

Uranium Boom(1956)

1h 7min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.

Jaguar(1956)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Oil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy (Sabu) of murder.

Directed by George Blair - With Sabu Dastagir

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon(1956)

1h 16min | Adventure, Horror
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...

Directed by Curt Siodmak - With John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Wilson Vianna
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Devta(1956)

2h 58min

Black-and-white fantasy film centred around a king who loses his sight and uses the forces of the ‘serpent world’ to get his sight back. He orders a young man working in the palace to descend into the world, and in the process, the young man falls in love with the serpent princess.

Directed by Pattanna - With Vyjayanthimala, Gemini Ganesan, Anjali Devi

Carib Gold(1957)

1h 11min | Drama

The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.

Silent Fear(1956)

1h 6min | Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing (or dubbed) on a recording of "Extrano Amour (Strange Love.) The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gaashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!

Directed by Edward L. Cahn

The Adventures of Gil Blas(1956)

1h 35min | Adventure

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Directed by René Jolivet - With Georges Marchal

Bold Adventure(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.

Sob o Céu da Bahia(1956)

3h 20min | Adventure

Sob o Céu da Bahia is a 1956 Brazilian adventure film directed by Ernesto Remani. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Ernesto Remani - With Sérgio Hingst
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