1960s Adventure Movies

208 movies found (page 1/7):

One Hundred and One Dalmatians(1961)

1h 19min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 2,788 votes)

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman

North to Alaska(1960)

2h 2min | Western, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

Directed by Henry Hathaway, John Wayne - With Stewart Granger, Capucine, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, John Wayne, Mickey Shaughnessy, ...

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Swiss Family Robinson(1960)

2h 6min | Adventure, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 134 votes)

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates. A rousing adventure suitable for the whole family, this Disney adaptation of the classic Johann Wyss novel stars Dorothy McGuire and John Mills as Mother and Father Robinson.

Directed by Ken Annakin - With John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk, ...

The Count of Monte Cristo(1961)

3h | History

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara - With Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Roldano Lupi, Bernard Dhéran, Jean-Claude Michel, ...

The Tale of Zatoichi(1962)

1h 36min | Adventure, Action, Drama

3.6/5 (with 52 votes)

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

Directed by Kenji Misumi - With Shintarō Katsu, Chitose Maki, Eijirō Yanagi, Shigeru Amachi

Flipper(1963)

1h 27min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

2.9/5 (with 27 votes)

Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released. A grateful Flipper, however, returns the favor when Sandy is threatened by sharks.

Directed by James B. Clark - With Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Joseph H. Higgins, Kathleen Maguire

Sodom and Gomorrah(1962)

2h 34min | Adventure, Drama, History

2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

Directed by Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone - With Stewart Granger, Stanley Baker, Pier Angeli, Rossana Podestà, Rik Battaglia, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, ...

In Search of the Castaways(1962)

1h 38min | Adventure, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jack Gwillim, Antonio Cifariello, ...

The Incredible Journey(1963)

1h 20min | Adventure, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 44 votes)

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

Directed by Fletcher Markle - With Émile Genest, John Drainie, Jan Ladislav Rubes, Rex Allen, Robert Christie, Tommy Tweed, ...

The Ugly American(1963)

1h 55min | Thriller, Drama

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

Directed by George Englund - With Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt, Arthur Hill, ...

Tintin and the Blue Oranges(1964)

1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family

2.5/5 (with 38 votes)

Professor Calculus's friend develops a blue-skinned orange that can grow on any kind of land and survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong) and therefore solve world hunger. The Professor and his friends, however, run afoul of gangsters who also covet the fruit. The adventure takes them from their home in Marlinspike Hall (Moulinsart), a fictional mansion that is presumably in Belgium, to Spain, where Calculus and another scientist are kidnapped.

Directed by Philippe Condroyer - With Félix Fernández, Ángel Álvarez, Jean-Pierre Zola, Barta Barri, Jesús Tordesillas, Jean-Pierre Talbot, ...

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece(1961)

1h 44min | Comedy, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 35 votes)

After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Vierne - With Jean-Pierre Talbot, Georges Wilson, Charles Vanel, Marcel Bozzuffi, Serge Marquand, Darío Moreno, ...

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It Happened at the World's Fair(1963)

1h 45min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Elvis Presley, Gary Lockwood, Joan O'Brien, Kurt Russell, Red West, Yvonne Craig, ...

Sword of the Beast(1965)

1h 25min | Action, Drama

3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

Directed by Hideo Gosha - With Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kantarō Suga, Mikijirō Hira, Takeshi Katō, Yōko Mihara, ...

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues(1962)

1h 12min | Adventure, Action

3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

Directed by Kazuo Mori - With Shintarō Katsu, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Saburo Date, Eijirō Yanagi

Hellfighters(1968)

2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, ...

The Long Ships(1964)

2h 6min | Adventure, Drama

3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.

Directed by Jack Cardiff - With Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Oskar Homolka, Gordon Jackson, Colin Blakely, ...

Kings of the Sun(1963)

1h 48min | History, Adventure

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, James Coburn, ...

The Iron Mask(1962)

2h 7min | Adventure

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.

Directed by Henri Decoin - With Jean Marais, Claudine Auger, Sylva Koscina, Jean Rochefort, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gisèle Pascal, ...

Scheherazade(1963)

2h 4min | Drama, Adventure

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

Directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit - With Anna Karina, António Vilar, Fausto Tozzi, Félix Fernández, Fernando Rey, Gérard Barray, ...

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon(1963)

1h 32min | Adventure, Fantasy

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.

Directed by Michele Lupo - With Mark Forest, Giuliano Gemma, José Greci, Mimmo Palmara, Paul Müller, Erno Crisa, ...

The Brides of Fu Manchu(1966)

1h 34min | Crime, Adventure

2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.

Directed by Don Sharp - With Christopher Lee, Marie Versini, Tsai Chin, Rupert Davies, Roger Hanin, Heinz Drache, ...

The Fighting Musketeers(1961)

1h 42min | Adventure, History, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.

Directed by Bernard Borderie - With Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot, Perrette Pradier, Georges Descrières, Jacques Toja, Jean Carmet, ...

Erik the Conqueror(1961)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

Directed by Mario Bava - With Cameron Mitchell, Kessler Twins, Andrea Checchi, Folco Lulli, Françoise Christophe, Jean-Jacques Delbo, ...

Captain Blood(1960)

1h 35min | Action, Adventure

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.

Directed by André Hunebelle - With Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli, Lise Delamare, Arnoldo Foà, Alain Janey, ...

Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World(1961)

1h 20min | Adventure, Fantasy

2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

Directed by Riccardo Freda - With Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani, Gabriele Antonini, Leonardo Severini, Hélène Chanel, Dante DiPaolo, ...

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu(1967)

1h 31min | Crime, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In his remote China hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard.

Directed by Jeremy Summers - With Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Wolfgang Kieling, Maria Rohm, Douglas Wilmer, Horst Frank, ...

Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon(1964)

1h 36min | Fantasy, Adventure

2.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Hercules goes to Babylon to rescue the Queen of the Hellenes and free the people of Babylon from slavery.

Directed by Domenico Paolella - With Livio Lorenzon, Franco Balducci, Peter Lupus, Helga Liné, Mario Petri, Anna-Maria Polani, ...

Avenger of the Seven Seas(1962)

1h 30min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Domenico Paolella - With Richard Harrison, Michèle Mercier, Roldano Lupi, Marisa Belli, Paul Müller, Carlo Hintermann, ...

Journey to Shiloh(1968)

1h 41min | Drama, War, Western

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Directed by William Hale - With James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Harrison Ford, Brenda Scott, Albert Popwell, Jan-Michael Vincent, ...