Adventure Movies of 1961
The Devil at 4 O'clock
Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Mysterious Island
Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Yojimbo
Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
David and Goliath
Very loosely based on its Biblical source, this standard Italian sword-and-sandal action film stars Orson Welles as an intense, inward-turning King Saul, deteriorating at the same time that David is rising in ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World
In 13th-Century China, the invading Mongol leader ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Il Colosso di Rodi
Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort was this colorful sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Greece. Rory Calhoun stars as Dario, a ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Gli Invasori
Italian director Mario Bava took a brief hiatus from horror films to make this fairly ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Pirates of Tortuga
In this high-seas adventure set in the 1600s, a British sea captain must go undercover, join a pirate band, and capture the notorious Captain Henry Morgan. But Morgan is ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
The Giant of Metropolis
In the year 20,000 B.C., the continent of Atlantis is ruled by King Yotar (Roldano Lupi), who has set his people on a course of fantastic scientific ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
Hercules in the Haunted World
Horrormeister Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess. ~ ... [ Adventure movie - 1961 ]
