Best Adventure Films of 1937
Captains Courageous
A boy learns life-changing ... the story was parodied years later (with a few rather drastic changes) in the Chris Elliott vehicle Cabin Boy. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
King Solomon's Mines
The first of three ... finally locate the fabled diamond cache--and then fate deals an ironic hand, as fate has a habit of doing. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Exiled to Shanghai
Exiled to Shanghai uses ... Exiled to Shanghai has gained curiosity value by virtue of its use of TV journalism as a dramatic device. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Zorro Rides Again [Serial]
Actually it's the great-grandson ... the few serials that can boast a theme song ("Zorro rides again -- riding along, singing a song" etc.) [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Murder at the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes and Watson ... Holmes finds the horse on a neighboring farm and deduces that his old enemy Moriarity is behind the mayhem. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Island Captives
Filmed on a microscopic ... as Silas Barnaby in Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland and the title character in Drums of Fu Manchu. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Tim Tyler's Luck [Serial]
The 12-episode Universal serial ... Stanley Blystone (incidentally, the "Pat O'Brien" in the cast is not the Warner Bros. star of the same name). [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Legion of Missing Men
Legion of Missing Men ... one of the stars of the 1927 version of Beau Geste, from which Legion of Missing Men steals shamelessly. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Windjammer
In this high-seas adventure, ... the passengers begin realizing that their lives are in the attorney's capable hands and begin pitching in to help. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Atlantic Flight
Atlantic Flight was designed ... Dick volunteers to make the round-trip flight to retrieve the serum, thereby setting yet another air record (48 hours!) [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
Guns in the Dark
Acting upon the belief ... he accidentally murdered his best pal, a gunman swears never to draw his weapon again. [ best adventure films - 1937 ]
