Best Adventure Films of 1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
This colorful remake of ... Cape Horn. The movie retained slightly over half the cost of the production price tag in its initial release. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Cartouche
Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his ... good time doing so. Hilarious without being condescending, Cartouche was reissued under the completely inappropriate title Swords of Blood. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Five Weeks in a Balloon
With Five Weeks in ... is played tongue-in-cheek, peppered with such overripe dialogue as "You, sir, are a cad!" and "Kismet! We are doomed!" [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Damn the Defiant!
Damn the Defiant! is ... these fearlessly patriotic men to death, as he knows he must? Based on the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Hatari!
Hatari! is Swahili for ... for a minute, Hatari is attractively packaged and neatly tied up with a danceable-pranceable theme song by Henry Mancini. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
In Search of the Castaways
Based on Jules Verne's ... a moment of dire peril. Even so, the film was ideal Saturday-matinee fodder for the kiddie trade in 1963. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Sanjuro
Set in the mid-19th ... fighting and action scenes are memorable, it is Toshiro Mifune's characterization and Kurosawa's camera eye that enhance the story. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
The Magic Sword
In this fun-filled adventure-fantasy, ... gives him a magic sword. Unfortunately, the magic fails and suddenly he must find his own magic from within. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
No Man Is an Island
This is a routine ... facts, those facts and the character of Tweed himself are sacrificed at times to the demand for dramatic effects. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Adventures of Sinbad
This Japanese cartoon, based ... to find the legendary Treasure Island, while protecting a beautiful princess from an evil sultan and various nasty creatures. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
The titular monster is ... film will be compatible with the Sons of Hercules package syndicated to American TV stations in the early 1960s. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
The Tale of Zatoichi
This Japanese adventure is ... runs across. In this outing, he finds himself trying to stop a terrible gang war in the Shimosa prefecture. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
El Rapto de las Sabinas
In this sword and ... out to abduct the hapless Sabine women, who eventually come to love the men who kidnapped and raped them. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
The Return of Zatoichi
In this, the second ... for having only one arm. Blind Swordsman: The Return of Masseur Ichi also features Yoshie Mizutani and Masayo Mari. [ best adventure films - 1962 ]
