Best adventure films 1921 – 1930 - Charts
Best adventure films 1921 – 1930
1. The General (1926)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
2. The Gold Rush (1925)
USA, Comedy / Adventure
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain
3. White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
German Empire, Drama / Action
Directed by: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
German Empire, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
5. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
German Empire, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Theodor Loos, Bernhard Goetzke
6. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards
7. Les Nibelungen : La mort de Siegfried (1924)
German Empire, Fantasy / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Paul Richter, Theodor Loos
8. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman
9. Robin Hood (1922)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse
10. The Big Trail (1930)
USA, Adventure / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler
Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill
11. The Lost World (1925)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Harry O. Hoyt
Cast: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone
12. Beggars of Life (1928)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks
13. Chang (1927)
USA, Adventure / Documentary
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Kru
14. Jánošík (1921)
Czechoslovakia / USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jaroslav Siakeľ
Cast: Theodor Pištěk, Karel Schleichert
15. The Last Command (1928)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent
16. Why Worry? (1923)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
17. The Iron Mask (1929)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett
20. The Mysterious Island (1929)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Benjamin Christensen, Maurice Tourneur
21. The Viking (1928)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Donald Crisp, Pauline Starke
23. Galgin's Mysterious Case (1923)
Czechoslovakia, Adventure
Directed by: Václav Kubásek
Cast: Theodor Pištěk, Ferenc Futurista
24. St. Wenceslas (1929)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Jan S. Kolár
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bohumil Heš
25. Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
Soviet Union, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Yakov Protazanov
Cast: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilinskiy
26. The Prague Executioner (1927)
Czechoslovakia, Adventure
Directed by: Rudolf Měšťák
Cast: Gustav Frištenský, Edmond Trachta
27. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky
28. The Black Pirate (1926)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Albert Parker
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove
29. The Wizard of Oz (1925)
USA, Comedy / Family
Directed by: Larry Semon
Cast: Mary Carr, Bryant Washburn