Best adventure films 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best adventure films 1931 – 1940
1. It Happened One Night (1934)
USA, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
2. King Kong (1933)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
3. Captains Courageous (1937)
USA, Adventure
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew
4. The Sea Hawk (1940)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall
6. Captain Blood (1935)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
7. Lost Horizon (1937)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
USA, Family / Fantasy
Directed by: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Norman Taurog, H.C. Potter
Cast: Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis
10. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William Keighley, Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
11. Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Adventure
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Vlasta Burian, Martin Frič
12. Jánošík (1935)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Paľo Bielik, Zlata Hajdúková
13. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
14. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel
Cast: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray
15. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
16. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
17. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Cast: Matahi, Anne Chevalier
18. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
UK / USA, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Tim Whelan, Michael Powell
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu
19. The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes
20. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
23. North West Mounted Police (1940)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll
24. The Crusades (1935)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon
25. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
USA, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett
26. Emil and the Detectives (1931)
German Empire, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Gerhard Lamprecht
Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack
27. The Rains Came (1939)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power
28. Durch die Wüste (1935)
German Empire, Adventure
Directed by: J.A. Hübler-Kahla
Cast: Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt
29. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen
30. The Mountain Calls (1938)
German Empire, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Luis Trenker
Cast: Luis Trenker, Ernst Legal
31. Gulliver's Travels (1939)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel
Cast: Lanny Ross, Jack Mercer
32. Boom Town (1940)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Jack Conway
Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy
33. The Four Feathers (1939)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
Cast: John Clements, Ralph Richardson
34. The Call of the Wild (1935)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young
35. Beau Geste (1939)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland
36. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
37. Barbary Coast (1935)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler, Howard Hawks
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson
38. The Black Cat (1934)
USA, Horror / Crime
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
39. Anthony Adverse (1936)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland
40. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Cromwell
Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll
41. Deti kapitana Granta (1936)
Soviet Union, Adventure
Directed by: Vladimir Vajnštok, David Gutman
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Yakov Segel
43. The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Keighley, William Dieterle
Cast: Robert J. Mauch, Billy Mauch
44. Shanghai Express (1932)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook
45. The Phantom Creeps (1939)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Saul A. Goodkind, Ford Beebe
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent
46. Řeka (1933)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Poetic
Directed by: Josef Rovenský
Cast: Jarmila Beránková, Václav Jalovec
47. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne
48. Fire Over England (1937)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: William K. Howard
Cast: Flora Robson, Raymond Massey
49. Dark Command (1940)
USA, Romance / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne
50. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley
51. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
52. She (1935)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden
Cast: Randolph Scott, Helen Mack
53. The General Died at Dawn (1936)
USA, Adventure / Film-Noir
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll
54. David Copperfield (1935)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan
55. Northwest Passage (1940)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke, King Vidor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young
56. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone
57. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes
58. Night Train to Munich (1940)
UK, Thriller / War
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison
59. The Lost Patrol (1934)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff
60. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
UK, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Harold Young
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon
61. One Million B.C. (1940)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Hal Roach, D.W. Griffith
Cast: Victor Mature, Carole Landis
62. Three Faces West (1940)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie
63. Buck Rogers (1939)
USA, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore
65. Jamaica Inn (1939)
UK, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara
66. Gunga Din (1939)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen
67. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Cast: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye
69. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran
70. Beleet parus odinokiy (1937)
Soviet Union, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Vladimir Legoshin
Cast: Ivan Pelttser, Daniil Sagal
71. Treasure Island (1934)
USA, Adventure
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper
72. The Son of Kong (1933)
USA, Horror / Action
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack
73. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Archie Mayo, John Ford
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie
74. The New Gulliver (1935)
Soviet Union, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Aleksandr Ptushko
Cast: Владимир Константинов
77. Zatykač Z - 48 (1933)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Friedrich Fehér, Jan Sviták
Cast: Josef Rovenský, Jan Fehér-Weiss
79. Vzdušné torpédo 48 (1936)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Antonín Novotný
80. The Woman in White is Lost (1937)
Czechoslovakia, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Miloš Wasserbauer
Cast: Jindřich Plachta, Josef Skřivan