Adventure
Atlantic Flight (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Aviation Adventure Classic
On May 14, 1937, Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie landed back in New York, having just completed the first commercial round-trip transatlantic flight in history — a mission bankrolled by William Randolph Hearst specifically to smuggle exclusive photographs of the…
Barefoot Boy (1938) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Children’s Adventure Classic
Before he ever sat in a director's chair, Karl Brown spent his teenage years as Billy Bitzer's camera assistant on D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) — hauling equipment, loading film, and operating a second…
Paradise Isle (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free South Seas Adventure Classic
Dorothy Davenport produced Paradise Isle under the screen credit "Dorothy Reid" — a name that carried real weight in 1937, and real tragedy behind it. She'd been married to Wallace Reid, one of the biggest stars of the silent era,…
Queen of the Amazons (1946) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Jungle Adventure Classic
The woman playing Jean Preston in this poverty row jungle picture is, at the time of filming, one year away from Broadway immortality. Patricia Morison would originate the lead in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate in 1948 — the role…
Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Sword and Sandal Classic
Peter Lupus was twenty-eight, credited under the name Rock Stevens, and had not yet been cast in Mission: Impossible — that was still three years away. In 1964 he was a bodybuilder with a film career being built one Italian…
Bird of Paradise (1932) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Classic Romance Film
David O. Selznick had not read the play. King Vidor had — and told Selznick it would make a terrible film. Selznick was not interested in this assessment. He told Vidor: "Just give me three wonderful love scenes. I don't…
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Adventure Classic
one day they regrouped and pretty much right away shot a second picture on the same island using some of the same crew. Thirteen days of filming, a $50,000 budget. It features two brothers, one of them a fugitive from…