Best adventure films 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best adventure films 1951 – 1960
1. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen
2. Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Czechoslovakia, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Karel Zeman
Cast: Vladimír Bejval, Petr Herrmann
3. Invention for Destruction (1958)
Czechoslovakia, Sci-fi / Adventure
Directed by: Karel Zeman
Cast: Lubor Tokoš, Arnošt Navrátil
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
UK / USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness
5. Ben-Hur (1959)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins
6. North by Northwest (1959)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
7. The Wages of Fear (1953)
France / Italy, Thriller / Adventure
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
8. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
9. The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Vernay
Cast: Jean Marais, Lia Amanda
10. The African Queen (1951)
UK / USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
11. Fearless Little Soldier (1952)
Italy / France, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Christian-Jaque
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida
12. Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Japan, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
13. The Ten Commandments (1956)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner
14. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton
15. Moby Dick (1956)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart
16. The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: André Hunebelle
Cast: Jean Marais, Bourvil
17. Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
Japan, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
18. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
Cast: Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn
19. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day
20. Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Japan, Historical / Adventure
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni
22. Forbidden Planet (1956)
USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
23. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
UK / USA, War / Action
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo
24. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
UK / USA, Family / Fantasy
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant
25. The Court Jester (1955)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Cast: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns
26. The Searchers (1956)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter
27. Priklyucheniya Buratino (1959)
Soviet Union, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Иван Иванов-Вано, Dmitriy Babichenko
28. The Enemy Below (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens
29. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Cantinflas, David Niven
30. Bend of the River (1952)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy
31. Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Mexico, Adventure
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández
32. Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1952)
USA / UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
33. The Time Machine (1960)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: George Pal
Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young
34. Smugglers of Death (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Radovan Lukavský, Jiří Vala
35. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Henry Levin
Cast: Pat Boone, James Mason
36. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams
37. Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
UK, Adventure / War
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms
38. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver
39. The Vikings (1958)
USA / West Germany, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis
40. The Big Sky (1952)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin
43. Only the Valiant (1951)
USA, Adventure / Western
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton
44. Against All Flags (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: George Sherman
Cast: Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara
46. Scaramouche (1952)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: George Sidney
Cast: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker
47. Blood Alley (1955)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: John Wayne, William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
48. North West Frontier (1959)
UK, Adventure
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall
49. Caravana de esclavos (1958)
Spain / West Germany, Adventure
Directed by: Georg Marischka, Ramón Torrado
Cast: Viktor Staal, Georg Thomalla
50. 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1958)
Mexico, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Cast: María Duval, Enrique Aguilar
51. Secret Scrolls (1957)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
52. O'Rourke of the Royal Mounted (1954)
USA, Adventure / Western
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters
53. Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie
54. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
USA, Adventure / Family
Directed by: Jack Sher
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow
55. The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle
56. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
UK, Adventure / Music
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmila Tchérina
57. Race for Life (1955)
France / Italy, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Christian-Jaque
Cast: André Valmy, Jean Gaven
58. Moonfleet (1955)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders
59. Nine Lives (1957)
Norway, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arne Skouen
Cast: Jack Fjeldstad, Alf Malland
60. The Sabre and the Arrow (1953)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale
61. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat
63. En las ruinas de Babilonia (1959)
Spain / West Germany, Adventure
Directed by: Hanns Wiedmann, Ramón Torrado
Cast: Helmuth Schneider, Georg Thomalla
64. Helen of Troy (1956)
USA / Italy, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas
65. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Janet Munro, Sean Connery
66. Island in the Sky (1953)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan
67. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Tony Randall, Archie Moore
68. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
UK, Adventure
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing
69. La tempesta (1958)
Italy / France, Adventure
Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
Cast: Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin
70. The Purple Plain (1954)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Robert Parrish
Cast: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than
71. Plymouth Adventure (1952)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney
72. Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Cy Endfield
Cast: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart
74. Thunder Bay (1953)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Joanne Dru
75. Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1958)
West Germany, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Kurt Hoffmann
Cast: Liselotte Pulver, Carlos Thompson
76. The Gun Runners (1958)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert
77. Drum Beat (1954)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton
79. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
USA, Family / Adventure
Directed by: Francis D. Lyon
Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter
80. Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker
81. Hannibal (1959)
Italy, Historical / Biography
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Cast: Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti
82. Captain Lightfoot (1955)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush
84. Yagyu Secret Scrolls, part II (1958)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
85. Underwater! (1955)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland
86. The Naked Jungle (1954)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Cast: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker
87. Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: John Guillermin
Cast: Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle
88. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
UK, Adventure
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey
89. The World in His Arms (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth
90. Morgan the Pirate (1960)
France / Italy, Adventure
Directed by: Primo Zeglio, André De Toth
Cast: Steve Reeves, Valérie Lagrange
91. Captain Blood (1960)
France / Italy, Historical / Adventure
Directed by: André Hunebelle
Cast: Jean Marais, Bourvil
92. Elephant Walk (1954)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews
93. Blowing Wild (1953)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
94. Anne of the Indies (1951)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
95. Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
USA, Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell
96. La Venere dei pirati (1960)
Italy / West Germany, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: Mario Costa
Cast: Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel
97. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
USA, Adventure / War
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, William Holden
98. Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
USA, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: William Castle
Cast: Lex Barker, Patricia Medina
99. Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960)
Italy, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Giorgio Simonelli
Cast: Lex Barker, Walter Barnes
100. Seminole (1953)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Budd Boetticher
Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale