List of adventure films of the 1950s

A list of adventure films released in the 1950s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
1950
The Elusive Pimpernel	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins		[1]
The Flame and the Arrow	Jacques Tourneur	Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas		Fantasy adventure[2]
Fortunes of Captain Blood	Gordon M. Douglas	Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready		[3]
Kim	Victor Saville	Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell and Paul Lukas		[4]
King Solomon's Mines	Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton	Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson		Romantic adventure[5]
Treasure Island	Byron Haskin			Sea adventure[6]
1951
The African Queen	John Huston	Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley		[7]
Captain Horatio Hornblower	Raoul Walsh	Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty		[8]
Dear Caroline	Richard Pottier	Martine Carol, Marie Déa, Alfred Adam		[9]
Mask of the Avenger	Phil Karlson	John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance		[10]
1952
Against All Flags	George Sherman	Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn		Sea adventure[11]
Blackbeard the Pirate	Raoul Walsh	Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix		Sea adventure[12]
Un Caprice de Caroline Cherie	Jean Devaivre	Martine Carol, Jean Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine		Romantic adventure[13]
The Crimson Pirate	Robert Siodmak	Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat		Adventure comedy[14]
Fanfan la Tulipe	Christian-Jaque	Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand		Romantic adventure[15]
The Golden Coach	Jean Renoir	Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Riccardo Rioli		Romantic adventure[16]
Ivanhoe	Richard Thorpe	Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine		Romantic adventure[17]
King of the Khyber Rifles	Henry King	Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie		Romantic adventure[18]
The Prisoner of Zenda	Richard Thorpe	Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason		Romantic adventure[19]
The Three Musketeers	André Hunebelle	Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson		[20]
Scaramouche	George Sidney	Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh		[21]
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men	Ken Annakin	Richard Todd, Peter Finch		[22]
1953
Beat the Devil	John Huston	Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida		Adventure comedy[23]
Cat Women of the Moon	Arthur D. Hilton	Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor		Space adventure[24]
Jungle Drums of Africa	Fred C. Brannon	Don Blackman, John Cason		[25]
Knights of the Round Table	Richard Thorpe	Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer		Romantic adventure[26]
Little Fugitive	Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin	Ricky Brewster, Richie Andrusco, Winifred Cushing		Adventure drama[27]
Mogambo	John Ford	Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly		[28]
Plunder of the Sun	John Farrow	Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina		Adventure drama[29]
Sadko	Alexander Ptushko	Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Mikhail Troyanovsky		[30]
The Three Musketeers	André Hunebelle	Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson		[31]
The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck		Adventure drama[32]
1954
The Adventures of Hajji Baba	Don Weis	John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rosemarie Bowe		Romantic adventure[33]
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	Luis Buñuel	Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba		[34]
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	Jacques Becker	Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Samia Gamal		[35]
The Black Shield of Falworth	Rudolph Maté	Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar		Romantic adventure[36]
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl	Lew Landers	Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor		Romantic adventure[37]
Long John Silver	Byron Haskin	Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist		Family-oriented adventure[38]
The Naked Jungle	Byron Haskin	Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer		Adventure drama[39]
Secret of the Incas	Jerry Hopper	Charlton Heston, Yma Sumac, Robert Young		Adventure, treasure hunt, drama[40]
Valley of the Kings	Robert Pirosh	Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker		Adventure, treasure hunt, drama[41]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Richard Fleischer	Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre		Adventure, science fiction[42]
1955
African Manhunt	Seymour Friedman	Ray Bennett		[43]
Captain Lightfoot	Douglas Sirk	Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow		Romantic adventure[44]
Le Fils de Caroline Cherie		Magali Noël, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Pascal		Romantic adventure[45]
Moonfleet	Fritz Lang	Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood		[46]
Ulysses	Mario Camerini	Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn		Fantasy adventure[47]
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days	Michael Anderson	David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine		Romantic adventure, adventure comedy[48]
Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle	Gérard Philipe, Joris Ivens	Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Jean Carmet		[49]
Congo Crossing	Joseph Pevney	George Nader, Virginia Mayo, Peter Lorre		Adventure drama[50]
The Court Jester	Melvin Frank, Norman Panama	Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone		Adventure comedy[51]
Death in the Garden	Luis Buñuel	Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal		Adventure drama[52]
Forbidden Planet	Fred Wilcox	Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen		Space adventure[53]
The Great Locomotive Chase	Francis D. Lyon	Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York		[54]
Ilya Muromets	Alexander Ptushko	Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva		Fantasy adventure[55]
The Mountain	Edward Dmytryk	Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor		[56]
1957
Legend of the Lost	Henry Hathaway	John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi		Adventure drama[57]
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent	Roger Corman	Lynn Bernay, Susan Cabot, Gary Conway		[58]
1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad	Nathan H. Juran	Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher		Fantasy adventure[59]
The Hidden Fortress	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara		[60]
Missile to the Moon	Richard E. Cunha	Nina Bara, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook		Space adventure[61]
Queen of Outer Space	Edward Bernds	Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Laurie Mitchell		Space adventure[62]
La Tempesta	Alberto Lattuada	Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Silvana Mangano		Romantic adventure[63]
1959
The Angry Red Planet	Ib Melchior	Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden		Space adventure[64]
Ferry to Hong Kong	Lewis Gilbert	Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms		Sea adventure[65]
The Indian Tomb	Fritz Lang	Debra Paget, Paul Christian, Paul Hubschmid		Romantic adventure[66]
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Henry Levin	James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl		Adventure, fantasy[67]
Kapitanskaya Dochka	Vladimir Kaplunovsky	Oleg Strizhenov, Sergei Lukyanov, Iya Arepina		Romantic adventure[68]
Prisonniers De La Brousse	Willy Rozier	Georges Marchal, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Nadine Alari		[69]
The Tiger of Eschnapur	Fritz Lang	Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm		Adventure drama[70]
Third Man on the Mountain	Ken Annakin	Michael Rennie, Janet Munro, James Donald		Family-oriented adventure[71]
Watusi	Kurt Neumann	George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar		[72]

See also

• 1950 in film

References

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57. Erickson, Hal. "Overview: Legend of the Lost". Allmovie. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
58. "Overview: The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent". Allmovie. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
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