Best Action movies of 1961

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, David Niven,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Barbara Eden, Joan Fontaine, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lorre,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, US Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, John Wayne,

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Actors : Bent Mejding, Povl Wøldike, Asbjørn Andersen, Ann Smyrner,
Directors : Sidney W. Pink,

After copper miners discover part of the frozen tail of a prehistoric monster in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Christopher Rhodes, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester, Bill Travers,
Directors : Eugène Lourié,

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Actors : Francis X. Bushman, Anthony Dexter, Coleen Gray, Dean Fredericks,
Directors : William Marshall,

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Actors : Aleksei Gribov, Margarita Nazarova, Ivan Dmitriev, Evgeniy Leonov,
Directors : Vladimir Fetin,

A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Marne Maitland, Geoffrey Toone, Yvonne Monlaur,
Directors : Anthony Bushell,

In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Alice Kessler, George Ardisson, Ellen Kessler,
Directors : Mario Bava,

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks ...

Actors : Geneviève Grad, Gérard Barray, Jean Marais, Riccardo Garrone,
Directors : Pierre Gaspard-Huit,

The ruined Baron Philippe de Sigognac, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors. Attracted by Isabelle, and by the enthusiasm of his acting companions, he joins the troupe.

Actors : Virna Lisi, Franco Volpi, Gordon Scott, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Azra, Nasir Khan, Vyjayanthimala,
Directors : Nitin Bose,

Widowed Govindi lives a poor lifestyle in Haripur along with two sons, Gungaram and Jumna. While Jumna is studious, Gungaram is the opposite, but has a good heart and decides to use his ...

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Yvonne Furneaux, Louis Jourdan, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Claude Autant-Lara,

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ...

Actors : Ed Fury, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orfei, Cristina Gaioni,
Directors : Carlo Campogalliani,

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to ...

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Giacomo Furia,
Directors : Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean Marais, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Hanin,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not ...

Actors : Michael Forest, Walter Maslow, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Actors : Orson Welles, Liana Orfei, Victor Mature, Arnoldo Foà,

Burundai, comandante dei Tartari, prende il posto del fratello Togrul, ucciso durante la battaglia contro gli Slavi, a causa del rifiuto del comandante vichingo Oleg di unirsi a loro. Dopo ...