Best Adventure 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 : Martha Wentworth, J. Pat O'Malley, Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson,

When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Actors : Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

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 : Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

Actors : Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood, Gary Merrill, Michael Craig,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Actors : Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.

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 : Georges Marchal, Lea Massari, Conrado San Martín, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

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 : Leonora Ruffo, Christopher Lee, George Ardisson, Reg Park,

Hercules must journey in Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.

Actors : William Smith, Sal Ponti, John Dall, Joyce Taylor,
Directors : George Pal,

A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer...

Actors : Georges Wilson, Milo, Georges Loriot, Jean-Pierre Talbot,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Vierne,

Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.

Actors : Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Reg Park,
Directors : Vittorio Cottafavi,

Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.

Actors : Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Edson Stroll, Carol Heiss,

An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.

Actors : Giorgia Moll, Edy Vessel, Steve Reeves, Arturo Dominici,

In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad.

Actors : Frank Gorshin, David Janssen, Joel Marston, Joyce Taylor,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

In the 1960s Oregon, two sheriff deputies arrest three teenagers for robbery but are overpowered and taken hostage while forest fires rage all around them.

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.