Best Adventure movies of 1961

Actors : Lil Dagover, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Joachim Fuchsberger,

(1961)Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum. A girl is almost murdered, but no explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered and linked to the case...

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 : 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 : David Janssen, Frank Gorshin, 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 : Giorgia Moll, Steve Reeves, Edy Vessel, 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 : Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.

Actors : Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassins in London.

Actors : Roger Moore, Robert Middleton, Clint Walker, Letícia Román,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In Seven Saints, Utah, McCracken's outlaw gang is vying for fur trappers Jim Rainbolt and Shaun Garrett's gold nugget fortune that also catches the eye of Mexican bandit Gondora and his caballeros.

Actors : Roger Moore, Giorgia Moll, Mylène Demongeot, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Richard Pottier,

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of ...

Actors : Cesare Danova, Joan Staley, Sean McClory, Danielle De Metz,
Directors : Edward Bernds,

In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.

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

Actors : Leonora Ruffo, Gordon Scott, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale,

Goliath must save the kidnapped women of his village from an evil zombie leader who needs their blood to feed his soldiers.

Actors : Paula Raymond, Craig Hill, Gregory Morton, Dayton Lummis,
Directors : Reginald Le Borg,

A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Dante DiPaolo,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Actors : Uttam Kumar, Arundhati Devi, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Soumitra Chatterjee,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

A person comes to meet with Gauri Shankar Roy (Uttam Kumar) living in Kolkata. He introduces himself as a 'fauji Sardar' of Jhind, Jhind being a small kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. He says ...

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Charles Regnier,

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and...

Actors : James Lanphier, Marshall Thompson, Douglas Kennedy, Mala Powers,
Directors : Nathan Juran,

A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva, Jack Palance,

Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. ...

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 ...