Best Adventure movies of 1970s

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : John Boorman,

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Actors : Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, Warren Mitchell, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Sam J. Jones,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Actors : Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Dooley, Ray Walston,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The adventures of the sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.

Actors : Sean Connery, Alan Webb, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Crichton,

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Roy Scheider, Francisco Rabal, Amidou,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.

Actors : Éva Gábor, Sterling Holloway, Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Wolfgang Reitherman,

With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Éva Gábor, Bob Newhart, Joe Flynn,

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.

Actors : John Hurt, Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Sam Jaffe,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain.

Actors : Sean Connery, Saeed Jaffrey, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : John Huston,

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Actors : John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Michael Graham Cox,
Directors : Martin Rosen,

A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, John Meillon, Luc Roeg,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Two young siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Australian boy on "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters,

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood, Carroll O'Connor, Don Rickles,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Perry Pirkanen, Francesca Ciardi, Robert Kerman,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Actors : John Hurt, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Waterston, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.