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A list of adventure films released in the 1940s.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Subgenre/Notes
|
| 1940
|
| Drums of the Desert |
George Waggner |
Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn |
 |
Romantic adventure[1]
|
| Drums of fu manchu |
William Witney |
Henry Brandon, William Royle, Olaf Hytten, Luana Walters |
|
[2]
|
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe |
Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor |
Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Roland Drew |
|
[3]
|
| Green Hell |
James Whale |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, George Sanders |
|
Adventure drama[4]
|
| The Sea Hawk |
Michael Curtiz |
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains |
|
Sea adventure[5]
|
| The Thief of Bagdad |
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan |
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram |
 |
Fantasy adventure[6]
|
| 1941
|
| The Corsican Brothers |
Gregory Ratoff |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ruth Warwick |
|
[7]
|
| Jungle Girl |
John English, William Witney |
Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr |
|
[8]
|
| Road to Zanzibar |
Victor Schertzinger |
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope |
|
Adventure comedy[9]
|
| 1942
|
| Arabian Nights |
John Rawlins |
Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson |
|
Romantic adventure[10]
|
| The Black Swan |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders |
|
[11]
|
| Reap the Wild Wind |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward |
|
Romantic adventure[12]
|
| Road to Morocco |
David Butler |
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour |
|
Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[13]
|
| The Spoilers |
Ray Enright |
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne |
|
Romantic adventure[14]
|
| 1943
|
| Sahara |
Zoltan Korda |
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram |
|
War adventure[15]
|
| White Savage |
Arthur Lubin |
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Sidney Toler |
|
[16]
|
| 1944
|
| Cobra Woman |
Robert Siodmak |
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu |
|
[17]
|
| Frenchman's Creek |
Mitchell Leisen |
Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone |
|
Romantic adventure[18]
|
| Lifeboat |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak |
|
Sea adventure, adventure drama[19]
|
| The Tiger Woman |
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell |
Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis |
|
[20]
|
| The Princess and the Pirate |
David Butler |
Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Victor McLaglen, Walter Slezak, Walter Brennan |
|
Adventure comedy[21]
|
| 1945
|
| Captain Kidd |
Rowland V. Lee |
Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland |
|
Pirate adventure
|
| A Thousand and One Nights |
Alfred E. Green |
Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens |
|
Fantasy adventure
|
| The Spanish Main |
Frank Borzage |
Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak |
|
Pirate adventure
|
| 1946
|
| Road to Utopia |
Hal Walker |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby |
|
Adventure comedy
|
| 1947
|
| Road to Rio |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby |
|
Adventure comedy
|
| Sinbad the Sailor |
Richard Wallace |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn |
|
Action adventure
|
| 1948
|
| Adventures of Don Juan |
Vincent Sherman |
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas |
|
Swashbuckler
|
| Unknown Island |
Jack Bernhard |
Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning |
|
|
–
|
Man-Eater of Kumaon |
Byron Haskin |
Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page, Morris Carnovsky |
|
Jungle adventure
|
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
John Huston |
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt |
|
Adventure drama
|
| Wake of the Red Witch |
John Farrow, Edward Ludwig |
John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young |
|
Romantic adventure
|
| 1949
|
| Bagdad |
Charles Lamont |
Maureen O'Hara, Paul Hubschmid, Vincent Price |
|
Desert adventure
|
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Tay Garnett |
Bing Crosby |
|
Fantasy adventure
|
| The Blue Lagoon |
Frank Launder |
Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks |
|
Romantic adventure
|
| Mighty Joe Young |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh |
|
Jungle adventure
|
| Rope of Sand |
William Dieterle |
Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre |
|
Desert adventure
|
Notes
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Drums of the Desert". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:Drums of fu manchu". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Green Hell". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder Bruce. "Overview:The Sea Hawk". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:The Thief of Bagdad". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Corsican Brothers". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:Jungle Girl". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Zanzibar". Allmovie. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Arabian Nights". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Black Swan". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Reap the Wild Wind". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:Road to Morocco". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Spoilers". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Williams, Karl. "Overview:Sahara". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Overview:White Savage". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Overview:Cobra Woman". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Frenchman's Creek". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Overview:Lifeboat". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview:The Tiger Woman". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Overview:The Princess and the Pirate". Allmovie. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
