Genre

Adventure

6 films · 1916–1952

Journeys, jungles and treasure hunts.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1916 · 99 min · Adventure · United States

Directed by Stuart Paton

Starring Allen Holubar, Jane Gail, Howard Crampton

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was not known in the silent era as premier producer of motion pictures. Yet, in 1916 they produced a film that could not be made effectively without expensive special effects and special photography. The novel had previously been made as short films in 1907 by Georges Méliès and in 1913 by French company ÃÂclair.) Marshalling the expertise underwater ex

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Jungle Book

1942 · 105 min · Adventure · United Kingdom

Directed by Zoltan Korda

Starring Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen

Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion. N

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