Arizona's Official Web Site Arizona Secretary of State Agency Website
 skip navigation Contact Us  |  Hours & Locations  |  Site Map  |  Text Size: A A A

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State


Skip Navigation LinksHome > Braille and Talking Book Library > What's Available > Movies > DVDs > Adventure

Adventure DVDs



Bird of Paradise -- DVD16
On a voyage through the South Seas, a young American (Joel McCrea) falls in love with an island princess (Delores Del Rio). The two elope to their own special paradise and live happily - until the island's volcano erupts and the princess's people come for her, needing a sacrifice to appease their angry gods. Thirty good love scenes, shark attack, giant whirlpool, exotic dancing and a volcano - this movie has it all! 1932


Daniel Boone -- DVD5
In 1775, frontiersman Daniel Boone leads a company of settlers from Virginia into the wilderness called Kentucky to start a new colony. Their survival is threatened by legal chicanery and by a sadistic renegade who incites his native followers against them. George O'Brien and John Carradine star in this colonial frontier adventure. 1936


Great Adventure -- DVD35
During the Gold Rush, two spunky kids and their courageous dog set out to liberate Dawson City from the grasp of a charming but unscrupulous saloon owner. Jack Palance and Joan Collins star in this sequel to The Call of the Wild. 1976


High Risk -- DVD48
After John Stone (James Brolin) and three pals steal $5,000,000 from a South American cocaine czar (James Coburn), they have to outwit their vengeful victim and his army, plus a gang of cutthroat banditos led by a wily chief (Anthony Quinn), in order to escape with their lives and the loot. It's a long way home. 1981


Jamaica Inn -- DVD49
In the early 1880s, on the remote coast of Cornwall, destiny leads a lovely young woman seeking refuge to a gang of cutthroats who lure ships to their death and steal their cargo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara. A murky melodrama - the cast makes this movie! 1939


Lawless Frontier / Hell Town -- DVD57
AA double-bill of vintage John Wayne Westerns. In the first, with help from a grizzled old miner and his lovely granddaughter, young Wayne seeks the outlaw who killed his father. In the second, he signs on as the ramrod for a cattle drive and runs into rustlers on the trail and a rigged card game at the end of it. 1934


Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island -- DVD234
Trailing treachery, mutiny and murder in their wake, swashbuckling freebooters swarm across the Spanish main with one dream in common: to find the fabled treasure hoard amassed by the infamous Captain Flint, and still guarded by the bones of the men who helped him bury it. 1954.


Most Dangerous Game -- DVD200
Big game hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on a tropical island and faces a deadly challenge. The owner of the island is an avid hunter and now tracks human prey. Stars Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks. 1932.

 

 

top of page

Updated:  05/23/2007