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Blonde Cometis a 1941 racing movie directed byWilliam Beaudineand starringVirginia Valeas a female racing driver who competes all over Europe then returns to America where she finds romance with a male driver (Robert Kent) against whom she races. Race driverBarney Oldfieldplays himself in a large role billed third under Vale and Kent. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Big Wheelis a 1949 Americandramasport filmdirected byEdward LudwigstarringMickey Rooney,Thomas Mitchell,Mary HatcherandMichael O'Shea. It includes the final screen appearance ofHattie McDaniel. This film is now in thepublic domain. Plot: Billy Coy (Mickey Rooney) arrives in the town of Carrell,Californiaand offers himself as a mechanic for Arthur "Red" Stanley (Thomas Mitchell) at his garage. Red turns down Billy initially, but after seeing a photo of his father, "Cannonball" Coy, a famous driver, Red scares up a job for Billy. Billy's father died in an accident at theIndianapolis 500several years previously. Red was Cannonball's mechanic, riding with him the day he died in the north turn of the Indianapolis motor speedway. Red inquires after "her"; he still carries a torch for Mary (Spring Byington), Cannonball's widow and Billy's mother. At the garage, Billy befriends a tomboy, Louise Riley (Mary Hatcher), whose father owns the nearest racetrack. Billy gets a chance to prove his skills as a driver in a qualifying race, but he is too arrogant to follow his employer's advice and is unsuccessful. He asks Louise to meet on Saturday night at the track. Thinking it is a date, Louise does the unheard of for her—she buys a dress and heels (in which she is unskilled at walking), assisted by her family's maid (Hattie McDaniel). As it turns out, Billy needed her help with changing some carburetors, much to Louise's disappointment. She gamely wobbles on high heels with him to the garage, buoyed by her love of cars and affection for Billy. Billy gets another chance to drive for another car owner, Deacon Jones. The car is green and referred to as a "Hoodoo Wagon" due to a racing superstition that green cars are unlucky. A helpful gadfly in the pits reminds Billy this is the same color as the car his father drove when he crashed and burned. Billy drives but is pushed off the track by driver Vic Sullivan (Michael O'Shea). Billy survives the crash but fails to qualify. He vents his frustration at the dirty trick by punching Vic. Distracted by the spectacle, another driver injures his hand by absentmindedly placing it on the searing exhaust pipe of his car in which he's sitting; Billy is offered the opportunity to drive in the incapacitated man's stead. Billy wins the next race and continues driving for Jones. Together with his team's other driver, Happy Lee (Steve Brodie), they make headlines with their success. Billy gets arrested for speeding after he has too much to drink. Red bails him out, and contrary to Red's advice, Billy goes on to race that same night. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

White Pongo, also known asAdventure Unlimitedin the United Kingdom, is a 1945 American film directed bySam Newfieldreleased byProducers Releasing Corporation. Plot: In the jungles of theBelgian Congo, a group of natives are dancing around a great fire with a human sacrifice named Gunderson, They are attacked by analbinogorillacalled the White Pongo. During the attack an elderly scientist who lives with the tribe frees Gunderson and gives him his deceased colleague's diary that contains his findings on the white gorilla. Gunderson makes it through the jungle and arrives in a nearby settlement in a feverish state. The diary has seemed to prove that the white gorilla of myth exists and that local anthropologists believe it is the evolutionarymissing link. Asafariis formed with a group of individuals, several of whom have their own nefarious reasons for going, but one is an undercoverRhodesianSecret Serviceman. The group battle the jungle and one another. In the climax, the White Pongo, who has been stalking the group, kidnaps one of the safari members (the sole female, of course) and duels with a normal-colored gorilla. The rest of the safari hear the battle and rescue their comrade. The White Pongo comes out victorious over his rival, but is wounded by the safari and taken with them to the boat back to London. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Queen of the Amazonsis a 1946adventure filmproduced and directed byEdward Finneyand featuringRobert Lowery,Patricia MorisonandJ. Edward Bromberg. Plot: Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on asafariand didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), who also narrates the film, together with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays. Although the clerk acts like he knows nothing of Jones, he immediately makes a suspicious phone call when the group leaves the lobby. While Jean unpacks in her room, a native woman named Tondra (Vida Aldana), who spied on the group in the hotel lobby earlier, knocks on the door. She tells Jean that her husband, Moya (Hassam Kayyam), spoke to her of a safari that suffered a tiger attack. Jean asks Tondra to speak to her husband. Although apprehensive to get her husband at first, she quickly fetches her husband when Jean greases her palm. Tondra returns with Moya, who recognizes Jones from a photo of Jean’s. He tells Jean that Jones traveled not with the doomed safari but with a group of ivory hunters that went to Africa. Before Moya can say more, someone shoots him with a pistol through Jean’s room window. The shooting upsets the unstable locals and the group leaves for Africa. They take a boat deep into the African jungle where they see abundant wildlife. Jean must convince Gary Lambert (Robert Lowery), who hates taking women on safaris, to be their guide. She knocks his socks off with her shooting skills with a gun. They also pick up famed safari cook, Gabby (J. Edward Bromberg), who likes to recite the poemThree Fishersto his pet monkey and tells stories of escaping his wife with belligerent verbosity. The District Commissioner of the area tells Lambert that Jones was on a mission to bust Ivory poachers and wants Lambert to do the same, which Lambert readily agrees. The rescue mission meets with turmoil and death from an unknown saboteur among their ranks. A native man tells the group rumors of a group of white she-devils in the jungle that make their native guides skittish. The women came from a lifeboat from a shipwreck many years ago. When Greg is found, it is revealed he fell for the queen, Zita (Amira Moustafa). Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Nabongais a 1944PRCfilm starringBuster CrabbeandJulie London(in her film debut). It was retitledJungle Womanin theBritish Empire. Plot: T. F. Stockwell (Herbert Rawlinson) steals the money and jewelry contents of safe deposit boxes of theCairobank in which he works. After fleeing south in a private plane with his young daughter Doreen (Jackie Newfield) and the pilot, they're brought down in the jungle during a storm. The three survive the crash but Stockwell murders the pilot when he sees the stolen loot. Whilst exploring the surroundings, Doreen finds a gorilla (Ray Corrigan) wounded and left for dead by members of asafari. Years pass when Ray Gorman (Buster Crabbe) comes to the area on the fringes of the jungle where the plane crashed. Bar owner Carl Hurst (Barton MacLane) and his female associate Marie (Fifi D'Orsay) spy on Gorman to see what he's up to. Gorman's father was head of the bank that Stockwell worked for and robbed; when Gorman's father was blamed for the theft he committed suicide. Gorman is out to recover the loot from the plane crash to clear his father's name. When Gorman saves Hurst's servant Tobo (Prince Modupe) from being murdered by another African (Fred Toones), Tobo confides in Gorman that there is a white witch in the jungle who legend has it came from the sky. Gorman realises that this could be a reference to Stockwell's plane crash and disappearance. Tobo offers to lead Gorman to the area whilst Hurst and Marie secretly follow. The "white witch" is the grown up Doreen (Julie London) living with her gorilla named Samson who protects her; her father having long ago disappeared in the jungle. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Jungle Brideis a 1933 Americanpre-Codefilm directed byHarry O. HoytandAlbert H. Kelley. Plot: Doris Evans suspects that an actor has committed murder, so she and her fiancé follow him aboard a ship. Following a storm, they end up shipwrecked on a tropical island with some of the other castaways. They try to cooperate on the island, even as tensions flare. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Jungle Bookis a 1942independentTechnicoloraction-adventure filmby the Korda brothers, loosely adapted fromRudyard Kipling'sThe Jungle Book(1894). The story centers onMowgli, a feral young man who is kidnapped by villagers who are cruel to the jungle animals as they attempt to steal a dead king's cursed treasure. The film was directed byZoltán Kordaand produced by his brotherAlexander, with theart directiondone by their younger brotherVincent. The screenplay was written byLaurence Stallings. The film starsSabuas Mowgli. The cinematography was byLee GarmesandW. Howard Greeneand the music was byMiklós Rózsa. Because ofWorld War II, the Korda brothers had moved their filmmaking to Hollywood in 1940, andJungle Bookis one of the films they produced during that Hollywood period.]The film was a commercial success at the box office. Plot: In anIndianvillage,Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting Britishmemsahibto tell a story of his youth. As a younger man, he recalls his village being attacked byShere Khantherogue tiger. The attack leads to the death of a man and the loss of the man's child. The child is adopted bygrey wolvesin the jungle and grows to be the wild youthMowgli. Twelve years after, Mowgli is captured by the villagers and taken in by his motherMessua, despite Buldeo'sprejudiceon him for being from the jungle. He learns to speak and tries to imitate the ways of humans, as well as becomes friendly with Buldeo's daughter, Mahala. When Mowgli and Mahala explore the jungle, they discover a hidden chamber in a ruined palace, containing fabulous wealth. Warned by an agedcobrathat the wealth brings death, they leave, but Mahala takes one coin as a memento. When Buldeo sees the coin, he resolves to follow Mowgli to the site of the treasure. Mowgli fights and uses ajambiya knifeto kill Shere Khan, with some last minute help fromKaa, theIndian python. As he is skinning the body, Buldeo arrives. He threatens Mowgli with hishunting rifleto take him to the treasure, but is attacked by Mowgli's friendBagheera, theblack panther. Buldeo becomes convinced that Bagheera is Mowgli himself, shape-shifted into panther form. He tells the villagers that Mowgli is a witch, as is his mother. Mowgli is chained up and threatened with death, but escapes with his mother's help. However, she and another villager who tries to defend her are tied up and themselves threatened withburningfor witchcraft. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Law of the Jungleis a 1942 Americanadventure filmdirected byJean Yarbrough. Plot: A singer, Nona Brooks, is stranded at a hotel in Africa because her passport is missing. It turns out enemy agents, in collaboration with hotel owner Simmons, have stolen her papers, then try to use her for their nefarious schemes. Brooks flees and encounters paleontologist Larry Mason in the jungle. He and his assistant Jefferson Jones give her shelter, then fend off unfriendly natives while Simmons is murdered by the villainous agents. All looks hopeless until the tribal chief turns out to be a reasonable, Oxford-educated man who helps Larry and Nona out of their jam. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Blonde Savageis a 1947 Americanadventure filmdirected bySteve Sekelyand written by Gordon Bache. The film starsLeif Erickson,Gale Sherwood,Veda Ann Borg,Douglass Dumbrille,Frank Jenks, and Matt Willis. It was released on November 22, 1947 byProducers Releasing Corporation. Plot: Explorers Steve Blake and Hoppy Owens are hired to lead an expedition into the deep jungle. Their first day of exploration uncovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman who was raised by the tribe after her parents were mysteriously killed years earlier. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Under the Red Robeis a 1937 British / American film directed byVictor Sjöström. Previously filmed as a1923 silentdirected byAlan Crosland. Before the films a play had been produced on Broadway in 1896-97 starringViola AllenandWilliam Faversham. Plot: The film is based onthe 1894 novelbyStanley J. Weymanand is set during the religious wars of early 17th century France; events in the novel itself means it can be dated to the autumn of 1630. Notorious gambler and dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns to Paris after carrying out a mission for the 'Red Robe' orCardinal Richelieuand finds him concerned by growing opposition from French Protestants orHuguenotsin the south. He also warns de Berault dueling has been outlawed and henceforth punishable by death but Gil promptly disobeys the law and is sentenced to be executed as a result. The Cardinal offers de Berault a pardon if he is able to capture the Protestant Duc de Foix who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil agrees, travels to the duke's home and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and his sister Lady Marguerite immediately suspect he is a spy. Nevertheless, he makes good progress but then falls in love with Marguerite, forcing him to choose between conscience and self-interest. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Timber Queenis a 1944 Americanlumberjackdrama film directed byFrank McDonald. It was Arlen's last film for Pine-Thomas for a number of years untilSpeed to Spare(1948). Plot: Russ Evans gets out of the service and meets Elaine, the widow of Ken, a man he served with. He helps her protect the rights to some timber land that she has inherited. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Swamp Fireis a 1946 Americanadventure filmdirected byWilliam H. Pineand starringJohnny Weissmuller.The film pits two screenTarzansagainst each other in their first film forPine-Thomas Productions. Plot: After World War Two, Johnny Duval returns home to the bayous of Louisiana where he was aU.S. Coast Guardbar pilot. However, after serving in the Coast Guard, Johnny is affected by stress when he lost thedestroyer escortunder his command, blaming himself for the loss of the ship that was torpedoed. Initially Johnny refuses to take up his old piloting duties, offering to work as an ordinary seaman. He is tricked into filling in for a pilot and does an admirable job where he regains his confidence. In the meantime Johnny is distracted from his bride to be Toni Rousseau by the visit of a spoiled rich city girl Janet Hilton whose father P.T. Hilton buys up land in the bayous and posts the areas for no hunting or fishing that has a devastating effect on the local culture. Local hot head and Johnny's rival Mike Kalavich knocks down the Hilton's signs and goes poaching on their land. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Sundownis a 1941 Americanblack-and-whiteWorld War IIfilm starringGene Tierney,Bruce CabotandGeorge Sanders.It was directed byHenry Hathaway, produced by Jack Moss andWalter Wanger, written byCharles G. BoothandBarré Lyndon, and released byUnited Artists. Set inBritish East Africa, the film's adventure story was well received by critics, earning threeAcademy Awardnominations, but it was a failure at the box office. Plot: An aircraft lands in Kenya near Rhino Rock, and Zia (Gene Tierney) disembarks and is met by a caravan she owns. In Manieka,British East Africa, Bill Crawford (Bruce Cabot), District Commissioner, contacts the governor atNairobi, requesting a month-long furlough to study the Senshi, a local tribe. His colleague, Lt. Roddy Turner (Reginald Gardiner), sends a message to the governor to cancel the furlough as the Senshi are becoming hostile. Two aircraft land at Manieka, bringing both rifles and Major Coombes (George Sanders), the Governor's agent. Coombes tells Crawford that he is taking control of the outpost. When he finds Pallini (Joseph Calleia), officially an Italian prisoner of war, but unofficially the chef, Coombes wants Pollini put into restraints. He then asks Crawford why he wants a furlough, saying that someone is smuggling rifles to the Senshi. Dutch engineer Jan Kuypens (Carl Esmond), working with the Italian government, is making a mineral survey of the area. Coombes suggests that Kuypens instead file his report with the British; he agrees. A local trader named Abdi Hammud (Marc Lawrence) sets up an ambush of the British troops, but Crawford and his men are able to stop the attack. Zia, daughter of the late Abu Kalli, who now runs the family network of trading posts in East Africa, arrives at the outpost. Pallini has known Zia for many years, and on Pallini's birthday, the outpost decides to throw him a party. The men make sure they invite Zia, but when she arrives, she must sit at a segregated table because by native custom she is considered a half-breed. Crawford sits with her and discovers that she is African. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Son of Monte Cristois a 1940 Americanblack-and-whiteswashbucklingadventure filmfromUnited Artists, produced byEdward Small, directed byRowland V. Lee, that starsLouis Hayward,Joan Bennett, andGeorge Sanders. The Small production uses the same sets and many of the same cast and production crew as his previous year's production ofThe Man in the Iron Mask.Hayward returned to star in Small'sThe Return of Monte Cristo(1946). The film takes the same name as the unofficial sequel toThe Count of Monte Cristo, namelyThe Son of Monte Cristo, written byJules Lerminain 1881. Using elements from several romantic swashbucklers of the time such asThe Prisoner of ZendaandThe Mark of Zorrothe production also mirrors the situation of Continental Europe in 1939–1940. Plot: In 1865, theproletarianGeneral Gurko Lanen (George Sanders) becomes the behind-the-scenes dictator of theGrand Duchyof Lichtenburg located in the Balkans. Gurko suppresses the clergy and the free press and imprisons the Prime Minister Baron Von Neuhoff (Montagu Love). The rightful ruler of the Grand Duchy, the Grand Duchess Zona (Joan Bennett), hopes to get aid fromNapoleon III of Franceand makes her escape pursued by atroopofHussarsloyal to Gurko. While on a hunting trip, the visiting Count of Monte Cristo (Louis Hayward), rescues her. The Count escorts the Grand Duchess Zona to a neutral country, but Gurko's Hussars violate international neutrality to return the Grand Duchess and herlady-in-waitingback to Lichtenburg. The count has become romantically enamored of Zona and undertakes to help her, visiting the Grand Duchy where he falls in with the undergroundresistance movementof Lichtenburg. He befriends the loyal Lt. Dorner (Clayton Moore) of the palace guard who knows a variety ofsecret passagesleading from the Grand Ducal Palace to the literal catacombs of the Grand Duchy. Discovering that Baron Von Neuhoff is to be executed, the Count gains entry to the palace through his previously being asked for a large loan of French Francs by Gurko and plays the role of a cowardlyfopishinternational banker. There he overhears Gurko meeting with the French Ambassador (Georges Renavent) who raises the issue of human rights in the Grand Duchy. Gurko counters him by saying he is signing anon aggression pactwith Russia protecting Lichtenburg from any French threats. Gurko schemes to gain the nation's loyalty by marrying the Grand Duchess and keeping the pact with Russia a secret. The count becomes a masked freedom fighter named "The Torch" after theunderground newspaperin order to save the Grand Duchy. He then sets out to right the wrongs and capture the heart of the woman he loves Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Yellow Cargois a 1936 AmericanPoverty Rowcrime filmwritten and directed byCrane WilburforGrand National Pictures. The film was rereleased in 1947 asSinful Cargo. StarringConrad Nagelas Alan O'Connor and producerGeorge A. Hirliman's wifeEleanor Huntas Bobbie Reynolds, it was the first of fourG-manfilm series; the others wereNavy Spy(1937),The Gold Racket(1937), andBank Alarm(1937). Plot: Alan O'Connor, a Federal Agent with theFederal Bureau of Narcoticsis transferred to theImmigration and Naturalization Serviceby flying to California in aBoeing 247, His mission is to use his expertise to assist them with identifying how a dangerous gang is infiltrating Chinese illegal immigrants into the United States. He meets newspaper reporter Bobbie Reynolds and hercomedy reliefphotographer Speedy "Bulb" Callahan who are trying to obtain an interview with the director and producer of Globe Productions, a motion picture company who has yet to make a film. As O'Connor has stage acting experience, he his goaded by Reynolds to get a role with Globe Productions. The trio discover that the film company brings twenty film extras in Chinesetheatrical makeupto one of theChannel Islands of Californiato shoot a film. Production is stopped, the extras are shipped back to the mainland by a different ship, the original boat brings back the same number of Chinese to the mainland. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Power Diveis a 1941 American film directed byJames P. Hogan. The film starsRichard Arlen,Jean ParkerandHelen Mack. Power Divewas the first film from the producing team ofPine-Thomas Productions, former press agents who had a producing unit at Paramount. Plot: Acetest pilotBradley Farrell (Richard Arlen), flying for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when an overweight prototype crashes. Brad's younger brother Douglas (Don Castle), a recent graduate in aeronautical engineering, thinks Doug's flying is too dangerous and is hired as a design engineer at McMasters. Carol Blake (Jean Parker) wants to interest Brad in her father's design for an aircraft made of plastic. Doug pretends to be Brad because he is attracted to her but Brad meets Carol and takes her out flying. She introduces him to her blind father, Professor Blake (Thomas W. Ross), resulting in Brad becoming immersed in the professor's new designs. Brad's friend, Johnny Coles (Louis Jean Heydt), loses his life test flying his own, similar design, that breaks apart in the air, leaving behind his wife and child. Despite his friend's death, Brad convinces the company to build Blake's"geodetic" aircraft design, with his brother put in charge of the project. After Brad returns from setting a new cross-country speed record, he proposes to Carol, but she is in love with Doug. Doug doesn't know Carol's true feelings and with the test of the professor's aircraft imminent, he is at odds with Brad over the new aircraft's design. Brad has to fly the aircraft for US Army officials but is worried that the heavy test equipment will make the aircraft dangerous to fly. Doug will fly with him on the test and when a9gpower dive is scheduled, Doug passes out. The test equipment breaks free, jamming the rudder. Brad forces Doug to parachute to safety, and then cuts the rudder wires, grabbing them with his bare hands. He manages to land the aircraft safely although his hands are cut badly. With the aircraft accepted, Brad gives up test flying to become a vice-president of McMasters Aviation. Doug and Carol find happiness and marry. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Outpost in Moroccois a 1949actionadventure filmdirected by Robert Florey, starringGeorge RaftandMarie Windsor. Paul Gerard (George Raft), aMoroccan Spahiofficer and hisFrench Foreign Legiongarrison, holds off attacks from the native tribes of theEmirof Bel-Rashad (Eduard Franz), the father of Cara (Marie Windsor), the woman he loves.As a rarity amongst American films of the Foreign Legion genre, the Legion cooperated with the producers. Asecond unitled byRobert Rossenfilmed scenes in Morocco.Some of the large-scale action scenes of the film were reused inFort AlgiersandLegion of the Doomed. Plot: SpahiCaptain Paul Gerard (George Raft) is assigned to lead a patrol to the city of Bel-Rashad en route to a French Foreign Legion fort. Gerard is to escort the Emir's daughter, Cara, who has been studying in France, to Bel-Rashad that is off limits to Frenchmen and investigate whether there may be anti-French activity in the city. On their ten-day journey Gerard and Cara fall in love. Leaving Cara at Bel-Rashad, Gerard reports to the Legion fort commanded by Commandant Fronval and his executive officer Lieutenant Glysko, a formerCossack. One night at the Legion outpost, a sentry is shot by a sniper with all agreeing the bullet did not come from a usual musket. Gerard infiltrates Bel-Rashad discovering the locals are being armed with modern Mauser rifles. Detected, Gerard grabs a rifle and fights his way out being hidden by Cara in her room until he makes his escape. At the Legion fort it is agreed that Gerard must personally inform headquarters of these new developments. Leading a strong patrol back to the fort they discover that the fort has been destroyed with one wall being obliterated and all the Legionnaires are dead. Some of the Legionnaires, including Commandant Fronval, are found bound and executed. Gerard orders a raid of Bel-Rashad in retaliation led by Lt. Glysko to capture the Emir. The Emir is out rallying the tribes but Lt. Glysko brings back Cara as a hostage. As the Legion has no cement, the wall is repaired with mud. The Emir lays siege to the fort, and diverts the river that leads to the fort's water supply with dynamite. Encouraged by his initial victory, the Emir hopes to unite all the tribes against the French. However, due to feelings of loyalty, gratitude or fear, none of the other tribes wish to attack the French. Faced with no water, Gerard plans a breakout and releases Cara. After Glysko prays to God. a rainstorm comes encouraging the garrison but destroying the mud built wall. After the rain Gerard orders the approach route to the destroyed wall planted with landmines and covered by machine guns that he figures the Emir will use as his route of attack. At dawn the Emir leads his tribe to overrun the fort through the open wall. Cara tries to stop his attack. As Gerard sees her riding into the minefield to see her father, Gerard sadly orders the detonation of the mines and thecrossfireto begin that wipes out the Emir, Cara and their tribe. The film ends with tribal leaders ordering their warriors to lay down their rifles in front of Gerard and his officers, in acknowledgement that order has been restored in Bel-Rashad. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Manfishis a 1956adventure film, released byUnited Artistsin 1956 and originally filmed inDeLuxe Color. Filmed inJamaica, it was released in Great Britain asCalypso. It was based on the 1843 stories "The Gold-Bug" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" byEdgar Allan Poe. ActorJohn Bromfieldstarred as Captain Brannigan andLon Chaney Jr.played the role of Swede. The leading female star wasTessa Prendergast, who played Alita. Tessa later became a fashion designer and designed thewhite bikini of Ursula AndressforDr. No.The film also featured the motion picture debut ofBarbara Nichols. Plot: Inspector Warren ofScotland Yardflies into Jamaica and is taken to the headquarters of theJamaica Constabulary Force. Exchanging credentials with a Jamaican Inspector, Warren reveals he has come to seek the extradition of a wanted criminal known as "The Professor". Surprised when the Inspector refuses toextraditethe Professor, the Jamaican Inspector recounts a story told inflashback. Devil-may-careadventurerBrannigan has won the shipManfishand itsfirst mateSwede in a poker game but keeps away from theManfish's creditors. During a drunken evening out Brannigan is attracted to a woman sitting with an older man called "the Professor" with the two brawling over her. During the brief fracas Brannigan notices the Professor is wearing an unusual heavy ring of askull and cross bones. The next day theManfishis at sea engaging in a turtle hunt. Two divers from the ship find a skeleton underwater holding a bottle. Brannigan swims to the skeleton and grabs the bottle. He breaks it open on board finding a ripped piece of paper dated 1793 with nonsensical French written on it, but inside the bottle is the same ring that the Professor wears. Tracking down the Professor, Brannigan persuades him to tell what he knows revealing it is half of a document by the pirateJean Lafittewith the professor holding the other half. Fearing for his life but clever and greedy, the Professor translates the map to reveal a treasure is on the island ofHispaniolabut the Professor insures his safety by destroying the map and memorising the contents. Once on the island a treasure worth £25,000 is recovered but the Professor promises it is a drop in the ocean compared to another treasure buried later by Lafitte that the Professor says he can locate. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Magic Sword(also known asSt. George and the Dragon,St. George and the Seven Curses, the film's original title,andThe Seven Curses of Lodac) is a 1962 Americanadventurefantasy filmdirected byBert I. Gordonthat is loosely based on the medieval legend ofSaint George and the Dragon. Plot: George is the foster son of Sybil, an elderly, somewhat ineffectualsorceress. She brought him up after his "royal parents died of the plague" in his infancy. He has fallen in love with the Princess Helene, but she is kidnapped by the wizard Lodac, who brazenly informs her father that he intends to feed her to his petdragonin seven days, in revenge for the death of his sister. George wants to go on a quest to liberate his lady love, but Sybil believes he is too young as he is only 20. She tries to distract the youth by showing him a magic sword; a steed; an invulnerable suit of armour; and six magically frozen knights that he will command when he turns 21. The impatient George tricks Sybil and locks her in a cellar, then leaves with the magical implements and the revived company of knights. Sir George and his party appear before the king and insist on journeying to Lodac's castle to rescue Helene, despite opposition from Sir Branton, a knight who has also volunteered for the perilous quest. The king promises the rescuer his daughter's hand in marriage and half his kingdom.Helene is forced to watch as Ladoc feeds two captive princess/sisters to his dragon. Seven curses bar the path to Lodac's castle. First, they encounter anogre, who slays Sir Ulrich ofGermanyand Sir Pedro ofSpainbefore George kills it. When George tries to save Sir Anthony ofItalyfrom drowning in a magic swamp, Branton treacherously kicks him in as well. Anthony is dissolved and killed, but George survives with the help of his magic sword. Later, Branton meets secretly with Lodac. It turns out that Branton has Lodac's ring, which the magician lost and wants back desperately, as his powers are crippled without it. The kidnapping was solely intended to make Branton look good, in exchange for the ring. Sir Dennis ofFrancecomes by and Lodac prepares a trap involving Mignonette, a beautiful Frenchwoman, who distracts her compatriot, before turning into an ugly hag who attacks him. Fortunately, George saves him with his magic shield. Lodac finally becomes aware that George is being aided by magic. He contacts Sybil and mocks her abilities. Stung, she tries to cast a spell to help George, but ends up inadvertently stripping away all his magical powers. Sir Dennis and Sir James ofScotlandburn and perish from a heat spiral when they reconnoitre ahead. Branton then leads George and Sir Patrick ofIrelandinto a trap, revealing his partnership with Lodac before sealing them in a cave with deadly green apparitions. Patrick, through the power of his faith, enables George to escape at the cost of his own life. George sneaks into Lodac's castle and rescues Helene, only to be captured. The magician gives Helene (actually the hag in disguise) to Branton, but once he has the ring, he uses magic to put Branton's head on a plaque on the wall. George is tied up, but escapes with the help of a number of escaped shrunken prisoners. Sybil arrives and finally remembers the spell that restores George's powers, enabling him to slay the two-headed dragon and save Helene. Sybil steals the ring while Lodac is distracted. When the magician threatens the young couple with the seventh curse (himself), Sybil transforms herself into a large panther and kills him. Helene and George get married and the six knights are restored to life, Sybill smiles as she wears Ladoc's dragon ring. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Legion of Missing Menis a 1937Monogram Picturesfilm about theFrench Foreign Legionset in theFrench protectorate of Morocco. Directed byHamilton MacFadden, it starsRalph Forbeswho had also served in the cinematic Foreign Legion inBeau Geste(1926) andBeau Ideal(1931).Singer and actress Hala Linda was married to Richard Gump, the composer of the film's "The Legionnaires Song".It was the only film of Monogram'sMarlene Dietrichimitator. The film features scenes reused from a silent film, presumablyUnder Two Flags Plot: Bob Carter is a professionalsoldier of fortunewhose expertise is in the use of themachine gun. He has plied his trade forSun Yat-Senin theXinhai Revolution, theMexican Revolutionand with the Spanish in theRif Warforde Rivera. Now he is content to be a Legionnaire in the 20th Marching Company of the3rd Foreign Infantry Regimentwith his comrades in arms the American Muggsy and the Englishman Bilgey. Bob's world changes in a variety of ways. First half his company is lost in attacks by Shiek Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed's insurgents who capture the company's cargo of crated machine guns and ammunition. Fortunately for the Legion the weapons are disassembled and none of the Shiek's band has the knowledge to get them into working order. Granted leave in the town of Zabala, Bob is romantically pursued by Nina De Bernay, a Frenchnightclub singer. Nina entertains the Legion but is romantically pursued herself by Bob's Sergeant Garcia; however Bob believes Nina to be his Sergeant's woman and does not pursue her. Arriving with a draft of replacements for the 20th Company is Bob's own younger brother Don who admires Bob's carefree action packed international lifestyle. Initially upset that Don has thrown away his university education and business potential away, Bob soon resigns himself to his brother's company. Problems arise when Nina, who can not have Bob and doesn't like Sgt Garcia makes a play for Don. Immature and oblivious to local custom and military disclipine, Don strikes Sergeant Garcia who gleefully has him arrested and vows to send him to the dreadedPenal Battalion. Bob breaks thechain of commandto appeal directly to his Regimental Commander to avoid ruining Don's life and the Colonel allows Don's release. Unknown to all, Nina uses her friendship with Shiek Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed to have two of his men free Don and smuggle him to a port where he may leave French North Africa anddesertthe Legion. Bob and his two friends Muggsy and Bilgey desert themselves to bring Don back. They track and ambush the party killing one of the Arabs, however the survivor brings reinforcements who capture the Legionnaires. TheShiekinitially treats his captives kindly; in order to obtain information. He then uses the opportunity to have Don teach his men how to assemble and use theHotchkiss M1914 machine gunsthat they captured from the Legion. This is beyond Don's knowledge but the Shiek knows of Bob's expertise and tortures Don until Bob performs these duties. Bob agrees when Don is released. Bob has his party assemble the weapons but modify all but two of the machine guns by filing theextractorsdown so they will break after a few rounds are fired and jam the weapons. Meanwhile Nina arrives and sees that the Shiek has not got Don out of the country and instead plans to wipe out the French. Though trusted by the Shiek, Nina proves herself loyal to France by escaping and warning the Legion of the Shiek's proposed attack on a strategic French fort. The Shiek plans his assault withfire supportfrom the two machine guns manned by the legionnaires who are offered their freedom to switch sides. To ensure their loyalty they are covered by the two other machine guns that Bob has sabotaged. As the fort is attacked, the four disgraced Legionnaires turn their machine guns on the Shiek and his horde of insurgents. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Forced Landingis a 1941 Americanaction filmdirected byGordon Wilesand distributed byParamount Pictures. The film recounts the exploits of a pilot in Mosaque, an imaginary country in the midst of turmoil.Forced LandingstarsRichard Arlen,Eva Gabor,J. Carrol Naish,Nils AstherandEvelyn Brent. Plot: In faraway tropical Mosaque, as soon as American pilot Dan Kendall (Richard Arlen) joins the country's Air Corps, he is in trouble. Along with his mechanic Christmas (Mikhail Rasumny), he is thrown into the military prison. His troubles start at a cantina after buying exotic beauty Johanna Van Deuren (Eva Gabor) a drink, not realizing he has antagonized her fiancé, Colonel Jan Golas (Nils Asther). A fight breaks out, leading to the pilot's arrest. Colonel Golas releases Dan from prison when he learns that his fiancée had nearly been run down by a car and Dan had come to her rescue. The bargain he makes with Dan is that the stranger has to resign from the military and take a job with the Mosaque Civil Airline. Golas has an ulterior motive for helping Dan, as he has been responsible for the airline being sabotaged on its last flights to bring payrolls to workers at the local fort. Unknown to him, Dan's pilot friend Petchnikoff (Harold Goodwin) lost his life in a crash engineered by Golas. Johanna, accompanied by Dan, flies to the fort to visit her sick father (Victor Varconi), only to find the disgruntled and penniless workers there are set to revolt. Dan promises to have their pay flown to the workers within three days. When he spots his friend's aircraft on the ground, after landing and searching for Petchnikoff, Dan and Johanna are captured by Andros Banshek (J. Carrol Naish), a bandit who has been working against the government in Mosaque. Banshek is sure the two would reveal his hideout unless they are silenced. When Banshek's son Nando (Bobby Dillon) is shot during their attempt to escape, Banshek implores Dan to fly his son to a doctor. While Nando is saved, Banshek is captured in Mosaque and killed by the police. Workers at the fort finally revolt, forcing Golas to react. Dan will fly with the payroll while Golas will fly as an escort. Johanna, afraid her father is in danger, stows away on Dan's aircraft. She is alarmed that the box containing the payroll is smoking. Dan dumps the box out of the aircraft just as it explodes. Golas then tries to shoot down Dan's aircraft but is himself downed by a box of metal parts that Dan throws out. When Golas crashes to his death, Dan brings the workers their pay and is able to quell the rebellion. The general (John Miljan) in charge of the military, absolves Banshek of his crimes and declares that he was a true patriot. Dan marries Johanna, with the newlyweds leaving Mosaque to go to the United States. Source – Wikipedia #ClassicAdventureDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ActionDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur