The Great Adventure Films

by Tony Thomas

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806505567
• ISBN13: 9780806505565
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fifty Fantastic Films

Despite being 34 years old when I finally got around to reading it, I didn't find this book the least bit obsolete. True, all the photos are in B & W, even of the color films, and there is nothing about DVD availability (DVD's not having been invented yet), but each of the fifty films gets at least four pages of text and photos, arguably enough to indicate whether it is a film you'd like to track down and view. In the Introduction Mr. Thomas explains his criteria for selection, with which no doubt many will disagree, but I think the most useful thing I can do here is to simply list the films included: The Mark of Zorro (1920) Don Juan (1926) The General (1926) Wings (1927) Treasure Island (1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Tarzan and His Mate (1934) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) The Call of the Wild (1935) The Crusades (1935) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Gunga Din (1939) The Four Feathers (1939) Beau Geste (1939) Northwest Passage (1940) The Sea Hawk (1940) 49th Parallel (1941) The Jungle Book (1942) Henry V (1944) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Captain from Castile (1947) The Flame and the Arrow (1950) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) The African Queen (1951) Ivanhoe (1952) Scaramouche (1952) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) The Court Jester (1956) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) War and Peace (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Swiss Family Robinson (1960) The Sundowners (1960) Ride the High Country (1961) El Cid (1961) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Great Escape (1963) Zulu (1964) The Naked Prey (1966) The Professionals (1966) The Man Who Would Be King (1975)