| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1930 |
| The Big Trail |
Raoul Walsh |
John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power, Sr., El Brendel |
 |
epic, wagon train |
| Morocco |
Josef von Sternberg |
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou |
|
Desert adventure |
| Storm Over Mont Blanc |
Arnold Fanck |
Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist |
 |
mountaineering adventure |
| 1931 |
| East Of Borneo |
George Melford |
Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar |
|
jungle adventure |
| 1932 |
| Tarzan the Ape Man |
W.S. Van Dyke |
Johnny Weissmuller,Maureen O'Sullivan |
|
jungle adventure |
| The Mask of Fu Manchu |
Charles J. Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor |
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett |
|
|
| Chandu the Magician |
William Cameron Menzies,Marcel Varnel |
Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall |
|
secret agent |
| The Most Dangerous Game |
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson |
|
desert island, jungle |
| 1933 |
| Don Quixote |
G.W. Pabst |
Feodor Chaliapin, Sr., George Robey, Oscar Asche, Emily Fitzroy |
  |
Romantic adventure, adventure drama |
| King Kong |
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher |
|
jungle adventure |
| The Son of Kong |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston |
|
jungle adventure |
| S.O.S. Eisberg |
Arnold Fanck |
Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist |
|
mountaineering adventure |
| Tarzan the Fearless |
Robert F. Hill |
Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren |
|
Film serial, jungle adventure |
| 1934 |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel |
Harold Young |
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce |
|
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| Four Frightened People |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Herbert Marshall, claudette Colbert, Mary Boland, William Gargan |
|
jungle adventure, desert island |
| The Lost Patrol |
John Ford |
Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny |
|
desert |
| Tarzan and His Mate |
Cedric Gibbons,Jack Conway |
Johnny Weissmuller,Maureen O'Sullivan |
|
jungle adventure |
| Treasure Island |
Victor Fleming |
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce |
|
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| 1935 |
| Captain Blood |
Michael Curtiz |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill |
|
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| China Seas |
Tay Garnett |
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell |
|
Sea adventure, Romantic adventure |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
Henry Hathaway |
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell |
|
Romantic adventure |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Frank Lloyd |
Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone |
|
Sea adventure, Adventure drama |
| She |
Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel |
Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce |
|
|
| Savage Fury |
Lew Landers |
Noah Beery, Jr.,Walter Miller, Dorothy Short |
|
jungle adventure |
| 1936 |
| The Adventures of Frank Merriwell |
Cliff Smith |
Donald Briggs |
|
serial |
| Darkest Africa |
B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane |
Clyde Beatty,Manuel King, Elaine Shepard |
|
Film serial |
| Flash Gordon |
Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill |
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon |
|
Space age, Romantic adventure |
| Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island |
Ray Taylor, Mack Wright |
Mala,Rex, the Wonder Horse, Buck, the Dog |
|
Film serial, US spies in Polynesia |
| Tarzan Escapes |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnny Weissmuller,Maureen O'Sullivan |
|
jungle adventure |
| The Last of the Mohicans |
George B. Seitz |
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes |
|
|
| Undersea Kingdom |
B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane |
Ray Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue |
|
serial |
| 1937 |
| Captains Courageous |
Victor Fleming |
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore |
|
Adventure drama, Sea adventure |
| Elephant Boy |
Robert J. Flaherty |
Sabu, Walter Hudd, W.E. Holloway |
|
India adventure |
| King Solomon's Mines |
Robert Stevenson |
Cedric Hardwicke, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Anna Lee |
|
African adventure |
| The Legion of Missing Men |
Hamilton MacFadden |
Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda |
|
War adventure |
| Lost Horizon |
Frank Capra |
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, John Howard |
|
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| The Mysterious Pilot |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian |
|
Film serial |
| The Prisoner of Zenda |
John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke |
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Mary Astor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
|
Swashbuckler |
| Zorro Rides Again |
John English,William Witney |
John Carroll,Helen Christian |
|
Serial |
| 1938 |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains |
|
Swashbuckler, Romantic adventure |
| The Drum |
Zoltan Korda, |
Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson |
|
British Raj adventure |
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars |
Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill |
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon |
|
Space age, Romantic adventure |
| Hawk of the Wilderness |
Jon English, William Witney |
Bruce Bennett,Noble Johnson, Mala |
|
Film serial, uncharted jungle island |
| Heart of the North |
Lewis Seiler |
Dick Foran |
|
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| Tarzan and the Green Goddess |
Edward A. Kull |
Herman Brix |
|
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| 1939 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Richard Thorpe |
Mickey Rooney |
|
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| Beau Geste |
William Wellman |
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy |
|
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| Buck Rogers |
Ford Beebe,Saul A. Goodkind |
Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran |
|
futuristic adventure |
| The Four Feathers |
Zoltan Korda |
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith |
|
African |
| Gunga Din |
George Stevens |
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
|
subcontinent adventure |
| Jamaica Inn |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie |
|
|
| Mandrake the Magician |
Norman Deming, Sam Nelson |
Warren Hull, Doris Weston, Al Kikume |
|
serial |
| Only Angels Have Wings |
Howard Hawks |
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell |
|
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| Tarzan Finds a Son! |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnny Weissmuller,Maureen O'Sullivan |
|
jungle adventure |
| Union Pacific |
Cecil B. Demille |
Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy |
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