Action adventure films typically feature heroes facing physical challenges and threats while exploring exotic locations. They involve life-threatening situations, villains, and chases using various modes of transportation. The document provides descriptions of several classic action adventure films from the 1930s to 2000s that exemplify these characteristics, including Air Hawks, Arson Racket Squad, First Blood, Die Hard, Braveheart, and The Forbidden Kingdom.

1. Action Adventure
Ellie Mitchell

2. What is Action Adventure?
Action adventure is a film
genre where one or more
heroes is thrust into a series of
challenges that require
physical feats,
extended fights and frenetic
chases.
They often use their
action scenes preferably
to display and explore
exotic locations in an
energetic way
They usually show a resourceful character struggling
against incredible odds such as, life-threatening
situations, an evil villain, and/or being chased in
several ways of transportation .

3. Action Adventure film covers

4. Air Hawks 1934
An early film features Ralph Bellamy as the owner of an airline
company battling it out with another bigger and more lucrative
outfit over an airmail contract with the government. However,
the competition turns deadly and criminal when Bellamy's rival
hires a mad scientist to hit Bellamy's planes with his giant ray
machine.

5. Arson Racket
Squad 1938
When he is assigned to the arson squad in
order to get the goods on some dangerous
firebugs, New York City fireman Bob
Livingston faces the toughest challenge of
his career. After his boss dies in one of the
deliberately set blazes, Livingston turns
down a promotion in order to put an end to
the arson-for-profit racket once and for all

6. Arabian Nights
1942
A dazzling spectacle, loosely based on the
famous 19th-century fables, focusing on the
battle between two brothers over their late
father's throne. Evil brother Leif Erickson
nearly kills sibling Jon Hall in a fight, but sultry
dancing girl Maria Montez nurses the fallen
brother back to health. With help from best
friend Sabu, an aging Sinbad (Shemp Howard)
and Aladdin (John Qualen), Hall sets out to
regain his rightful position

7. Captain Kidd
1945
Charles Laughton is superb as one
of the most notorious pirates to ever
sail the seas, with Randolph Scott as
the man charged with bringing him to
justice.

8. Big House USA
1955
In this vintage crime thriller, a group of
hardened criminals decide to escape from
prison in order to claim $200,000 in hidden
ransom money. After working out the
logistics of their plan, they hatch a daring
underwater rescue. With the feds on their
backs, can the men reach the riches, or will
they be sent back to the big house?

9. Trail Blazer 1957
Bruce Bennett stars as the coonskin-
capped pioneer in this exciting saga about
the opening of the American frontier.
Lon Chaney, Jr., Faron Young. 76 min.
Standard; Soundtrack: English.

10. Billy Budd 1962
Herman Melville's seafaring story receives
a superb treatment from director/co-star
Peter Ustinov. Terence Stamp (in his film
debut) is Billy Budd, an optimistic, young
British sailor during a 1797 war between
England and France who wins favour with
all his crewmates, except for the sadistic
master-at-arms, who accuses Budd of
plotting a mutiny. The charge leads to a
trial in which Budd fights for his life.

11. Aloha, Bobby and
Rose 1974
Two in love young kids, Bobby and Rose
are forced to run away from home when
they are accused of committed robbery
and an assassination.
Director:
Floyd Mutrux
Writer:
Floyd Mutrux
Paul Le Mat, Dianne Hull and Tim McIntire

12. A small town in
Texas 1976
A young man set up on a phony drug charge by the corrupt
Sheriff Duke is released after serving three years in prison, Poke
only wants to start a new life with his girlfriend and their baby. But
when he learns that his gal has taken up with Duke, Poke vows
revenge against the sinister lawman.
Rated: PG
Jack Starrett

13. First Blood 1982
John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought
in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in
Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend,
he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo,
but what Teasel does not know that his
insult angered Rambo to the point where
Rambo became violent and was arrested,
as he was at the county jail being cleaned,
he escapes and goes on a rampage
through the forest to try to escape from the
sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as
Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel
Samuel Trautman tries to save both the
Sheriff's department and Rambo before the
situation gets out of hand.
Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy and
Richard Crenna

14. Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John
Meillon, David Gulpilil
Crocodile Dundee 1986
Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an
Australian crocodile hunter who lives in
the Australian outback and runs a
safari business with his trusted friend
and mentor Walter Reilly. After
surviving a crocodile attack, a New
York journalist named Sue arrives to
interview Mick about how he survived
and learns more about the crocodile
hunter. After saving Sue from a
crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New
York City, since Mick has never been to
a city. Mick finds the culture and life in
New York City a lot different than his
home and he finds himself falling in
love with Sue

15. Die Hard 1988
New York City
Detective John
McClane has just
arrived in Los Angeles
to spend Christmas
with his wife.
Unfortunately, it is not
going to be a Merry
Christmas for
everyone. A group of
terrorists, led by Hans
Gruber is holding
everyone in the
Nakatomi Plaza
building hostage. With
no way of anyone
getting in or out, it's up
to McClane to stop
them all. All 12!
Director:
John McTiernan
Writers:
Roderick
Thorp (novel), Jeb
Stuart (screenplay),
Stars:
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman and Bonnie
Bedelia

16. Robin Hood, Prince of
Thieves 1991Stars: Kevin Costner, Morgan
Freeman, Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio,Christian Slater
After being captured by Turks during the Crusades,
Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape
back to England where Azeem vows to remain until
he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile,
Robin's father has been murdered by the Sheriff of
Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows
to avenge his father's death. Even though Marian,
his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes
to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of
exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their
help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that
the Sheriff has spread.

17. Braveheart 1995
Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie
Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus
Macfadyen
William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel
English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of
Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and
brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he
loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make
Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

18. Breakdown 1997
Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh and Kathleen
Quinlan
Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving
to California and must drive
across the country. When they
find themselves stranded in the
middle of a desert with hardly
anyone or anything around,
their trip comes to a sudden
halt. Amy had taken a ride with
a friendly trucker to a small
diner to call for help, but after a
long time, Jeff becomes
worried. He finds that no one in
the diner has seen or heard
from his wife. When he finds
the trucker who gave Amy the
ride, the trucker swears he has
never seen her. Now Jeff must
attempt to find his wife, who
has been kidnapped and is
being held for ransom. But who
can he trust?

19. Chain of
Command 2000
Director:
John Terlesky
Writer:
T.L. Lankford
Connelly, a secret service agent whose contempt for the new president's morals
makes him unwilling to take a bullet for the guy is transferred to 'football duty'.
The football in question is the briefcase which gives the president control over
the whole of America's nuclear arsenal. It must be kept within 40 feet of him at all
times and officers guarding it have responsibility only for the briefcase. However,
during unofficial negotiations with a prominent Chinese businessman both the
president and the football are captured.

20. The Bourne Identity 2002
Director: Doug Liman
Stars: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris
Cooper, Clive Owen
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's
novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a
man whose wounded body is discovered
by fishermen who nurse him back to
health. He can remember nothing and
begins to try to rebuild his memory based
on clues such as the Swiss bank account,
the number of which, is implanted in his
hip. He soon realizes that he is being
hunted and takes off with Marie on a
search to find out who he is and why he is
being hunted

21. Hot Fuzz 2007
Jealous colleagues conspire to get
a top London cop transferred to a
small town and paired with a
witless new partner. On the beat,
the pair stumble upon a series of
suspicious accidents and events.
Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin
Freeman, Bill Nighy

22. The Forbidden Kingdom 2008
Director: Rob Minkoff
Stars: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael
Angarano, Yifei Liu
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong
Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an
extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop:
the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage
and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in
hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself
traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of
warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous
quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

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