Best action films 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best action films 1951 – 1960
1. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen
3. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
4. The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
France / Italy, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: André Hunebelle
Cast: Jean Marais, Bourvil
5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
6. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
UK / USA, War / Action
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo
7. The Young Lions (1958)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift
8. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
UK / USA, Family / Fantasy
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant
9. Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster
10. The Enemy Below (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens
11. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter
12. The Vikings (1958)
USA / West Germany, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis
13. The Lusty Men (1952)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum
14. D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
USA, Romance / War
Directed by: Henry Koster
Cast: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd
15. Against All Flags (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: George Sherman
Cast: Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara
17. 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1958)
Mexico, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Cast: María Duval, Enrique Aguilar
18. Secret Scrolls (1957)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
19. The Silent Enemy (1958)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: William Fairchild
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams
20. The Steel Helmet (1951)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton
21. Classe tous risques (1960)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo
22. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
UK, War / Action
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle
23. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
USA, Western / Action
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush
24. Nine Lives (1957)
Norway, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arne Skouen
Cast: Jack Fjeldstad, Alf Malland
26. Bitter Victory (1957)
France / USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens
27. Helen of Troy (1956)
USA / Italy, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas
28. Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Cast: Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie
29. Blood Alley (1955)
USA, Adventure / Action
Directed by: John Wayne, William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
30. Up Periscope (1959)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Cast: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien
31. Flying Leathernecks (1951)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan
32. Distant Drums (1951)
USA, Action / Romance
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon
33. Darby's Rangers (1958)
USA, Action / War
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Garner, Jack Warden
34. Yagyu Secret Scrolls, part II (1958)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, 鶴田浩二
35. Pork Chop Hill (1959)
USA, War / Drama
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino
36. To Hell and Back (1955)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Jesse Hibbs
Cast: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson
37. Blowing Wild (1953)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
38. Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot
39. Anne of the Indies (1951)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
40. The Bandit (1953)
Brazil, Action / Drama
Directed by: Lima Barreto
Cast: Lima Barreto, Alberto Ruschel
41. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat
42. Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960)
Italy, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Giorgio Simonelli
Cast: Lex Barker, Walter Barnes
43. Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953)
USA, Western / Action
Directed by: Fred F. Sears
Cast: John Hodiak, John Derek
44. Jet Pilot (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: John Wayne, Janet Leigh
45. The World in His Arms (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth
46. Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
USA, Action / Western
Directed by: Felix E. Feist
Cast: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott
47. The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
France, Action / Crime
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel
48. Sea Devils (1953)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson
49. Hannibal (1959)
Italy, Historical / Biography
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Cast: Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti
50. The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
UK, Action / Drama
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: André Morell, Carl Möhner
51. Action of the Tiger (1957)
UK / USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Van Johnson, Martine Carol
52. Hell and High Water (1954)
USA, Drama / Sci-fi
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell
53. Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Cy Endfield
Cast: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart
54. The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
Italy / Spain, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone
Cast: Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann
55. Carthage in Flames (1960)
Italy / France, Drama / Action
Directed by: Carmine Gallone
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin
56. The Devil of the Desert (1954)
Egypt, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Omar Sharif, Tawfik El Deken
57. Hercules Unchained (1959)
Italy / France, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Pietro Francisci
Cast: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina
58. Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: John Guillermin
Cast: Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle
59. Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
UK / USA, War / Action
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler
60. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
USA / Japan, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Terry O. Morse, Ishirō Honda
Cast: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura
62. Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
USA, Action / Sci-fi
Directed by: Lee Sholem
Cast: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates
63. Bandido (1956)
USA / Mexico, Action / Western
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess
65. Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala
66. Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Japan, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Motoyoshi Oda
Cast: Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
67. The High and the Mighty (1954)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor
68. The Conqueror (1956)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward
69. The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)
USA, Fantasy / Action
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Susan Cabot, June Kenney
70. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra
72. Tarzan's Peril (1951)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Cast: Lex Barker, Virginia Huston
73. Zarak (1956)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Victor Mature, Michael Wilding
74. The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: John Gilling
Cast: Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey