The best Forbes Murray’s action movies

Forbes Murray

Forbes Murray

04/11/1884- 18/11/1982
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
6.3/10
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1944
  • Character: Navy Surgeon (uncredited)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Shipwreck Inquiry Board Member
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves
6.5/10
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

The Spider's Web

The Spider's Web
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 21/10/1938
  • Character: Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.

Thunder Afloat

Thunder Afloat
6.3/10
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Manhunt of Mystery Island

Manhunt of Mystery Island
7/10
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Professor Houston
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

The Gal Who Took the West

The Gal Who Took the West
6.2/10
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

Sabotage

Sabotage
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/10/1939
  • Character: (uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

Air Devils

Air Devils
4.8/10
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

Hoppy Serves a Writ

Hoppy Serves a Writ
6.3/10
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.

Perils of Nyoka

Perils of Nyoka
7.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 27/06/1942
  • Character: Prof. Douglas Campbell
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Professor Houston
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.

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