Best Action movies of 1961

Actors : David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Barbara Eden, Joan Fontaine, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lorre,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, US Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin, John Wayne,

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Actors : Bent Mejding, Povl Wøldike, Asbjørn Andersen, Ann Smyrner,
Directors : Sidney W. Pink,

After copper miners discover part of the frozen tail of a prehistoric monster in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Christopher Rhodes, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester, Bill Travers,
Directors : Eugène Lourié,

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Actors : Francis X. Bushman, Anthony Dexter, Coleen Gray, Dean Fredericks,
Directors : William Marshall,

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Actors : Aleksei Gribov, Margarita Nazarova, Ivan Dmitriev, Evgeniy Leonov,
Directors : Vladimir Fetin,

A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Alice Kessler, George Ardisson, Ellen Kessler,
Directors : Mario Bava,

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks ...

Actors : Virna Lisi, Franco Volpi, Gordon Scott, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Azra, Nasir Khan, Vyjayanthimala,
Directors : Nitin Bose,

Widowed Govindi lives a poor lifestyle in Haripur along with two sons, Gungaram and Jumna. While Jumna is studious, Gungaram is the opposite, but has a good heart and decides to use his ...

Actors : Geneviève Grad, Gérard Barray, Jean Marais, Riccardo Garrone,
Directors : Pierre Gaspard-Huit,

The ruined Baron Philippe de Sigognac, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors. Attracted by Isabelle, and by the enthusiasm of his acting companions, he joins the troupe.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Marne Maitland, Geoffrey Toone, Yvonne Monlaur,
Directors : Anthony Bushell,

In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Dante DiPaolo,
Directors : Antonio Leonviola,

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean Marais, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Hanin,
Directors : André Hunebelle,

Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not ...

Actors : Isao Kimura, Akiko Kazami, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mother.

Actors : Alberto Lupo, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Giacomo Furia,
Directors : Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,

Actors : Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva, Jack Palance,

Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. ...

Actors : Ed Fury, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orfei, Cristina Gaioni,
Directors : Carlo Campogalliani,

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to ...