Top 18 Action Movies Highly Recommended Released in 1957

In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code. Details on Mother India / IMDB / YouTube

Showdown in Arizona between the Bonell brothers, U.S. Marshals and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fisted rancher who controls the territory. Details on Forty Guns / IMDB / YouTube

A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws. Explore Night Passage / IMDB / YouTube

Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats. Details on The Tarnished Angels / IMDB / YouTube

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon. Info on The Pride and the Passion / IMDB / YouTube

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief. Check out Men in War / IMDB / YouTube

Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR. More about Jet Pilot / IMDB / YouTube

Aliens from another world send a huge robotic accumulator to invade the Earth and absorb all energy it comes in contact with. Info on Kronos / IMDB / YouTube

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers. Details on Night Ambush / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun. Look into Nine Lives / IMDB / YouTube

Union Army deserter, Lt. Hewitt, trains a ragtag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath. See more about The Guns of Fort Petticoat / IMDB / YouTube

A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarians that also hold their men captive. There is a cameo appearance by the sea serpent. Explore The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent / IMDB / YouTube

When the son of a landlord decides to modernize his business by replacing the horse carts with buses, a horse cart rider decides to challenge him. More about Naya Daur / IMDB / YouTube

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era. Read about Black River / IMDB / YouTube

Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed? Find out about Zombies of Mora Tau / IMDB / YouTube

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. Info on I Am Waiting / IMDB / YouTube

In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy territory in order to destroy an arms depot. Look into China Gate / IMDB / YouTube

International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis. Get info on Pickup Alley / IMDB / YouTube