Top 27 Action Movies Highly Rated Released in 1933

The showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength. Get info on Son of Kong / IMDB / YouTube

An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb. Details on The Ghoul / IMDB / YouTube

Danny Kean, a former inmate, pursues photography and romance with Patricia, whose father initially disapproves. A ethical dilemma strains their bond until Kean confronts his criminal past. Check out Picture Snatcher / IMDB / YouTube

A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair. Find out about Christopher Strong / IMDB / YouTube

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy. Info on The Eagle and the Hawk / IMDB / YouTube

Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land. Find out about Riders of Destiny / IMDB / YouTube

To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. Weber's (the gangster's) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back. See more about Parachute Jumper / IMDB / YouTube

Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. Explore A Shriek in the Night / IMDB / YouTube

Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers. Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar and takes Mary to his cave. See more about Tarzan the Fearless / IMDB / YouTube

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well. Info on Deluge / IMDB / YouTube

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory. Explore The Telegraph Trail / IMDB / YouTube

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform. Info on The Mind Reader / IMDB / YouTube

A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers. Learn about The Man from Monterey / IMDB / YouTube

Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Get info on The Three Musketeers / IMDB / YouTube

John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them. Explore Somewhere in Sonora / IMDB / YouTube

A former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship. Read about In the Wake of the Bounty / IMDB / YouTube

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism. Details on The Circus Queen Murder / IMDB / YouTube

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her colleagues have other intentions. Read about Below the Sea / IMDB / YouTube

Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder. Details on Man of the Forest / IMDB / YouTube

A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes. Check out The Whispering Shadow / IMDB / YouTube

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight. Details on The Big Chance / IMDB / YouTube

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of its famous corruption. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him. Learn about Corruption / IMDB / YouTube

An expose of the racketeering accident victims who extort millions of dollars annually from American automobile owners, insurance companies and property owners by staging fake accident with paid-witnesses standing by to serve in court trials if needed. After a few examples, this one concentrates on the 'gutter-floppers. Look into Emergency Call / IMDB / YouTube

Comedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her. Check out Hot Pepper / IMDB / YouTube

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe-hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him after his job is done. Here, he also encounters his son, on track to waste. Read about Laughing at Life / IMDB / YouTube

When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track. Read about High Gear / IMDB / YouTube

The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad. Info on Riot Squad / IMDB / YouTube