Best 24 Action Movies Highly Rated Released in 1941

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. Learn about High Sierra / IMDB / YouTube

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way. Find out about Hellzapoppin' / IMDB / YouTube

The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon. Learn about Superman: The Mad Scientist / IMDB / YouTube

Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold. Info on Tarzan's Secret Treasure / IMDB / YouTube

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army. More about Superman: The Mechanical Monsters / IMDB / YouTube

A stockbroker's new partner bets $10,000 that he can only tell the truth for twenty-four hours. Details on Nothing But the Truth / IMDB / YouTube

General Gurko Lanen is the dictator of Lichtenburg, a country set in the Balkans. With the help of Napoleon II, the rightful ruler Grand Duchess Zona aims to overthrow the general. She is also helped by the visiting Count of Monte Cristo. Check out The Son of Monte Cristo / IMDB / YouTube

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents. Read about Flying Wild / IMDB / YouTube

Federal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandit 'Pecos Pete.' Details on Go West, Young Lady / IMDB / YouTube

Rough-hewn Rocky Evans has two great loves--his job building bridges and beautiful Helen Powers, his boss' daughter. But it's Rocky's shiftless brother Chuck who wins Helen's affections. Chuck even takes a job on Rocky's bridge-building crew to woo Helen, but the two brothers soon find themselves clashing over work and love. Get info on Steel Against the Sky / IMDB / YouTube

The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up. Find out about Sheriff of Tombstone / IMDB / YouTube

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a robot control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it. Details on Emergency Landing / IMDB / YouTube

Roy and Gabby have to establish fair business practices in the town of Deadwood, currently dominated by entrepreneurs who scare off potential competitors. Info on Bad Man of Deadwood / IMDB / YouTube

Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them. Get info on The Gang's All Here / IMDB / YouTube

When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation. Details on Double Cross / IMDB / YouTube

Enemy spies try to steal a new fighter plane. Learn about Sky Raiders / IMDB / YouTube

An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic. Look into Jungle Man / IMDB / YouTube

The Rough Riders are called upon to help save a stagecoach line. Details on Arizona Bound / IMDB / YouTube

Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to a showboat, where he finds that teenage singer Patsy's father has been working with the robbers to provide for her future. Get info on Ridin' on a Rainbow / IMDB / YouTube

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown, and of course he discovers who the real bad guy is. Get info on In Old Cheyenne / IMDB / YouTube

When two outlaws are released from prison, they travel to Arizona to take care of the newly retired Marshal that put them behind bars. Learn about Forbidden Trails / IMDB / YouTube

Out to prove that Hester is not a murderer, detectives Phyllis and Duke Maratindel try to stay one step ahead of the police as they track down the real killer. Info on Dangerous Lady / IMDB / YouTube

Beverly Blake, the Blonde Comet and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car and is soon tearing up the tracks and winning races in Italy, France, and Germany (prior to 1938 when those countries were no longer running international car races in Europe.) When she returns to race on American tracks she meets Jim Flynn, another race-driv. See more about Blonde Comet / IMDB / YouTube

This star-laden western serial has our able heroes escaping various perils devised by the evil Wolfe Reade and his pack of outlaws, who wish to lay claim to a fabled lost mine. Learn about Riders of Death Valley / IMDB / YouTube