Movies and TvShows featuring "native-chief" theme.
In 1519 Spain, Tulio and Miguel win a map to El Dorado, the city of gold, and escape on Cortez's ship. They follow markers to El Dorado, pretending to be gods when the locals mistake them for the divinities of El Dorado. Tulio falls in love with Chel, a local girl, while Miguel befriends the people. However, their scam starts to unravel as Miguel wants to stay in El Dorado and Tulio wants to take Chel and the gold and leave. They are pursued by the high priest, Tzekel-kan, and a stone jaguar statue he brings to life. Together, Tulio and Miguel defeat Tzekel-kan and save El Dorado from Cortez's invasion.
In this classic adventure film, a film crew goes to a tropical island in search of the legendary giant ape, King Kong. They capture the creature and bring it back to New York City, where it is exhibited as the Eighth Wonder of the World. However, Kong escapes and wreaks havoc in the city, ultimately climbing the Empire State Building before meeting his tragic end.
In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, a retired soldier is forced to undertake one last assignment before his retirement. As a Confederate veteran serving in the US Cavalry, he must confront challenges such as a runaway stagecoach, a traitor in their midst, and a Native American tribe. Along the way, he navigates the complexities of relationships, loyalty, and duty. Set against the backdrop of the American West, the film explores themes of honor, sacrifice, and the changing times of the frontier.
A college basketball coach travels to Africa in search of a talented player who could potentially save his career. Along the way, he learns about the local culture and forms a strong bond with the people he meets.
During a flight turbulence, a doctor, a pilot, and a maid crash-land on an unknown island dominated by a mansion filled with Nazi zombies. They must find a way to escape and survive, facing voodoo, hypnosis, and treachery along the way.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street follows a mad doctor who performs experiments to revive the dead. He brings back a drowned man and uses him as a guinea pig to study suspended animation. However, chaos ensues when the revived man starts wreaking havoc on Market Street. The doctor is then forced to find a cure for his experiment gone wrong.
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Tarzan's Savage Fury is a 1952 action-adventure film in which Tarzan, the legendary apeman, embarks on a daring expedition to rescue his wife from an impostor and a treacherous witch doctor. Along the way, Tarzan encounters deception, treachery, and a native chief held at gunpoint. The plot revolves around a quest for uncut diamonds and showcases the violence and reprisal faced by Tarzan as he seeks retribution. This psychotronic film, set in the 1950s, captures the essence of the Tarzan character and is a classic B-movie with elements of double-feature cinema.
In the 1920s, a young American woman finds herself trapped on a Pacific island during a devastating hurricane. As she struggles to survive, she falls in love with a native chief, leading to a forbidden romance. Together, they must navigate the treacherous aftermath of the hurricane and overcome societal and cultural barriers to be together.
In the year 1875, a young man embarks on an adventure in the Amazon jungle where he falls in love with a mysterious girl. Together, they face various challenges including search for gold, survival in the wilderness, encounters with bandits and wild animals, and cultural differences. Based on the novel, the story explores themes of love, bravery, and exploration of the unknown.
An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has been discovered.
Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.