Man and Woman in the Wild
Here is a list of movies where a man and a woman go into, or find themselves or live in wild nature and rough it up or even try to survive against many odds.
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- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsRichard WidmarkTrevor HowardJane GreerIn Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsClark GableJoan CrawfordIan HunterConvicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartKatharine HepburnRobert MorleyIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRobert MitchumDeborah KerrDuring World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsWilliam HoldenSusannah YorkCapucinePolitical and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsCharlton HestonEleanor ParkerAbraham SofaerThe Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsBarbara StanwyckRobert RyanDavid FarrarA fugitive in British Burma hides on a teak plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableJean HarlowGene RaymondThe owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsClark GableGrace KellyAva GardnerOn a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRobert TaylorEleanor ParkerVictor McLaglenRobert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsDorothy LamourRay MillandLynne OvermanWhile searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of beautiful jungle girl Tura, the only inhabitant of the island and believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a makeshift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter--Tura. He had set her up as a goddess but now she must pay for befriending the hated white men by being sacrificed to the crocodiles in an underground temple. An earthquake rocks the island and destroys Kuasa and his band. Bob, Jimmy, and Tura find a party of rescuers waiting on the beach, headed by aviation company president J.C. Martin and his daughter Eleanor, Bob's fiancée. Bob must choose between Tura and Eleanor.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsElizabeth TaylorDana AndrewsPeter FinchThe young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
- DirectorOtto PremingerJean NegulescoStarsRobert MitchumMarilyn MonroeRory CalhounThe titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperSusan HaywardRichard WidmarkA trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsWilliam HoldenTrevor HowardCapucineIn Kenya, when young Tina befriends a lion and embraces local customs, her mother summons Tina's American father to help bring Tina back to civilization and give her a civilized upbringing.
- DirectorHenry KingRoy Ward BakerStarsGregory PeckSusan HaywardAva GardnerWriter Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsFrances DeeTom ConwayJames EllisonA nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsCary GrantLeslie CaronTrevor HowardDuring World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSusan HaywardRobert MitchumWalter SlezakIn 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsHarrison FordAnne HecheDavid SchwimmerRobin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island.I have not seen this film, unlike the others on this list, but added it per suggestion.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGlenn FordAnn SheridanZachary ScottA wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey.
- DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
- DirectorNoel LangleyStarsJoan CollinsGeorge ColeKenneth MoreAfter a cruise ship emergency, a spoiled rich attractive female passenger and three men are marooned on a deserted island where the men compete for her favors.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsAva GardnerStewart GrangerDavid NivenWhile shipwrecked on a deserted island, best friends Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett compete against each other for the affections of the only woman available, Philip Ashlow's neglected wife, Susan.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDana AndrewsJeanne CrainDavid FarrarIn Rhodesia, the accidental death of a diamond broker raises suspicions with his American insurer, which sends a claims investigator to clarify the matter.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRose HobartCharles BickfordGeorges RenaventWoman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.