The first in the legendary adventure trilogy. The earnest, intrepid and determined hero! The humour! The action! Supernatural threats as an evil regime meddles in ancient secrets best left alone! This film has it all.

The third Indiana Jones film. More helpings of enjoyable, fun, rollicking adventure just like its two prior episodes, with characters we now know and relate to.

Richard Chamberlain again plays Alan Quartermain in another H. Rider Haggard adaptation. As previously, Chamberlain doesn't quite have Harrison Ford's charisma or self-effacing mumbling brio to carry the role, and is perhaps a bit too jokey overall. However, this sequel was considered by critics to be more successful outing than King Solomon's Mines in trying to adapt the Indiana Jones formula.

A lot of fun, and the most successful - on its own terms - of the Indiana Jones clones. Also, rather than going all historical on us, this film is set in more recent times. The chemistry between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas as the two protagonists and the regular doses of sexual innuendo power this film along a riotous adventure ride.

This is an entertaining, goofy and cheesy remake of the old horror film of the same title. One reviewer noted that this film has the "courage of its own clichés". The influence of the adventure films listed above are obvious and so this former horror/thriller story becomes a rollicking adventure, and so joins this list.

Clive Cussler's novel gets the Hollywood treatment with a version that shies away from the drama and plays towards comedy. A romp; a mildly successful romp. Truly, this was a film looking for a sequel but it appears the hoped-for green light was not given by studio heads.