Movies 1942 Page 47

Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England, their more active jobs include ferrying planes...

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.

Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

Tom and Jerry are in a bowling alley. Both spend a lot of time sliding on the well-polished lanes. Eventually, Jerry takes up residence among the...

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her...

The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wallet, was taken to the neighboring town for the...

Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water. When windmills are built and they start pumping...

Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth,...

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.

A documentary about World War II, also known as the "Holy War" while Romania was an ally to Nazi Germany. The propagandistic nature of the film is...

June Fifth ( Ger: Der 5. Juni) is a 1942 German propaganda war film. The storyline centers on an infantry unit during the French campaign. After the...

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking...

The factory owner's son Oldřich missed his own wedding. He overdid his bachelor party and spent the night before the wedding in Mr. Šourek's...

This Damien Parer/Ken Hall newsreel was shot at a time remembered as the dark days to Australia's north, with the Japanese still strong and...

The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and...

A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema"...

A hobo crow tricks a canary out of his comfortable cage with inflated promises of happiness in the outside world.

Flush riveting is a way of connecting two pieces of sheet metal together, using rivets whose heads do not protrude above the surface of the metal. In...

Sailor Popeye, faced with many menial tasks, fastens a couple of mops to the prop of his plane, substitutes water for bullets in his machine gun and...

A history of the tomato. Begins with the discovery of the plant by Cortes when he conquered Montezuma.

A Walter Lantz Andy Panda cartoon released December 21, 1942.

A Toreador, who talks like Jimmy Durante, wants to marry the fair Spanish lass, who talks like Lupe Velez, but her father, who talks like Leo...

Associated Screen Studios' 'The Thousand Days' is a dramatic, impressionistic review of an historic one thousand days--since September 1939. You see...

Musical short

A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.

Barney sets off in search of honey to compensate for wartime rationing, but his various gadgets don't always work out the way they were intended.

A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.

A trio of belfry-dwelling bats explain to us, musically (and demonstrate), why they are associated with nuttiness. Especially the smallest.

A Soundie starring Barry Wood.

The importance of timing in athletics

Kaye Lorraine singing "I Don't Want to Walk Without You".

A Disney educational animated short instructing the use of the Boys MK.1 Anti-Tank rifle.

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value...