Movies 1942 Page 50

A young writer finds a hostile environment when he returns to his town.

A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.

The servant girl Carmela arrives from her village to work in the house of the notary Don Domenico, a hypocritical and ambiguous man, who seduces her....

A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

After a traveling magician puts a poster over the entrance to his home, Bugs visits his act to get revenge.

Documentary on the annual report, between 1941 and 1942, of Winter Aid, a national-socialist organisation that took over all social assistance works...

Ulla and Gunnar meet and fall in love in Stockholm in the late 1930s. Early in their relationship Ulla discovers that she is pregnant but she decides...

Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a...

This iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien Parer contains some of the most recognised images of Australian troops in the Second...

Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to...

The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant...

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried...

Donald is stuck on KP at an air training base. Sergeant Pete gives him a huge pile of potatoes to peel first, then gives him some tests: close your...

Andy is a shopkeeper who's obsessed with crime radio programs. He finds out that a priceless diamond has been stolen by two thieves and Andy tracks...

Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.

Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their...

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.

A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

A booking clerk is dismissed after a mistake, and confused with a millionaire in London.

Restored film directed by Josef Berne, released in 1942

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A 1’ at...

A dog who works as an air raid warden is all prepared for a good night's sleep. He is just starting to doze when the "dripping" noise of a leaky...

The US Marine Corps Band and chorus perform several songs associated with the Marines and the Navy. As the songs are played, we see monuments in...

A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat...

A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.

In this one, a community of mice and birds are living and playing peacefully until the arrival of the title character: a mechanical cat who wants to...

Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.

Sally Rand performs her famous fan dance in this 1942 soundie.

Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian life during World War II is narrated by Walter Huston...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

Wild and Woozy West is another of the unsung cartoons from the Columbia studio of the '40s. It concerns the capture of the western wolf villain Angel...

Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.

A little burro is beloved by all the cute wild creatures until he opens his mouth and they hear the horrible braying.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

A British WWII propaganda short warning citizens that Nazi sympathizers could be listening to their everyday conversations to discover important...

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this...