1942 Movies

Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her l...

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

A renowned and widowed otolaryngologist hires a young, penniless poet as live-in nanny for his three rowdy – but musically gifted – children.

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napo...

Gandy and Sourpuss have been patching up their worn-out tires, due to wartime civilian restrictions on rubber. But finally they give out for the last...

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours, afte...

Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger?

After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: H...

Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to...

Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.

In this western, guns blaze, fists fly, horses run, and justice prevails in the end.

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a littl...

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubho...

A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is tryin...

A Soundie with Spike Jones and His City Slickers.