1942 Movies

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to sites in Massachusetts. Places visited include Plymouth Rock and harbor; John and Priscilla Alden's 3...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Biographical film about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Documentary short.

Farid is a young man of wealthy origin, but he is unemployed. He meets his neighbor, Ilham, who loves playing the piano. He teaches him to her, and th...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt...

A young Viennese actor is having much success on the stage; but intrigue and confusion in his love life are making his life a living Hell.

This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journa...

Original Schnickelfritz Band perform "Turkey in the Straw."

Ranchera comedy.

R.C.M. Soundie

Wartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the Second World War.

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.

A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.

Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien...

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about five seconds, until Olive comes on board sh...