Movies released in 1942

Spy Smasher

72/100

Alan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.

The Forest Rangers

70/100

Ranger Don Stuart, pursuing a forest arsonist, finds time to romance a socialite.

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

53/100

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

4 passi fra le nuvole

75/100

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her...

Mr. and Mrs. North

62/100

Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor ... See full summary »

Apache Trail

58/100

The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and ... See full summary »

American Empire

55/100

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle

72/100

Berlin Correspondent

62/100

American correspondent Bill Roberts is a thorn in the side of the Nazis, as his paper always scoops the world with the truth about Germany. Gestapo Captain Carl Von Rau means to plug the ... See full summary »

Black Sheep of Whitehall

70/100

Will Hay plays a Professor teaching at a correspondence school who discovers that a Nazi agent is trying...

Song of the Islands

64/100

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... See full summary »

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

66/100

In the early 19th century, Congress mulls the idea of re-opening the West Point military training academy that formed officers for the American Revolutionary War.

Meet the Stewarts

62/100

A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.

Tish

63/100

Letitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house.... See full summary »

The Vanishing Virginian

67/100

Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Baby Face Morgan

52/100

When gang chief Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers re-organizes the mob. Learning that Morgan has a son named Edward , living in the country with his mother, Rogers has... See full summary »

They Raid by Night

44/100

The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides ... See full summary »

My Favorite Spy

60/100

Kay Kyser is late to his wedding. He is taking a short cut through Central Park when he finds out that he is in the army and is due to check in that afternoon. It turns out that the army ... See full summary »

It Happened in Flatbush

61/100

A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis)

The Three Musketeers

66/100

This is a parody of Alexander's Dumas "The Three Musketeers". Cantinflas is Dartagnan, the skillful leader of the musketeers, and will fight with the evil Cardinal Richelieu, who wants to ... See full summary »

Mashenka

76/100

In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka.

The Young Mr. Pitt

67/100

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

We the Living

71/100

The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the ... See full summary »

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

57/100

Edgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire... See full summary »

Obliging Young Lady

60/100

Linda Norton is instructed by her employer attorney to take young Bridget Potter, whose wealthy parents are engaged in a divorce suit, to an isolated country resort, to shelter the girl ... See full summary »