1942 Movies

It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mes...

Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to...

A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dis...

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

Comedy Western

A short drama documentary about the life of a Sami family in the northernmost part of Sweden, Lappland.

Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Ro...

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comed...

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys m...

Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When t...

A singing cowboy and his partner thwart a foreman who wants their mine.

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

An early social drama centered on a married woman's life and domestic struggles/triumphs.

Popeye's 4 newphews try to sneak out instead of eating their spinach, so Popeye demonstrates some of the benefits: playing piano, dancing, shadow boxi...

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'r...