Search results for "1942"
Dr. Renault’s Secret

Dr. Renault’s Secret

Dr. Renault’s Secret
IMDb: 6.1
58

A remake of the 1927 horror film “The Wizard”. Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancĂ©e who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault…

Whims

Whims

Whims
IMDb: 5.8
80

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game…

Genre: Comedy
Prelude to War

Prelude to War

Prelude to War
IMDb: 7
53

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American…

Genre: Documentary, War
The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn
IMDb: 6.1
98

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German…

Genre: Drama, War
The Big Street

The Big Street

The Big Street
IMDb: 6.4
88

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
IMDb: 5.4
73

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Genre: Drama, War
The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence
IMDb: 6.7
89

Loosely inspired from Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Native Land

Native Land

Native Land
IMDb: 6.3
89

By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support…

Genre: Drama, History
Land of the Open Range

Land of the Open Range

Land of the Open Range
IMDb: 6.1
60

A land owner’s will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.

Genre: Western
Manila Calling

Manila Calling

Manila Calling
IMDb: 6.8
81

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

Genre: Drama, War
Pardon My Stripes

Pardon My Stripes

Pardon My Stripes
IMDb: 7.3
64

Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of “Dope…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Street of Chance

Street of Chance

Street of Chance
IMDb: 6.3
74

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man’s memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a…

For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal
IMDb: 7
104

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

You Can’t Escape Forever

You Can’t Escape Forever

You Can’t Escape Forever
IMDb: 6.1
77

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

The Great Mr Handel

The Great Mr Handel

The Great Mr Handel
IMDb: 6.8
89

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

White Cargo

White Cargo

White Cargo
IMDb: 6
88

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Stagecoach Buckaroo

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Stagecoach Buckaroo
IMDb: 5.8
58

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Fantastic Night

Fantastic Night

Fantastic Night
IMDb: 6.7
90

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep…

Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball
IMDb: 5.9
60

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars…

Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster
IMDb: 5.7
62

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners…

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Mystery of Marie Roget
IMDb: 5.9
61

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Donald’s Snow Fight

Donald’s Snow Fight

Donald’s Snow Fight
IMDb: 7.9
7

It’s snowed, and Donald Duck is going sledding. Meanwhile, his nephews have built a snowman at the bottom of the hill. Donald aims his sled at their snowman and demolishes…

The Mayor of 44th Street

The Mayor of 44th Street

The Mayor of 44th Street
IMDb: 5.6
86

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
A Yank on the Burma Road

A Yank on the Burma Road

A Yank on the Burma Road
IMDb: 5.6
67

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Tree in a Test Tube

The Tree in a Test Tube

The Tree in a Test Tube
IMDb: 4.6
6

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.

Destruction Inc.

Destruction Inc.

Destruction Inc.
IMDb: 6.4
9

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

Showdown

Showdown

Showdown
IMDb: 6.8
8

Superman’s reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.

The Magnetic Telescope

The Magnetic Telescope

The Magnetic Telescope
IMDb: 7
8

When police interfere with a reckless scientist’s experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.

Electric Earthquake

Electric Earthquake

Electric Earthquake
IMDb: 6.8
9

A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!

Volcano

Volcano

Volcano
IMDb: 6.9
8

Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

Terror on the Midway

Terror on the Midway

Terror on the Midway
IMDb: 6.4
8

When things go wrong at the circus, it’s up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.

The Arctic Giant

The Arctic Giant

The Arctic Giant
IMDb: 6.8
9

A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!

The Bulleteers

The Bulleteers

The Bulleteers
IMDb: 6.9
8

Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!

Japoteurs

Japoteurs

Japoteurs
IMDb: 6.3
9

Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.

Billion Dollar Limited

Billion Dollar Limited

Billion Dollar Limited
IMDb: 7
9

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour
IMDb: 6.1
8

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

The Tuttles of Tahiti

The Tuttles of Tahiti

The Tuttles of Tahiti
IMDb: 6
91

After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and…

Miss V from Moscow

Miss V from Moscow

Miss V from Moscow
IMDb: 4.9
73

Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny…

The Hidden Hand

The Hidden Hand

The Hidden Hand
IMDb: 6.1
66

Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are…

Strangers in the House

Strangers in the House

Strangers in the House
IMDb: 7
95

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery