Search results for "1942"
The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner
IMDb: 7.5
112

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert
IMDb: 7
62

Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited…

Who’s Who in the Zoo

Who’s Who in the Zoo

Who’s Who in the Zoo
IMDb: 6.3
7

A wacky travelogue takes us to the zoo, where Porky Pig is the keeper and goofy animals provide the basis for a series of black-out gags.

Genre: Animation
Porky’s Pastry Pirates

Porky’s Pastry Pirates

Porky’s Pastry Pirates
IMDb: 6.1
7

Porky owns a bakery. A hungry fly stares in through the window, as a bee shows up and tells him he should just go for it. The bee enters and…

Genre: Animation
Sing Your Worries Away

Sing Your Worries Away

Sing Your Worries Away
IMDb: 5.8
70

This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill
IMDb: 5.3
68

Karanina “Nina” Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy
IMDb: 6.4
95

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
To the Shores of Tripoli

To the Shores of Tripoli

To the Shores of Tripoli
IMDb: 6
86

Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
It Happened in Flatbush

It Happened in Flatbush

It Happened in Flatbush
IMDb: 6
80

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

Genre: Comedy
The Mad Doctor of Market Street

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

The Mad Doctor of Market Street
IMDb: 5.2
61

A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
A Yank at Eton

A Yank at Eton

A Yank at Eton
IMDb: 6.1
88

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
IMDb: 7.3
118

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
All Through the Night

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
IMDb: 7.1
107

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Random Harvest

Random Harvest

Random Harvest
IMDb: 7.9
126

An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Grand Central Murder

Grand Central Murder

Grand Central Murder
IMDb: 6.5
73

Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she’s found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida’s shady…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
IMDb: 7.3
96

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Bandit Ranger

Bandit Ranger

Bandit Ranger
IMDb: 6.2
56

Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak…

Genre: Western
The Big Shot

The Big Shot

The Big Shot
IMDb: 6.7
82

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm
IMDb: 6.6
99

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Rio Rita

Rio Rita

Rio Rita
IMDb: 6
91

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Genre: Comedy
You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier
IMDb: 7.2
97

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Call of the Canyon

Call of the Canyon

Call of the Canyon
IMDb: 6.6
71

A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Genre: Western
The Bugle Sounds

The Bugle Sounds

The Bugle Sounds
IMDb: 6.1
102

An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post.

Genre: Drama, War
Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
IMDb: 6
72

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Genre: Western
The Bashful Bachelor

The Bashful Bachelor

The Bashful Bachelor
IMDb: 5.2
78

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid…

Genre: Comedy
Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock
IMDb: 6.6
112

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn’t cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Blondie for Victory

Blondie for Victory

Blondie for Victory
IMDb: 6.1
71

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam… Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia’s series of comedy films based on Chic Young’s…

Genre: Comedy
The Magnificent Dope

The Magnificent Dope

The Magnificent Dope
IMDb: 6.8
83

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the “dope” takes his course. But winner…

Genre: Comedy
Tish

Tish

Tish
IMDb: 6.2
84

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs. Hadley
IMDb: 6.6
86

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are…

Genre: Drama
Thunder Birds

Thunder Birds

Thunder Birds
IMDb: 6.2
78

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
IMDb: 6.7
80

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Genre: Comedy
The Mad Monster

The Mad Monster

The Mad Monster
IMDb: 3.5
77

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories – and exact revenge.

Genre: Horror
Song of the Islands

Song of the Islands

Song of the Islands
IMDb: 6.2
76

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight
IMDb: 5.3
61

Soup kitchen operator and criminologist Bela Lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders.

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein
IMDb: 6.1
67

Ygor discovers Frankenstein’s creation is still alive and brings him to the Doctor’s son, Ludwig, for help. Obsessed with restoring the monster to his full potential, Ludwig is unaware that…

Mickey’s Birthday Party

Mickey’s Birthday Party

Mickey’s Birthday Party
IMDb: 6.5
8

The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having…

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy
IMDb: 7.6
126

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Genre: Drama, Music
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
IMDb: 5.3
66

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.

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco
IMDb: 7
82

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.