Movies released in 1942

Perils of Nyoka

71/100

It's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.

Flight Lieutenant

60/100

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.

Lady from Chungking

55/100

After the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops.

Billy the Kid Trapped

55/100

Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.

Gambling Hell

67/100

A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist ... See full summary »

Blondie for Victory

64/100

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking ... See full summary »

Submarine Raider

47/100

On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single ... See full summary »

The Dawn Express

46/100

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each ... See full summary »

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

58/100

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.

Wir machen Musik

69/100

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of ... See full summary »

La guerra gaucha

73/100

The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.

One Thrilling Night

57/100

Horace Jackson (John Beal) and his bride, Millie ('Wanda McKay' qv)),check into a New York City hotel room for their one-night honeymoon before he reports for induction into the arm the ... See full summary »

The Lady Has Plans

70/100

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of... See full summary »

Four Jacks and a Jill

55/100

Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.

Silver Queen

59/100

A well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games.

Malombra

69/100

A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.

This Time for Keeps

59/100

Lee White, recently married to Katherine Bryant, eyes a vacation from marital responsibilities when Katherine goes out of town to attend a friend's wedding. But he soon becomes bored and ... See full summary »

La cena delle beffe

65/100

Phantom Killer

53/100

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have ... See full summary »

Henry Aldrich, Editor

73/100

Henry (James Lydon) gets into another jam when he becomes the editor of the Centerville Hish School newspaper...