Movies released in 1942

Captain Midnight

71/100

Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator ... See full summary »

There's One Born Every Minute

64/100

The advertising slogans of Jimmy Hanagan and the lab reports reveal that the patented prepared pudding invented by Lemuel P. Twine has a treasure of Vitamin Z and is full of Zumph. Lemuel's... See full summary »

Sheriff of Sage Valley

59/100

Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures ... See full summary »

Nightmare

66/100

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

Two Mugs from Brooklyn

63/100

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

72/100

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink...

Beyond the Blue Horizon

65/100

A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United ... See full summary »

Sons of the Pioneers

64/100

Night raiders are burning down the ranchers' barns and poisoning their cattle. Sheriff Gabby, unable to cope, goes east to get help from Roy, descendant of two famous sheriffs. Roy is a ... See full summary »

The Boss of Big Town

55/100

A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by an courageous undercover city market official.

Hawai · Maree oki kaisen

65/100

When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is ... See full summary »

Northwest Rangers

56/100

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler.

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

65/100

To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy... See full summary »

Secret Enemies

58/100

A lawyer becomes a government secret agent after an agent-friend of his is murdered, and discovers a nest of Nazi spies operating out of a former client's hotel.

I Was Framed

54/100

A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman... See full summary »

Eagle Squadron

69/100

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

Brooklyn Orchid

61/100

Taxicab company owners Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett rescue Lucy Gibbs from a suicide attempt and she...

Romance on the Range

69/100

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends. To complicate matters, the ranch owner, unknown to Roy, arrives with her ... See full summary »

The Omaha Trail

56/100

Vane hires Candel to haul his locomotive by freight wagon to Omaha. Ross knows that the railroad will mean the end of his freighting business and plans to make sure the locomotive does not ... See full summary »

Heart of the Rio Grande

67/100

Gene and Smiley help an all-too-proper girl Connie in her attempt to run a cattle ranch.

The Bashful Bachelor

60/100

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because...