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MOWGLI, HALF-BOY, HALF WOLF . . . armed only with a knife and the love of a girl, meets the challenge of Shere Khan, the Killer Tiger! A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life. Director: Zoltan Korda Writer: Laurence Stallings (adaptation) & Rudyard Kipling...
LOVE COMES TO PINE RIDGE…but it’s spelled L-A-U-G-H-S!…and your old friends LUM and ABNER supply them in the loudest doses you ever took! Lum Edwards finds out this General Store partner, Abner Peabody has traded the official general-store delivery car for a racehorse. Director: Malcolm St. Clair Writers: Chester Lauck,...
ZaSu Steps Out And The Underworld Steps In! A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as is falsely accused of being notorious murderer “Ma Parker”. Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: George Bricker , Edmond Kelso Stars: Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Warren Hymer Genres: Classics, Action,...
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he’s not the only one who got a blackmail letter....
Street of Chance is a 1942 American film noir mystery film directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he has been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder. He is suspected...
KING OF A RACKET SO BIG IT PAID OFF IN MURDER! A private eye, Eddie Delaney, and his new girlfriend Linda Ward, put the heat on rubber racketeers. Director: George Sherman Writers: Stuart Palmer, Richard Murphy Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton Genres: Classics, Action, Crime, Mystery, Film Noir...
The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Victor Young contributed the musical score, including a fast-paced variation of the William Tell Overture for the opening scenes. Typical of a Sturges...
The Lady is Willing is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray. Plot Elizabeth Madden longs for motherhood but has no husband. Her desire appears to be fulfilled when she finds an abandoned baby, but she...
Pardon My Sarong is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Abbott and Costello. The cast also featured Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige and Lionel Atwill. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures as part of a long-running series featuring the comic duo. Plot Tommy...
Ride ‘Em Cowboy is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown, Ella Fitzgerald (in her first film appearance), Samuel S. Hinds, Douglas Dumbrille, Morris Ankrum, and directed by Arthur Lubin. The film focuses on Abbott and Costello as they...
Lucky Jordan is a 1942 film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Alan Ladd in his first leading role, Helen Walker in her film debut and Sheldon Leonard. The screenplay concerns a self-centered gangster who tangles with Nazi spies. Plot Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is gangster living in New York...
The blood of a wolf he placed in the veins of a man… and created a monster such as the world has never known! A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories – and exact revenge. Director: Sam Newfield...
See him pit his terror against Japan’s treacherous agents in the U.S.A.! A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone’s true motives and...
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands. Director: Roy William Neill Writers: Edward T. Lowe Jr., Scott Darling Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill Genre: Classics, Cult Film, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Adventure Sherlock Holmes and the...
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon DK Classics
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror DK Classics
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter. Eyes in the Night DK Classics
Aristocratic Prudence Cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the WAFs. After she enlists, a fellow WAF sets her up on a blind date with handsome but moody Clive Briggs. Prudence learns that Clive is a deserter, but still loves him and senses that he will eventually prove himself a...
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his...
The Panther’s Claw is a 1942 American film directed by William Beaudine. It is a loose sequel to two Columbia Pictures films of the 1930s The Night Club Lady and The Circus Queen Murder which had featured Adolphe Menjou as Thatcher Colt. #ClassicMovies Licence Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)...
In November 1941, American news photographer Johnny ‘Bugsy’ Williams manages to escape from the Japanese and finds himself back in Burma where he meets the beautiful Miss Haoli Young. Johnny is also a flyer and his friend Shorty McGuire is after him to join the Flying Tigers. He could make...
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927. DK Classics
Moontide is a 1942 American romantic drama with elements of a thriller. It was produced by Mark Hellinger and directed by Archie Mayo, who took over direction after the initial director Fritz Lang left the project early in the shooting schedule. The screenplay was written by John O’Hara and Nunnally...
Rings on Her Fingers is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney. The screenplay concerns a poor man who gets mistaken for a millionaire and is swindled out of his life savings. Plot Susan Miller works as a girdle salesgirl in...
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. Lady for a Night DK Classics
In 1942, Hollywood shifted to more patriotic films but American science fiction produced mostly mad scientist films and sequels. Films out of France and Hungary pushed the boundaries and explored time travel on film. Greetings! Thanks for tuning in! I hope you enjoyed the content as much as I enjoyed...
Nightclub performers (The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis) do Army shows with Harry James and His Music Makers. Director: Edward F. Cline Writers: Edmond Kelso, Edward James Stars: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis Genres: Classics, Comedy, Romance, Musical, War Private Buckaroo Cult Cinema Classics
The Mystery of Marie Roget is a 1942 mystery film starring Patric Knowles. The story was adapted from the short story “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1842. The film, directed by Phil Rosen and produced by Universal Pictures, is set in 1889. Plot In...
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard, with a supporting cast featuring Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Susan Hayward and Charles Bickford. DeMille’s second Technicolor production, the film is based...
A discussion about this year in cinematic history would be severely compromised if no mention were made of 1942’s timeless classic CASABLANCA. The film went through various stages to wind up as it did. The roles played by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman were intended for Ronald Reagan and Ann...
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