1942 Movies

A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobiliza...

A movie about the history of the Gustavsberg porcelain company.

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."

Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determin...

Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losang...

Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for...

Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger?

Fortunato is a loser, a family man, who has lost his job and tries his luck in all the trades he finds. However, it seems that his name —that means “f...

The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the...

Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of...

A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.

After Pearl Harbor Lt. James Stewart narrated this film to rouse American support for the war.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.