1942 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1942

Notable Films Released in 1942

U.S.A unless stated

A

• Across the Pacific, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor
• A-Haunting We Will Go, starring Laurel and Hardy
• Ala-Arriba! - (Portugal)
• Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris, Adele Mara, and Richard Lane
• Alibi, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason - (Britain)
• American Empire, starring Richard Dix
• Andy Hardy's Double Life, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Aniki-Bóbó - (Portugal)
• Arabian Nights, starring Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez

b

• El Baisano Jalil - (Mexico)
• Bambi
• The Battle of Midway, documentary directed by John Ford
• The Big Shot, starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Big Street, starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball
• The Black Sheep of Whitehall, starring Will Hay and John Mills - (Britain)
• The Black Swan, starring Tyrone Power
• Bullet Scars, starring Regis Toomey

C

• Captains of the Clouds, starring James Cagney
• Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz (Oscar winner), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains
• Cat People, starring Simone Simon and Tom Conway
• Commandos Strike at Dawn, starring Paul Muni
• The Corpse Vanishes, starring Bela Lugosi
• The Courtship of Andy Hardy, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

DEF

• Derailed (Afsporet) - (Denmark)
• The Devil's Envoys (Les Visiteurs du Soir), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty - (France)
• Eagle Squadron, directed by Arthur Lubin
• The First of the Few, directed by Leslie Howard, starring Howard and David Niven - (Britain)
• The Fleet's In, starring Dorothy Lamour and William Holden
• Flying Tigers, starring John Wayne
• The Foreman Went to France, starring Clifford Evans and Tommy Trinder - (Britain)
• For Me and My Gal, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
• Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro passi fra le nuvole) - (Italy)

G

• Un Garibaldino al Convento, directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• The Gaucho War (La guerra gaucha) - (Argentina)
• Gentleman Jim, a biopic of boxer James J. Corbett, starring Errol Flynn
• George Washington Slept Here, starring Jack Benny
• The Ghost of Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Glass Key, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
• The Goose Steps Out, starring Will Hay - (Britain)
• The Great King (Der große König) - (Germany)
• The Great Man's Lady, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Barbara Stanwyck
• The Great Impersonation, directed by John Rawlins, starring Ralph Bellamy

HIJK

• Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
• Historia de un gran amor (A Great Love Story) - (Mexico)
• I Married a Witch, starring Veronica Lake and Fredric March
• In Old California, starring John Wayne
• In This Our Life, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
• In Which We Serve, directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, starring Coward and John Mills - (Britain)
• Invisible Agent, starring Jon Hall
• Johnny Eager, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner
• Jungle Book, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu
• Kid Glove Killer, the directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann
• The Kids Grow Up (Los Chicos crecen) - (Argentina)
• Kings Row, starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains
• Kokoda Front Line!, an Academy Award winning documentary film - (Australia)

L

• Larceny, Inc., starring Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
• Listen to Britain, propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings - (Britain)
• The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, starring Linda Darnell

M

• The Magnificent Ambersons, directed by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello
• The Major and the Minor, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
• The Male Animal, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia De Havilland
• The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Jimmy Durante
• The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (El hombre que se quiso matar) - (Spain)
• Miss Annie Rooney, starring Shirley Temple
• Moontide, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino
• Mrs. Miniver, directed by William Wyler, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
• The Mummy's Tomb, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L'Assassin habite au 21), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
• My Favorite Blonde, starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll
• My Gal Sal, starring Rita Hayworth
• My Sister Eileen, starring Rosalind Russell

NOP

• The Next of Kin, starring Mervyn Johns - (Britain)
• Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
• One of Our Aircraft is Missing, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - (Britain)
• The Palm Beach Story, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallée
• Pardon My Sarong, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• O Pátio das Cantigas (The Courtyard of Songs) - (Portugal)
• The Pied Piper, starring Monty Woolley and Roddy McDowall
• Pittsburgh, starring John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, Shemp Howard
• Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth

QR

• Random Harvest, starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
• Reap the Wild Wind, starring John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland
• Reunion in France, starring Joan Crawford
• Ride 'Em Cowboy, starring Abbott and Costello
• Rings on Her Fingers, starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney
• Rio Rita, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Road to Morocco, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
• The Rock of the Souls (El Peñón de las Ánimas) - (Mexico)
• Roxie Hart, starring Ginger Rogers

S

• Saboteur, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings
• Saludos Amigos, an animated film by Disney
• Somewhere I'll Find You, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
• Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
• Song of the Islands, a Darryl F. Zanuck production starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature
• Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers and George 'Gabby' Hayes
• The Spoilers, starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne
• Sweater Girl, starring Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, and Betty Jane Rhodes
• Springtime in the Rockies, starring Betty Grable

TUV

• Tales of Manhattan, directed by Julien Duvivier with an all-star cast
• The Talk of the Town, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
• Tarzan's New York Adventure, starring Johnny Weissmuller
• Tennessee Johnson, starring Van Heflin and Ruth Hussey
• There's One Born Every Minute, starring Hugh Herbert and Peggy Moran
• This Above All, starring Tyrone Power
• This Gun for Hire, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd
• This Was Paris, starring Ann Dvorak - (Britain)
• Thunder Rock, starring Michael Redgrave and James Mason - (Britain)
• To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Benny and (in her last film) Carole Lombard
• Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, starring Richard Dix
• Tortilla Flat, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
• Uncensored, directed by Anthony Asquith - (Britain)
• The Undying Monster, starring James Ellison
• Valentin the Good (Valentin Dobrotivý), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)

WXYZ

• Wake Island, starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston
• Went the Day Well?, directed by Cavalcanti, starring Leslie Banks and Mervyn Johns - (Britain)
• Who Done It?, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Woman of the Year, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney
• The Young Mr. Pitt, directed by Carol Reed, starring Robert Donat - biopic of William Pitt the Younger - (Britain)
• You Were Never Lovelier, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth