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The Squawkin' Hawk
The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 7minutes
Directed by Chuck Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Rating64% 3.233973.233973.233973.233973.23397
Smart Alecks
Smart Alecks (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 1h7
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Stanley Clements, Ernie Morrison
Rating56% 2.807042.807042.807042.807042.80704
Hank Salko (Gabriel Dell), a member of the Eastside youth gang in New York, is initiated into the world of adult crime when two gangsters, Mike (Joe Kirk) and Butch Brocalli (Maxie Rosenbloom), hire him to stand watch while they rob a bank. When Hank tries to share some of his ill-gotten money with the East Side Kids, they suspend him from the club, and Hank is then arrested by Joe Reagan (Roger Pryor), the local policeman.
Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Manhattan (1942) on 5 august 1942
, 2h7
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson
Rating72% 3.640823.640823.640823.640823.64082
Based on the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González's novel, Historia de un frac ("Story of a Tailcoat"), the stories follow a black formal tailcoat as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 1h26
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Richard Ney, Jean Rogers, Sara Allgood, Spring Byington
Rating66% 3.338323.338323.338323.338323.33832
This script must be run from the command line
Invisible Agent
Invisible Agent (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 1h21
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Comedy, Adventure, Spy, Horror, Romance
Themes Spy films, Politique, Films based on science fiction novels, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Invisibilité
Actors Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, Albert Bassermann, J. Edward Bromberg
Rating59% 2.999622.999622.999622.999622.99962
The grandson of Dr. Jack Griffin, the original invisible man, has emigrated to the United States and now runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond (Jon Hall). In his shop he is confronted by four armed men who reveal that they know his true identity. One of the men, Conrad Stauffer (Cedric Hardwicke), is a lieutenant general of the S.S., while a second, Baron Ikito (Peter Lorre), is Japanese. They offer to pay for the invisibility formula and threaten amputation if it is not revealed. Griffin manages to escape with the formula in his hands.
Parachute Nurse
Parachute Nurse (1942) on 6 august 1942
, 1h3
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Marguerite Chapman, William Wright, Louise Allbritton, Frank Sully, Shirley Patterson, Douglas Wood
Rating56% 2.8010452.8010452.8010452.8010452.801045
A cross section of American nurses enlists in the Aerial Nurse Corps during World War II. The film shows their training including being dropped by parachute to provide aid to wounded soldiers.
Pardon My Sarong
Pardon My Sarong (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 1h24
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Rating67% 3.396523.396523.396523.396523.39652
Tommy Layton (Robert Paige), a wealthy bachelor, rents a city bus to take him from Chicago to Los Angeles. Once there he intends to participate in a yacht race to Hawaii. The bus drivers, Algy (Bud Abbott) and Wellington (Lou Costello), are chased by a detective (William Demarest) hired by the bus company. They escape capture by driving the bus off a fishing pier. Layton, who is now on his yacht, rescues them and hires them as his crew for the race. A competitor of his in the race, Joan Marshall (Virginia Bruce) has fired his original crew without his knowledge. He enacts revenge by kidnapping her and taking her along on the race.
Blondie for Victory
Blondie for Victory (1942) on 6 august 1942
, 1h11
Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Stuart Erwin, Jonathan Hale, Edward Gargan
Rating61% 3.0511653.0511653.0511653.0511653.051165
Blondie Bumstead forms a civilian defense group, ”Housewives of America”, by persuading her housewife neighbors to join. But the forming of the group creates trouble in her own household.
A-Haunting We Will Go
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) on 7 august 1942
, 1h8
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Elisha Cook, Jr., Sheila Ryan, Don Costello, Edward Gargan
Rating61% 3.097573.097573.097573.097573.09757
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two hobos roaming the Arizona countryside. After being arrested for loitering, they spend a night in jail in town. When they are released the day after they are ordered to leave town immediately. Since the men lack every kind of transportation, they come up with the desperate idea of traveling as escort to a coffin and an undertaker’s railroad transport of a corpse out of town to Dayton, Ohio. The corpse will still be in the coffin, of course, but they at least get the transport for free.