1942 Movies

Popeye’s sailing out in the Pacific, spoiling for a fight with the Japanese. He comes across what looks a Japanese fishing boat, but, just before Popeye lets loose with the…

When police interfere with a reckless scientist’s experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears…

Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean, are cast away on a desert shore and hop a convenient camel to an Arabian…

In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would…

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the…

Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles…

In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.

Mr. Strauss, with the help of the forest animals, composes his greatest waltz.

Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl.

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine,…

The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse…

Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don’t like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But…

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for…

In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their “Flying R” ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard…

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Popeye’s unconventional torpedo-loading technique get him a mild punishment: he’s ordered to stand at attention. Just then, the enemy attacks. He remains at attention, even as a bomb throws…

In the 17th of the 24 films in Monogram’s “Range Buster” series, Texas ranch owner Conroy returns from Washington with an order for horses to be shipped to the Philippines….

A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family’s vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he…

After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown…

The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a…

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with…

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy’s womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan’s career…

When gang chief Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, “Doc” Rogers re-organizes the mob. Learning that Morgan has a son named Edward , living in the country with his…

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the “dope” takes his course. But winner…

The shooting and murder of two guest stars at the Shady Ridge Summer Theatre, operated by Joan Barry, threatens to close the musical “Fun For All.” To bolster the show,…

Documentary short detailing the American soldier’s part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation.

Aunt Emma Bates (Zasu Pitts), a spinster, visits the “Big Town” to see a boxing match participated in by Mickey O’Banion (Malcolm ‘Bud’ McTaggart), son of Emma’s old fiancé who…

In Japanese-occupied China, Madame Kwan Mei is the leader of a resistance organization based in a rural village. When two American airmen are shot down near the village, she makes…

A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier.

In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes…

Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form…

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of…

Linda Norton is instructed by her employer attorney to take young Bridget Potter, whose wealthy parents are engaged in a divorce suit, to an isolated country resort, to shelter the…

Donald has to work hard to save his garden and price-winning melons from a hungry Gopher.

A tour of the Azusa Zoo, whose only apparent employee is Porky Pig. We open with several sight gags: a Missing Lynx, the Tortoise and his Hair, and a Bum…

Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving…

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don’t seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer…