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Subgenre Sampler

 
SaboteurSaboteur (1942) Recommended
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane
Robert Cummings dodges shady conspirators and skeptical patriots as the wrong man thought to be responsible for some anti–American sabotage.…
Secret MissionSecret Mission (1942)
Dir. Harold French
Feat. Michael Wilding, James Mason, Hugh Williams
Wartime propaganda piece focused around four Brit intelligence officers on a mission in France to gauge the force of the German defences while being…
Spoilers, TheSpoilers, The (1942)
Dir. Ray Enright
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
A gold–rush Western set in Alaska in which gold–miner John Wayne tussles it out with corrupt commissioner Randolph Scott over his claims…
Tales of ManhattanTales of Manhattan (1942) Recommended
Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Talk of the Town, TheTalk of the Town, The (1942)
Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur
Vaguely radical factory–worker Cary Grant goes on the run after being framed for arson and manslaughter by a corrupt establishment, and hides…
This Gun for HireThis Gun for Hire (1942)
Dir. Frank Tuttle
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate,…
Thunder BirdsThunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942)
Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton
Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
Thunder RockThunder Rock (1942)
Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen
Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
To Be or Not to BeTo Be or Not to Be (1942) Recommended
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard
Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Went the Day Well?Went the Day Well? (1942) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…

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