Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Goose Steps Out, The (1942)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Feat. Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Charles Hawtrey…
- British war comedy with Hay as a bumbling teacher conveniently turns out to be the double of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime…
Hitchcock Collection Volume 1 (Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955), Psycho) (1942-1960)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Excellently–presented box–set with eight of Hitch's best early suspensers.
Holiday Inn (1942)
- Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby
- Love–triangle musical scored by Irving Berlin has Astaire dancing without Rogers and Bing Crosby unleashing 'White Christmas'.
I Married A Witch (1942)
- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Robert Benchley…
- Charming screwball comedy sees a smoldering Veronica Lake play a reincarnated witch, who torments Fredric March's uptight politician for being a…
In Which We Serve (1942)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles…
- WW2 drama contrasts the service lives of a destroyer crew with their memories of back home. Powerful film won an Oscar for writer, director and star…
Journey into Fear (1942)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…
- Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey.
Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Jungle Book (1942)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sabu
- Live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's novel with Sabu as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves who attempts to adapt to human custom.
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf…
- Spencer Tracy plays a top–notch reporter who falls in love with the widow of the deceased national hero he's assigned to investigate. A tight…
Kings Row (1942)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan…
- Celebrated and infamous melodrama of the titular smalltown, a seemingly placid American community, around which insanity, poverty and sadism hover…
Les Visiteurs Du Soir (1942)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Marie Dea, Fernand Ledoux…
- Two of the Devil's henchmen are dispatched to a fairytale–like 15th century castle with an eye to corrupting its inhabitants, especially a pair…