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Subgenre Sampler
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- 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, 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 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 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 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 Be (1942)- 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? (1942)
- 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…
Woman of the Year (1942)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's endearing screen partnership ignited as disparate newspaper reporters whose personalities at once clash and…
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston - An energy–filled and well–loved musical biography of Show–Biz King George Cohan, played by James Cagney.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)- Dir. William A Seiter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth - Gently funny musical with Fred Astaire pursuing Rita Hayworth.
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