The Tree in a Test Tube

1942

English

4.6

♡ 2

Charles McDonald Director

Pete Smith as Interlocutor

Lee Vickers as Narrator

Oliver Hardy as Ollie

Stan Laurel as Stan

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.

You Were Never Lovelier

1942

English

7.2

♡ 7

100%

William A. Seiter Director

Mary Field as Louise - the Acuña Maid

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

William A. Boardway as Wedding Guest

Larry Arnold as Wedding Guest

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

1942

English

6.4

♡ 6

53%

John Rawlins Director

Donald Stuart as Grady - Basement Dive Doorkeeper

Hillary Brooke as Jill Grandis - Driver

Thomas Gomez as Meade

Edgar Barrier as Voice of Terror

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.

Superman: Billion Dollar Limited

1942

English

7.0

♡ 5

Dave Fleischer Director

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman / Gangster

Julian Noa as Gangster

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

Superman: Electric Earthquake

1942

English

6.8

♡ 4

save the neighborhood

Sci-Fi

superhero

super power

Dave Fleischer Director

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator / Indian Scientist

Julian Noa as Perry White

A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!

Superman: Terror on the Midway

1942

English

6.4

♡ 4

Dave Fleischer Director

Lee Royce as Clark Kent / Superman

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Jack Mercer as Sideshow Barker

When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.

Superman: Volcano

1942

English

6.9

♡ 4

Dave Fleischer Director

Lee Royce as Clark Kent / Superman / Demolitions Expert #1

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator / Officer / Professor / Guard / Demolitions Expert #2

Julian Noa as Perry White

Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

Superman: Japoteurs

1942

English

6.2

♡ 5

Dave Fleischer Director

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Jack Mercer as Press Tour Guide

Sam Parker as (voice) (uncredited)

Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.

Superman: Eleventh Hour

1942

English

6.0

♡ 5

Dave Fleischer Director

Lee Royce as Clark Kent / Superman

Jack Mercer as Japanese Guard / Japanese Official / American Reporter

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.

Superman: The Bulleteers

1942

English

6.9

♡ 3

save the neighborhood

Sci-Fi

superhero

super power

Dave Fleischer Director

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman / Bulleteer

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator / Bulleteer

Max Smith as Various

Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!

Superman: The Magnetic Telescope

1942

English

7.0

♡ 4

save the neighborhood

Dave Fleischer Director

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman / Mad Scientist

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Julian Noa as Perry White / Police Officer

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

The Devil's Envoys

1942

French

7.2

♡ 9

100%

fiancé fiancée relationship

pact with the devil

Romance

seductress

woman disguised as a man

Marcel Carné Director

Marie Déa as Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud Arletty

Arletty as Dominique - un ménestrel

Simone Signoret as Extra

Roger Blin as Le montreur de monstres

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

Lady in a Jam

1942

English

6.2

♡ 3

Gregory La Cava Director

Lester Dorr as Carter's Assistant Manager

Samuel S. Hinds as Doctor Brewster

Irving Bacon as Motel Proprietor

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Young Man

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

All Through the Night

1942

English

7.1

♡ 5

100%

Vincent Sherman Director

Kenneth Gibson as Club Patron

Barton MacLane as Marty Callahan

William Hopper as Reporter

Ben Welden as Smitty

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Strangers in the House

1942

French

7.0

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

Henri Decoin Director

André Reybaz as Émile Manu

Paul Faivre as L'agent

Yvonne Scheffer as La Gourde

Martine Carol as Une spectatrice aux Assises

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.

La symphonie fantastique

1942

French

5.8

♡ 1

Biography

classical music

Drama

Christian-Jaque Director

Bernard Blier as Antoine Charbonnel

Jean-Louis Barrault as Hector Berlioz

Maurice Schutz as Niccolò Paganini

Jules Berry as Schlesinger

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.

Volshebnoye zerno

1942

Russian

6.6

♡ 3

Family

Fantasy

Fyodor Filippov Director

Oleg Bant as

Aleksei Kelberer as

Stepan Kayukov as

Vladimir Gribkov as

A fairytale about two kids who got a magic seed which can feed all the people...

Lucky Jordan

1942

English

6.4

♡ 3

Frank Tuttle Director

Lloyd Corrigan as Ernest Higgins

Paul Stanton as George Hunnicutt - Draft Official

Edward Earle as Government Courier with Briefcase

Helen Walker as Jill Evans

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942

English

6.1

♡ 12

73%

Erle C. Kenton Director

Colin Clive as Dr. Henry Frankenstein

Evelyn Ankers as Elsa Frankenstein

William Smith as Village Boy in Courtroom

Bela Lugosi as Ygor

Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.