Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.

The Glass Key

1942

English

7.0

♡ 10

88%

Stuart Heisler Director

Margaret Hayes as Eloise Matthews

Norma Varden as Henrys' Dinner Guest

Dane Clark as Henry Sloss

Louis Jean Heydt as Man watching dice throw

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

The Goose Steps Out

1942

English

6.5

♡ 5

33%

Action

Comedy

ealing

Basil Dearden Director

Julien Mitchell as Gen. Von Goltz

Barry Morse as Kurt

John Williams as Maj. Bishop

Walter Gotell as SS Guard

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

My Gal Sal

1942

English

6.1

♡ 7

43%

Irving Cummings Director

Terry Moore as Carrie Dreiser

Mary Stewart as Dancer / Singer

Frank Ferguson as Loud Customer

Edgar Dearing as Policeman

Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day

Stagecoach Buckaroo

1942

English

5.8

♡ 7

95%

Ray Taylor Director

Herman Hack as Barfly

Art Dillard as Henchman

Henry Hall as Joseph Denton

Anne Nagel as Nina Kincaid

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

The Old Chisholm Trail

1942

English

5.6

♡ 5

95%

Elmer Clifton Director

Mady Correll as Belle Turner

Johnny Mack Brown as Dusty Gardner

Johnny Bond as Johnny

Scoop Martin as Rancher

Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.

Syncopation

1942

English

6.3

♡ 4

38%

William Dieterle Director

Adolphe Menjou as George Latimer

Sonny Bupp as Newsboy

Frank Jenks as Smiley Jackson

Walter Baldwin as Tom Jones

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

In Which We Serve

1942

English

7.2

♡ 4

90%

75%

Action

based on a true story

Noel Coward Director

Daniel Massey as Bobby Kinross

Noel Coward as Capt. E.V. Kinross R.N. - Captain 'D'

Joyce Carey as Mrs. Kath Hardy

Richard Attenborough as Young Stoker

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

Lady for a Night

1942

English

6.0

♡ 5

40%

Leigh Jason Director

Martin Turner as Black Attendant

Forbes Murray as Defense Attorney

Pierre Watkin as District Attorney Logan

William A. Boardway as Juror

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

Terror House

1942

English

6.2

♡ 6

33%

Leslie Arliss Director

Tucker McGuire as Doris

Wilfrid Lawson as Jim Sturrock

Joyce Howard as Marian Ives

James Mason as Stephen Deremid

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 Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

1942

English

6.5

♡ 10

43%

Arthur Lubin Director

Eddie Hall as Cowhand Sitting on Train

Arthur Tovey as Dancer

Douglass Dumbrille as Jake Rainwater

Samuel S. Hinds as Sam Shaw

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Pardon My Sarong

1942

English

6.8

♡ 8

55%

Erle C. Kenton Director

Irving Bacon as Gas Station Proprietor

George Chandler as George Peabody

William A. Boardway as Nightclub Patron

Maria Montez as (scenes deleted)

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Le mariage de Chiffon

1942

French

6.3

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

Claude Autant-Lara Director

Jean Boissemond as

Max Doria as

André Luguet as Le duc d'Aubières

Bernard Blier as Le garçon d'hôtel

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...

Nothing But Nerves

1942

English

5.8

♡ 4

Action

Comedy

Leslie M. Roush Director

Phyllis Kennedy as Maid

Robert Benchley as Mr. Benchley

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerved.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

English

7.6

♡ 12

93%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Ian Wolfe as Dentist

Tom Conway as Man

Sidney D'Albrook as Man in Store

Forrester Harvey as Mr. Huggins

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

Italian

6.3

♡ 5

60%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Achille Majeroni as Il governatore

Lina Marengo as La signora Colombelli

Vittorio De Sica as Nino Bixio

Fausto Guerzoni as Tiepolo, Il guardiano del convento

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

This Gun for Hire

1942

English

7.4

♡ 12

94%

Frank Tuttle Director

Frank Ferguson as Albert Baker

Harry Harvey as Passenger

Patricia Farr as Ruby

Kenneth Gibson as Tour Group Member

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.