Drama Movies of 1942
Casablanca
One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Reap the Wild Wind
Cecil B. DeMille's Technicolor historical spectacle Reap the Wild Wind was to have starred Gary Cooper, but Cooper's prior commitment to Goldwyn's Pride of the Yankees compelled DeMille to recast the leading role with John Wayne. ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Moontide
Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Mrs. Miniver
As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of the upper-class ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
The Pride of the Yankees
"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story of fabled first baseman Lou Gehrig. "If people want baseball, they go to the ballpark!" The story ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Orchestra Wives
In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Reunion in France
Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal, a leisurely period musical, represents the first on-screen dancing of MGM's new ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Random Harvest
At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Wildcat
One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of Oklahoma. With the help of his pal Chicopee Nevins (Elisha Cook Jr.), foresighted oil speculator Johnny Maverick ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Captains of the Clouds
James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Gentleman Jim
Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use of this skill. ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Unpublished Story
Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He returns to his job in a London ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
X Marks the Spot
X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and directed in rapid succession ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Lady Gangster
The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
They Raid by Night
Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, They Raid by Night is a PRC "special" dealing with the activities of the commandos in WWII. Lyle Talbot plays Capt. Robert Owen, the head of a three-man commando squad who ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Man from Headquarters
This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
Men of San Quentin
Director William "One Take" Beaudine puts his all-character-actor cast through their ... [ Drama movie - 1942 ]
La Virgen Morena
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