Best Films Of 1942

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

A young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.

A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Sportswriter Sam Craig and columnist Tess Harding, with the same New York newspaper, overcome their initial antagonism, fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when he comes to resent her hectic lifestyle.

An escaped prisoner must prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with help from a spirited schoolteacher.

Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.

When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.