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TopTenREVIEWS top movie of the year 1942 is Casablanca.
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| 51 |  | Flying Tigers (1942) |  2.4748 5 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$4.02
| Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought ...more about Flying Tigers starring John Wayne and John Carroll |
| 52 |  | Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) | 2.4268 6 reviews | NA |
$41.37
| Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and ...more about Tarzan's New York Adventure starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan | |
| 53 |  | In This Our Life (1942) | 2.4261 7 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | A young woman (Stanley Timberlake) dumps her fiancée (Craig Fleming) and runs off with her sister's ...more about In This Our Life starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland |
| 54 |  | Pied Piper, The (1942) | 2.3835 5 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Englishman Mr Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. ...more about Pied Piper starring Monty Woolley and Anne Baxter |
| 55 |  | Mad Monster, The (1942) | 2.3804 3 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$4.95
| Dr. Cameron (George Zucco) has succeeded in his expierments with a serum which will turn a man into ...more about Mad Monster starring Johnny Downs and George Zucco |
| 56 |  | Gentleman Jim (1942) | 2.3728 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Sports |
$12.41
| The biography of famed boxer James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the colorful Irish-American fighter ...more about Gentleman Jim starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith |
| 57 |  | Captains of the Clouds (1942) | 2.3652 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$8.68
| Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of ...more about Captains of the Clouds starring James Cagney and Brenda Marshall |
| 58 |  | Larceny, Inc. (1942) | 2.3561 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Comedy | N/A | Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. When they soon discover ...more about Larceny starring Edward G. Robinson and William B. Davidson |
| 59 | | Take a Letter, Darling (1942) | 2.3561 1 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to ...more about Take a Letter starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray |
| 60 | | Strange Case of Doctor Rx, The (1942) | 2.3287 1 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery | N/A | After five men previously acquitted of various criminal charges are murdered by a mysterious ...more about Strange Case of Doctor Rx starring Patric Knowles and Lionel Atwill |
| 61 |  | Roxie Hart (1942) | 2.3256 3 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$3.99
| To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But ...more about Roxie Hart starring Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou |
| 62 | | Desperate Journey (1942) | 2.2967 6 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable ...more about Desperate Journey starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan |
| 63 |  | Mummy's Tomb, The (1942) | 2.2885 8 reviews | NA |
$9.99
| A high priest travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those ...more about Mummy's Tomb starring Dick Foran and John Hubbard | |
| 64 |  | Moon and Sixpence, The (1942) | 2.2876 6 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker ...more about Moon and Sixpence starring George Sanders and Doris Dudley |
| 65 | | Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) | 2.2812 6 reviews | NA | N/A | A young man visits his fiancée in a remote French villa where her scientist father (George Zucco) ...more about Dr. Renault's Secret starring Lynne Roberts and George Zucco | |
| 66 |  | Johnny Eager (1942) | 2.2784 4 reviews | NA | Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and ...more about Johnny Eager starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner |
| 67 |  | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) | 2.2647 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$14.25
| England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi ...more about Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce |
| 68 |  | Black Dragons (1942) | 2.2586 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$1.99
| A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are ...more about Black Dragons starring Bela Lugosi and Joan Barclay |
| 69 |  | Man with Two Lives (1942) |  2.2465 1 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.99
| Phillip Bennett (Edward Norris) and Louise Hammond (Eleanor Lawson), engaged to be married, are ...more about Man with Two Lives starring Marlo Dwyer and Eleanor Lawson |
| 70 |  | Journey for Margaret (1942) | 2.2373 2 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an ...more about Journey for Margaret starring Robert Young and Laraine Day |
| 71 | | Night Has Eyes, The (1942) | 2.2343 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Mystery | N/A | Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend ...more about Night Has Eyes starring Wilfrid Lawson and Mary Clare |
| 72 |  | Boogie Man Will Get You, The (1942) | 2.2236 2 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy |
$8.41
| Crazy professor Nathaniel Billings is working on creating a race of supermen in the basement of a ...more about Boogie Man Will Get You starring Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre |
| 73 |  | Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) | 2.2191 5 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy |
$8.89
| Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son ...more about Star Spangled Rhythm starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope |
| 74 | | Arabian Nights (1942) | 2.2099 4 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$5.60
| Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells ...more about Arabian Nights starring Sabu (I) and Jon Hall |
| 75 |  | Living Ghost, The (1942) | 2.2099 1 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery |
$15.30
| Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy ...more about Living Ghost starring James Dunn and Joan Woodbury |
| 76 |  | Broadway (1942) | 2.2008 1 reviews | NA | Crime, Musical | N/A | ...more about Broadway starring George Raft and Janet Blair |
| 77 | | Man's World, A (1942) | 2.1917 1 reviews | NA | N/A | ...more about Man's World starring William Wright and Marguerite Chapman | |
| 78 | | My Gal Sal (1942) | 2.1917 1 reviews | NA | Biography, Musical | N/A | Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as ...more about My Gal Sal starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature |
| 79 | | Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) | 2.1917 1 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance | N/A | Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew ...more about Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney |
| 80 |  | Captain Midnight (1942) | 2.1643 2 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$13.29
| ...more about Captain Midnight starring Dorothy Short and James Craven |
| 81 | | Kill or Be Killed (1942) | 2.1369 1 reviews | NA | Short | N/A | ...more about Kill or Be Killed |
| 82 | | Mad Doctor of Market Street, The (1942) | 2.1278 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a ...more about Mad Doctor of Market Street starring Una Merkel and Lionel Atwill |
| 83 | | Foreman Went to France, The (1942) | 2.1186 4 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, War | N/A | Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent ...more about Foreman Went to France starring Tommy Trinder and Constance Cummings |
| 84 | | Glass Key, The (1942) | 2.1118 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | The plot is very similar to that of Miller's Crossing. Based on the book by Dashiell Hammett, a ...more about Glass Key starring Brian Donlevy and Veronica Lake |
| 85 |  | Who Done It? (1942) | 2.1095 3 reviews | NA | Mystery, Comedy |
$12.95
| Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio ...more about Who Done It? starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello |
| 86 |  | All Through the Night (1942) | 2.1072 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Comedy |
$39.98
| Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He ...more about All Through the Night starring Humphrey Bogart and Conrad Veidt |
| 87 |  | A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) | 2.1064 3 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$22.69
| The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead ...more about A-Haunting We Will Go starring Oliver Hardy and Dante (I) |
| 88 | | Jasper and the Haunted House (1942) | 2.1004 1 reviews | NA | Animation, Short | N/A | ...more about Jasper and the Haunted House |
| 89 |  | Went the Day Well? (1942) | 2.0973 4 reviews | NA | War, Thriller |
$54.01
| The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted ...more about Went the Day Well? starring Leslie Banks and C.V. France |
| 90 | | First of the Few, The (1942) | 2.0821 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Biography | N/A | By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his ...more about First of the Few starring Leslie Howard and Rosamund John |
| 91 | | Showdown (1942) | 2.0638 1 reviews | NA | Crime, Animation, Short |
$15.52
| ...more about Showdown |
| 92 | | Castle in the Desert (1942) | 2.0608 3 reviews | NA | Mystery | N/A | Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated ...more about Castle in the Desert starring Sidney Toler and Richard Derr |
| 93 |  | Random Harvest (1942) | 2.0593 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| A veteran of World War I marries and settles happily into a tidy, humble life until an accident ...more about Random Harvest starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson |
| 94 | | George Washington Slept Here (1942) | 2.0547 3 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, ...more about George Washington Slept Here starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan |
| 95 | | Joan of Paris (1942) | 2.0547 1 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact ...more about Joan of Paris starring Paul Henreid and Laird Cregar |
| 96 | | Lady from Chungking (1942) | 2.0547 1 reviews | NA | War | N/A | In Japanese-occupied China, Madame Kwan Mei is the leader of a resistance organization based in a ...more about Lady from Chungking starring Anna May Wong and Harold Huber |
| 97 | | Quiet Please: Murder (1942) | 2.0547 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime | N/A | ...more about Quiet Please: Murder starring George Sanders and Gail Patrick |
| 98 | | Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, The (1942) | 2.0456 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | Edgar Allen Poe (John Shepperd) led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of ...more about Loves of Edgar Allan Poe starring Linda Darnell and Virginia Gilmore |
| 99 | | Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) | 2.0364 1 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure | N/A | US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of the islands near Pearl Harbor. He discovers that ...more about Don Winslow of the Navy starring Don Terry and John Litel |
| 100 |  | Spoilers, The (1942) | 2.0319 3 reviews | NA | Action, Western |
$5.66
| In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry ...more about Spoilers starring Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott |
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