Top Movies of 1942


The top movies of 1942 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

21. In This Our Life

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke
Plot: A young woman leaves her fiancee and runs off with her sister's husband. But the brief affair ends badly, and she is forced to return after his suicide. Her sister is just about to marry her former fiancee - and she will stop at nothing to get him back.

22. The Palm Beach Story

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Preston Sturges
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick
Plot: An inventor/architect thinks he has the next big design - but getting the idea off the ground has cost him most of his money and put a strain on his marriage. Facing eviction, his wife bumps into an older, wealthy businessman who offers her $700 to get out of their current debt. When she tells this to her husband, he doesn't believe her - leading her to leave for Palm Beach and a divorce. But her ultimate plan is to land her own multi-millionaire, in order to solve all their problems.

23. Tarzan's New York Adventure

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey, Charles Bickford, Chill Wills
Plot: When their son, Boy, is kidnapped for a circus, Tarzan and Jane travel to New York to rescue him.

24. The Glass Key

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Heisler
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, Joseph Calleia

25. Johnny Eager

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Plot: The District Attorney's daughter falls in love with a gangster the D.A. is trying to put away.

26. A-Haunting We Will Go

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante, Sheila Ryan, John Shelton, Don Costello

27. Somewhere I'll Find You

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Actors: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick

28. Flying Tigers

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones, Mae Clarke

29. Random Harvest

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers, Rhys Williams
Plot: a gentle love story about a WW1 vet with a case of amnesia and the woman who finds him after he's ecaped from the asylum. Total classic chick filck.

30. Jungle Book

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Zoltan Korda
Actors: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O'Rourke

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