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Subgenre Sampler
Secret Mission (1942)- Dir. Harold French
Feat. Michael Wilding, James Mason, Hugh Williams - Wartime propaganda piece focused around four Brit intelligence officers on a mission in France to gauge the force of the German defences while being…
Secret Weapon, The (1942)- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill… - Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Silver Screen Collection Boxset (1942-1960)- 25 classics from the British and American golden age. – The African Queen – A Town Like Alice – Brief Encounter – Odd…
Spoilers, The (1942)- Dir. Ray Enright
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne - A gold–rush Western set in Alaska in which gold–miner John Wayne tussles it out with corrupt commissioner Randolph Scott over his claims…
Spy Smasher (1942)- Dir. William Whitney
Feat. Kane Richmond, Sam Flint, Marguerite Chapman - Wartime serial adapted from the comic strip has twin brothers protecting democracy from the needle–nosed Nazi spys. 12 instalments on one…
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers… - A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Talk of the Town, The (1942)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur - Vaguely radical factory–worker Cary Grant goes on the run after being framed for arson and manslaughter by a corrupt establishment, and hides…
This Gun for Hire (1942)- Dir. Frank Tuttle
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston… - Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate,…
Thunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton… - Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
Thunder Rock (1942)- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen… - Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
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