Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard
- Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
- British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Woman of the Year (1942)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
- Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's endearing screen partnership ignited as disparate newspaper reporters whose personalities at once clash and…
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
- An energy–filled and well–loved musical biography of Show–Biz King George Cohan, played by James Cagney.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
- Dir. William A Seiter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth
- Gently funny musical with Fred Astaire pursuing Rita Hayworth.
49th Parallel (1941)
- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- A taut, effective actioner in which five German U–boat men become stranded off the Canadian coast and try to make it overland to the neutral…
Ball of Fire (1941)
- Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…
- Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Big Store, The (1941)
- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
- Marx Bros. let loose in a department store.
Black Cat, The (1941)
- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…
- A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Blood and Sand (1941)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth
- Steamy romantic tragedy with Tyrone Power as an accomplished but naive matador whose bull–ring heroics take a back–seat for brazen Rita…