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Subgenre Sampler

 
To Be or Not to BeTo Be or Not to Be (1942) Recommended
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?Went the Day Well? (1942) Aro Favourite
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 YearWoman of the Year (1942) Recommended
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 DandyYankee 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 LovelierYou Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Dir. William A Seiter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth
Gently funny musical with Fred Astaire pursuing Rita Hayworth.
49th Parallel49th 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 FireBall 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, TheBig Store, The (1941)
Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Marx Bros. let loose in a department store.
Black Cat, TheBlack 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 SandBlood 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…

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