Subgenre Sampler
Journey into Fear (1942)- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles… - Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey. Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon - An unabashed patriotic war drama, so effective in that capacity it garnered political commendation as well as six Oscars, including Best Picture and…
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Hugh Williams - Brisk war–thriller about how a six man British aircrew must find their way back to England across the Occupied Netherlands. Raised above the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cottage to Let (1941)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills… - Brit thriller focusing on an inventor in the business of bomb testing for the Air Ministry, whose supposedly innocent domestic staff is riddled with…
Dive Bomber (1941)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn - The life and duties of a navy doctor turned flight surgeon entering WW2 with a dashing Errol Flynn. Notable for top–flight aerial sequences.
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