Other films from 1942

Superman - Destruction Inc
1942 - mins

Lois and Clarke are undercover at the Metropolis Munitions Works, where dirty deeds are afoot. Can Lois foil the saboteurs on her own, or will she wind up gagged and bound - again! - and needing the man with the big red cape to come to her rescue? »

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Superman - Eleventh Hour
1942 - mins

On overseas duty in the Japanese city of Yokohama, Superman joins himself to the American war effort, hitting the Japanese military industry where it hurts. Until, that is, the Japanese get miffed and decide to put Lois in front of a firing squad. »

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The Battle Of Midway
1942 - mins

Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, director John Ford was actually injured during filming. Ford weaves voiceover and music into the real footage of the battle, shaping the material to show the conflict as he saw it, and moulding these elements into a narrative »

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Superman - Electric Earthquake
1942 - mins

A fanatical Native American scientist demands the return of Manhattan Island to his people or he will unleash artificially created earthquakes upon the city. Lois Lane investigates and is captured by our villan. Naturally, Superman saves the day. »

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American Empire
1942 - mins

Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a western special from Hopalong Cassidy producer Harry Pop Sherman. Set during the Reconstruction period, the film stars Richard Dix and Preston S. Foster as Dan Taylor and Paxton Bryce, two gallant Civil War heroes join forces to build a cattle empire in Texas, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other. »

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The Corpse Vanishes
1942 - mins

The Corpse Vanishes is one of the more deliciously outrageous horror exercises of the 1940s. Bela Lugosi, as hammy as ever, stars as Dr. Lorenz, a European horticulturist who wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. »

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Jungle Book
1942 - mins

Jungle Book is an American color 1942 action adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling classic story, The Jungle Book. The story is based around Mowgli, the baby boy abandoned in the jungle, and found by a panther who takes the child to a family of wolves, who will keep him safe, well-cared for and loved. But when a vicious tiger comes around threatening the boy, it becomes clear that the child must leave the animal kingdom and find his place among a species he has never known, human beings. »

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Hitler Dead or Alive
1942 - mins

A wealthy man offers a million dollars to whoever captures Adolf Hitler dead or alive. A group of gangsters take him up on this offer and after hijacking a Canadian Air Force plane are dropped into Germany. Their delusions about Hitler being just another cheap crook are shattered when they discover that knocking off Hitler wouldn't necessarily bring about the end of the war and they must decide what's more important: lining their pocketbooks or letting the military do their job. »

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Why We Fight - Prelude To War
1942 - mins

Prelude to War (1942) was the first film of Frank Capra's the Why We Fight propaganda film series and won the 1942 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. World War II is introduced in black and white terms, with Henry Wallace's quote "This is a fight between a free world and a slave world" pictorialized with the "free world" of the Allies as a brightly-illuminated planet and the "slave world" of the Axis Powers as a planet deep in shadow. »

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