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The Fraeon Archive · The 1940s
19411943

1942

Shadows and rain — noir's decade, wartime cinema, and some of the most enduring stories ever put on film.

The films everyone saw

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Bambi

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

3.5

Bambi

1942

Holiday Inn

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.

3.5

Holiday Inn

1942

Cat People

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

3.5

Cat People

1942

Saludos Amigos

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.

2.9

Saludos Amigos

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

3.7

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942

Saboteur

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

3.4

Saboteur

1942

The Black Swan

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

3.2

The Black Swan

1942

To Be or Not to Be

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

3.9

To Be or Not to Be

1942

Mrs. Miniver

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

3.5

Mrs. Miniver

1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

3.5

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

Now, Voyager

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

3.7

Now, Voyager

1942

You Were Never Lovelier

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

3.5

You Were Never Lovelier

1942

I Married a Witch

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

3.4

I Married a Witch

1942

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.

2.9

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942

The Devil's Envoys

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

3.4

The Devil's Envoys

1942

Flying Tigers

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

3.1

Flying Tigers

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

3.7

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.

3.2

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942

Hidden gems of 1942loved by the few who found them

The Talk of the Town

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.

3.7

The Talk of the Town

1942

Random Harvest

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

3.7

Random Harvest

1942

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

3.6

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

1942

Donald's Snow Fight

It's snowed, and Donald Duck is going sledding. Meanwhile, his nephews have built a snowman at the bottom of the hill. Donald aims his sled at their snowman and demolishes it, so the boys get even by including a boulder in the bottom of their next snowman. This means war, so they retreat to opposing snow forts for battle.

3.6

Donald's Snow Fight

1942

Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

3.6

Gentleman Jim

1942

Went the Day Well?

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.

3.6

Went the Day Well?

1942

The Major and the Minor

Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.

3.6

The Major and the Minor

1942

The Palm Beach Story

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

3.5

The Palm Beach Story

1942

This Gun for Hire

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

3.5

This Gun for Hire

1942

There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

3.5

There Was a Father

1942

How to Play Baseball

Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.

3.5

How to Play Baseball

1942

Woman of the Year

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

3.5

Woman of the Year

1942

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L’étranger

Philosophical Novels · Murder

L’étranger

Albert Camus

1942

La Peste

Fiction · Plague

La Peste

Albert Camus

1942

Dead Souls

Fiction, historical, general · Russia (federation), fiction

Dead Souls

Николай Васильевич Гоголь

1942

The Bayonet

The Bayonet

United States Army

1942

The Body in the Library

Fiction · Mystery

The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie

1942

The Moving Finger

Fiction · Women detectives

The Moving Finger

Agatha Christie

1942

Five Little Pigs

Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character) · Private investigators

Five Little Pigs

Agatha Christie

1942

Statistics · Housing

Housing

United States. Bureau of the Census

1942

The Screwtape Letters

Fiction · Christian Apologetics

The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis

1942

The Moon is Down

War in fiction · Cities and towns in fiction

The Moon is Down

John Steinbeck

1942

Five on a Treasure Island

Children: Grades 4-6 · Famous Five (Fictitious characters)

Five on a Treasure Island

Enid Blyton

1942

The killer and the slain

English Horror tales · Fiction, horror

The killer and the slain

Hugh Walpole

1942

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Socialism · Democracy

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

1942

The Runaway Bunny

Madre e hijo · Picture books for children

The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown

1942

Pilote de guerre

World War, 1939-1945 · French Personal narratives

Pilote de guerre

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1942

Fear stalks the village

Ethel Lina White

1942

Put Out More Flags

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · English literature

Put Out More Flags

Evelyn Waugh

1942

A Brief History Of The United States

History · Histoire

A Brief History Of The United States

Allan Nevins

1942

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