| Title |
Min. |
c | S | M | H | P | V | En | Ed |
| Affairs of Martha, The | 67 | b | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Army Surgeon | 63 | b | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Cairo | 101 | b | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Calling Dr. Gillespie | 84 | b | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Castle in the Desert | 63 | b | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Courtship of Andy Hardy, The | 95 | b | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Crossroads | 83 | b | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Eyes In the Night | 80 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Falcon Takes Over, The | 63 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Fingers at the Window | 81 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| 47 Ronin, The, Part 2 (Japanese) | 111 | b | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Gay Sisters, The | 110 | b | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Ghost of Frankenstein | 68 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Grand Central Murder | 74 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Great Man's Lady, The | 90 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| Hard Way, The | 109 | b | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | |
| Her Cardboard Lover | 93 | b | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Maisie Gets Her Man | 86 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Mokey | 88 | b | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| My Favorite Blonde | 78 | b | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Navy Comes Through, The | 82 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |
| Nazi Agent | 83 | b | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Panama Hattie | 80 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Pardon My Sarong | 83 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| Reunion in France | 99 | b | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Ride 'Em Cowboy | 85 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Rio Rita | 91 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Seven Days' Leave | 87 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Seven Sweethearts | 98 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Ship Ahoy | 95 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Song of the Islands | 75 | c | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Springtime in the Rockies | 91 | c | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Stand By For Action | 110 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Valley of the Sun | 78 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| War Against Mrs. Hadley, The | 86 | b | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Yank at Eton, A | 89 | b | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Maid Martha (Marsha Hunt) has written a book and was secretly married to a returning anthropologist (Richard Carlson), who brings home a fiancé (Frances Drake) to his father (Melville Cooper), mother (Spring Byington), and sister (Virginia Wiedler); but Martha fends off her publisher (Allyn Joslyn) and a suitor (Barry Nelson).
This comedy satirizes reactions to a maid writing a book
as people fear their private lives will be exposed.
A nurse (Jane Wyatt) going to the war recalls her experience in the first world war with a doctor (James Ellison) and a flyer (Kent Taylor), who had romanced her in school.
Dedication to the war effort transcends the rivalry for
a pretty doctor acting as a nurse at the front.
An American reporter (Robert Young) mistakenly suspects a movie star (Jeannette MacDonald) is a spy in this satire of Nazi saboteur movies.
Hollywood comments on itself rather ineptly, but the singing
of Ethel Waters is a highlight.
Insane Roy Todwell (Phil Brown) is in love with Marcia (Donna Reed); but when she delays marriage, he turns homicidal and wants to kill Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore); but a young psychiatrist (Philip Dorn) and Joe (Nat Pendleton) prevent it after other creepy murders.
This thriller lacks the human warmth of Dr. Kildare, because
Lew Ayres was blacklisted for being conscientiously opposed to
war.
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is summoned by Lucrezia Manderley (Lenita Lane) to the Mojave Desert, where wealthy Paul Manderley (Douglass Dumbrille) studies the Borgias. With a little help from his son (Victor Sen Yung) Chan solves a murder case involving poison.
Chan's son is on leave from the U. S. Army, showing the
distinction made between Japanese and Chinese during the war.
Judge James Hardy (Lewis Stone) asks Andy (Mickey Rooney) to take out the shy daughter Melodie (Donna Reed) of divorced parents, a duty made to order for the maturing young man. Andy precociously takes on a parental attitude toward his older sister Marian (Cecelia Parker) when she wants to wear a nightgown as a dress.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy (Fay Holden) find that their liberal
attitudes of letting their children make their own decisions give
them valuable lessons as they learn from their own mistakes.
Similar to the 1938 French film Carrefour, a diplomat (William Powell), newly married to Lucien (Hedy Lamarr) is blackmailed by Henri (Basil Rathbone) and Michelle (Claire Trevor) based on crimes he may have committed before his amnesia.
The contrived scheme fails as the criminals are caught in
their own trap. It is difficult to persuade a person of integrity
that he committed major crimes that he no longer remembers.
Blind detective Duncan MacLain (Edward Arnold) and his dog Friday help Norma Lawry (Ann Harding) who is concerned about her step-daughter Barbara (Donna Reed), discovering and solving a murder and a Nazi spy ring.
The evils of the Nazis are foiled by a man using his intelligence
and senses other than sight, showing that the good will triumph
even when it seems to be at a disadvantage.
Based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell My Lovely, a private detective (George Sanders) using wit and flirtation solves a murder with his frightened friend Goldly (Allen Jenkins) and a young reporter (Lynn Bari) for police inspector O'Hara (James Gleason).
This mystery is amusing if not realistic.
An actor (Lew Ayres) helps to prevent a woman (Laraine Day) from being murdered by an ax murderer and then helps the police to catch the man (Basil Rathbone) hypnotizing the men to do the murders.
This sinister drama reflects the current world war in which
millions of people were deluded into murdering each other. Ironically
actor Lew Ayres was one of the few who refused to participate
in such madness.
Based on events in 1702, the late Asano's chamberlain Oishi (Chojuro
Kawarasaki) leads the revenge against Kira and the self-disciplined
seppuku by which they punish themselves. Omino (Mieko Takamine)
dresses as a man to join her betrothed Isogai (Kunitaro Kawarazaki)
and joins in the ritual suicide.
This drama relects the samurai code of obedient military duty
and the fatalistic movement toward mass suicide that had a much
wider scope in the World War.
Based on Stephen Longstreet's novel, Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck) and her two sisters Evelyn (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Susanna (Nancy Coleman) try to hang on to their land in a large estate; but wealthy Barclay (George Brent) wants the property for development, and Evelyn tries to lure Gig Young away from Susanna.
Barclay's ambition reflects the building of Rockefeller
Center while Fiona is unable to resist the family destiny she
tried to hide.
Ygor (Bela Lugosi) takes the revived monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke); but he kills people and terrorizes Elsa Frankenstein (Evelyn Ankers), and once again Frankenstein gives him the wrong brain.
A crowd still fears the monster of science gone wrong; but
mob violence only brings him back to life.
Based on Sue MacVeigh's novel, a police detective (Sam Levene) questions a group of suspects, including a private detective (Van Heflin), who solves the case as various witnesses describe what happened to the murder victim Mida (Patricia Dane).
This escape entertainment keeps the audience guessing with
numerous characters with possible motives for murder.
Aged Hannah (Barbara Stanwyck) recalls how she ran off with Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea) in 1848 and met gambler Steely Edwards (Brian Donlevy), who helped her after Ethan left. Hannah tells a biographer (K. T. Stephens) how she helped Ethan become a great senator after he married again.
This sentimental drama reflects how women usually outlive
the men they helped to prosper.
Ruthless Helen (Ida Lupino) promotes the show business career of her younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie), driving Katherine's husband Albert (Jack Carson) out of her life and then becoming jealous of Albert's former partner Paul (Dennis Morgan) when he plans to marry Katherine.
This melodrama portrays how an ambitious woman can cause
quarrels that break up relationships.
Based on Jacques Deval's play, Consuelo (Norma Shearer) hires smitten Terry (Robert Taylor) to act as her lover in order to keep herself away from her fiancé Tony (George Sanders).
This romantic comedy satirizes a woman who has difficulty
controlling and being aware of her own subconscious desires. Norma
Shearer apparently may have subconsciously wanted to end her movie
career, because after rejecting the roles of Scarlet O'Hara and
Mrs. Miniver, she chose this script, which did poorly at the box
office and was her last film role.
Maisie (Ann Sothern) breaks up with her knife-throwing partner, works with building manager Pappy Goodring (Allen Jenkins), and joins young comic Hap Hixby (Red Skelton), who gets stage-fright before getting help from her in finding his stage presence.
Helpful Maisie once again keeps her spirits up despite her
troubles.
Little Mokey (Robert Blake) learns that his father (Dan Dailey) has married Anthea (Donna Reed). Mokey often gets into trouble, but he comes to love his new mother.
This story shows the child's view of learning about a stepmother.
A British spy (Madeleine Carroll) hides a metal scorpion on the coat of Vaudevillian Larry Haines (Bob Hope) to get it to Los Angeles without Nazi spies capturing it as they evade the law for the murders their adversaries commit.
This comedy satirizes spy thrillers but provides only escape
entertainment besides Hope.
Lt. Tom Sands (George Murphy) resigns from the Navy after gun-turret accident kills men and re-enlists, serving under Chief Michael Mallory (Pat O'Brien), whose sister Myra (Jane Wyatt) is in love with Tom. They fight Nazi ships on a merchant marine vessel.
This drama celebrates the role of the U. S. Navy in defending
shipping from attacks by German Navy ships.
German twin brothers (Conrad Veidt) in America disagree on politics. The bookseller Otto prefers America and kills his Nazi brother Hugo but takes his identity in order to expose the ring of spies.
This well made spy thriller has the audience hoping that
the good brother will not be caught by the evil spies as he risks
his life to foil their efforts to sabotage the American war effort.
In this Cole Porter musical based on a DeSylva-Fields play, sailors Red (Skelton), Rags (Ragland), and Rowdy (Ben Blue) try to help their friend Hattie (Ann Sothern), who has romantic troubles with Dick (Dan Dailey) and Leila Tree (Marsha Hunt), and they catch spies.
Good songs and comic buffoonery entertain amid a social-class
conflict that concludes with a patriotic finale.
Bus-drivers Algernon (Bud Abbott) and Wellington (Lou Costello) take a bus from Chicago to Los Angeles while evading Detective Kendall (William Demarest) with various devices. They are rescued from underwater by a small yacht and captured crew Joan (Virginia Bruce), ending up on an island with many pretty women and evil Dr. Varnoff (Lionel Atwill).
This silliness and music offer escape entertainment.
Michelle (Joan Crawford) and Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn) are in love when France is occupied by Nazis; he seems to be cooperating with them while she helps the American flyer Pat Talbot (John Wayne) escape back to the RAF with unexpected assistance from Schultz (Reginald Owen) as Gestapo head (John Carradine) tries to stop them.
This propaganda drama portrays the valiant French underground
struggling against the oppressive Nazis.
Duke (Bud Abbott) and Willoughby (Lou Costello) escape to the West, where they have fun learning about cows and Indians, while singer Bronco Bob (Dick Foran) tries to get the girl Anne (Anne Gwynne).
Their mayhem and fine music by Ella Fitzgerald and others
provide entertainment.
Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello) find themselves in Texas, where singing Rita (Kathryn Grayson) and haughty Lucette (Patricia Dane) compete for the love of singer Ricardo Mantera (John Carroll). Nazi spies led by Maurice (Tom Conway) satirize the usual propaganda plot.
Comic routines and singing lift this absurdity into the
entertainment zone.
Soldier Johnny Grey (Victor Mature) learns he has inherited $100,000, but the catch is he has to marry engaged Terry (Lucille Ball); so he tries to woo her.
Like a soldier's leave, this film is an entertaining diversion
from the patriotic war. Lucy's comedic skill and some songs help
salvage a silly plot.
Reporter Henry Taggart (Van Heflin) visits the hotel of Van Maaster (S. Z. Sakall) and meets his seven daughters, who try to marry him off to the oldest, Regina (Marsha Hunt), a would-be actress so they can marry; but Henry falls in love with the youngest, Billie (Kathryn Grayson).
This amusing look at a Dutch family offered welcome relief
to those tired of the current movies denigrating the Germans.
A tap dancer (Eleanor Powell) is asked to transport a magnetic mine but does not realize they are enemy agents. The idea is based on a story by Merton Kibbie (Red Skelton), who falls in love with her and foils the plot.
The music of Tommy Dorsey's band highlights this satire
of the usual 1942 spy plot.
Jefferson Harper (Victor Mature) is sent by his father on cattle business to a tropical island, where instead he falls in love with Eileen O'Brien (Betty Grable), daughter of O'Brien (Thomas Mitchell), whom he is supposed to win over.
This paradise with music provides fantasy entertainment
in vivid contrast to what Japanese and American soldiers are doing
at the time in similar surroundings.
Vicky Lane (Betty Grable) breaks up with womanizing Dan Christy (John Payne) to team up with dancer Victor Prince (Cesar Romero); but Dan goes after her in Canada, because he needs her in his new show.
This musical comedy offers easy entertainment about the
loves and jealousies of those involved in show business.
An admiral (Charles Laughton) assigns two officers (Brian Donlevy and Robert Taylor) to an old destroyer, and they re-enlist World War I veteran (Walter Brennan).
This navy film makes war entertaining by rescuing women
and babies before sinking a Japanese battleship with just a destroyer.
Busted Indian scout Johnny Ware (James Craig) on the lam tries to keep corrupt Indian agent Jim Sawyer (Dean Jagger) from marrying pretty Christine (Lucille Ball) and gets help from Lord Warrick (Cedric Hardwicke) and Willie (Peter Whitney).
This comedy-western aims to entertain and manages to amuse.
The wealthy widow Stella Hadley (Fay Bainter) transforms her character after her son Theodore (Richard Ney) becomes a war hero, and her daughter Patricia (Jean Rogers) marries soldier Michael (Van Johnson). Stella's friend Elliott (Edward Arnold) works for the War Department.
This maudlin and patriotic drama shows how people become
more dedicated and helpful during the crisis of war.
American Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) wants to go to Notre Dame to play football; but his mother (Marta Linden) makes him go to Eton, because she married Englishman Roger Carlton (Ian Hunter). Timothy meets Peter Carlton (Freddie Bartholomew) and learns to adjust to the traditional environment.
This comedy reflects the strong alliance the United States
has with England, though Timothy starts out resenting its authoritarian
hierarchy.