British Films 1942 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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1. Alibi (1942)
66 min | Crime, Mystery
A bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Sinclair, James Mason, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 72
2. Asking for Trouble (1942)
81 min | Comedy
A London fishmonger takes up bookmaking to make ends meet, and also helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiance, a big game hunter from Africa.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Max Miller, Carole Lynne, Mark Lester, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 37
3. Adventure in Blackmail (1942)
79 min | Drama, Romance
Peter Conway is a playwright and his new play is having its first night. At the party afterwards, Peter is kissed by a woman he claims not to know. The woman is Pamela. At first, she ... See full summary »
Directors: Harold Huth, Roland Pertwee | Stars: Clive Brook, Judy Campbell, C.V. France, Marguerite Allan
Votes: 24
4. Flying Fortress (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War
Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart
Votes: 128
5. A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942)
102 min | Drama
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 393
6. Hard Steel (1942)
86 min | Drama
A ruthless steelworks foreman alienates his workers and indirectly causes the death of one of his men.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Betty Stockfeld, George Carney, John Stuart
Votes: 14
7. Lady from Lisbon (1942)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Thriller, War
Wishing to acquire the Mona Lisa, a South American racketeer makes a deal with the Nazis for the famous portrait.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Francis L. Sullivan, Jane Carr, Martita Hunt, Charles Victor
Votes: 63
8. Let the People Sing (1942)
105 min | Comedy
A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Alastair Sim, Fred Emney, Edward Rigby, Oliver Wakefield
Votes: 66
10. Courageous Mr. Penn (1942)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Clifford Evans, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Arundell, Aubrey Mallalieu
Votes: 167
11. Rose of Tralee (1942)
77 min | Musical
Paddy, an Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family. He joins The Royal Air Force.
Director: Germain Burger | Stars: John Longden, Lesley Brook, Angela Glynne, Mabel Constanduros
12. Sabotage at Sea (1942)
61 min | Drama, War
The captain of a cargo ship shanghais saboteurs unaware that the daughter of the ship's owner is among them.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: David Hutcheson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 52
13. Salute John Citizen (1942)
96 min | Drama, War
Bunting (Edward Rigby) is sacked in 1938 but when war breaks out in 1939 he is reinstated and also becomes an air raid warden. His two sons enlist in the war, leaving Bunting and his wife looking after their baby grandson.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Edward Rigby, Mabel Constanduros, Jimmy Hanley, Eric Micklewood
Votes: 34
14. Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
While yachting and flirting on the Riviera, a woman with a past meets a shy, retiring young researcher from the Far East and, against her better judgment, marries him. When he runs across ... See full summary »
Directors: Harold French, Paul L. Stein | Stars: Carla Lehmann, Hugh Williams, Joyce Howard, John Warwick
Votes: 23
15. The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan, Malcolm Keen, Michael Shepley
Votes: 94
16. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Robert Donat, Geoffrey Atkins, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley
Votes: 445
17. This Was Paris (1942)
Approved | 77 min | War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, Robert Morley
Votes: 100
18. Those Kids from Town (1942)
82 min | Comedy
At the outbreak of World War II, cockney evacuee boys are moved from the slums of London to the country home of an earl.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Shirley Lenner, Jeanne De Casalis, Percy Marmont, D.J. Williams
19. Uncensored (1942)
83 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 16
20. Wavell's 30,000 (1942)
48 min | Documentary, War
The WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
Director: John Monck | Star: Colin Wills
Votes: 15
21. We'll Smile Again (1942)
93 min | Comedy, Musical
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Meinhart Maur, Phyllis Stanley
Votes: 37
22. The Seventh Survivor (1942)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Survivors from a torpedoed passenger vessel are rescued by a lighthouse crew. Ironically, the German captain responsible for the attack is also rescued and held prisoner, but a spy among the survivors plans to help him escape.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Austin Trevor, Linden Travers, John Stuart, Martita Hunt
Votes: 124
23. A Way to Plough (1942)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Clifford Hornby | Star: Frederick Grisewood
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