Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1942

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip42banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1942: World Premieres</b></Font><br>  <a href=persac42.html>My 1942 Oscar Ballot</a></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Casablanca</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Magnificent Ambersons</Font></b></Font> Dir. Orson Welles. With Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Now, Voyager</Font></b></Font> Dir. Irving Rapper. With Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=bambi.html style="text-decoration:none">Bambi</a></b></Font> Dir. David Hand. Animated. Voices of Hardie Albright, Tim Davis, Peter Behn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Saboteur</Font></b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Yankee Doodle Dandy</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Random Harvest</Font></b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Susan Peters <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">To Be or Not To Be</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">This Gun for Hire</Font></b></Font> Dir. Frank Tuttle. With Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Laird Cregar <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Holiday Inn</Font></b></Font> Dir. Mark Sandrich. With Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1942</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog/Favorites Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=battmidw.html style="text-decoration:none">The Battle of Midway</a></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. Documentary. Voices of Donald Crisp, Irving Pichel <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=wkisland.html style="text-decoration:none">Wake Island</a></b></Font> Dir. John Farrow. With Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, William Bendix <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1942</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Across the Pacific</b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Black Swan</b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Cat People</b></Font> Dir. Jacques Tourneur. With Simon Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>For Me and My Gal</b></Font> Dir. Busby Berkeley. With Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Der Fuehrer's Face</b></Font> Dir. Jack Kinney. Animated. Voice of Clarence Nash <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Gentleman Jim</b></Font> Dir. Raoul Walsh. With Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Ward Bond <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Glass Key</b></Font> Dir. Stuart Heisler. With Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>In This Our Life</b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Joan of Paris</b></Font> Dir. Robert Stevenson. With Mich&#232le Morgan, Paul Henreid, Laird Cregar <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Keeper of the Flame</b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Kings Row</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Major and the Minor</b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Man Who Came to Dinner</b></Font> Dir. William Keighley. With Monty Woolley, Bette Davis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=mrsminiv.html style="text-decoration:none">Mrs. Miniver</a></b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Ney <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Sister Eileen</b></Font> Dir. Alexander Hall. With Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Once Upon a Honeymoon</b></Font> Dir. Leo McCarey. With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Palm Beach Story</b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Pied Piper</b></Font> Dir. Irving Pichel. With Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=pridyank.html style="text-decoration:none">The Pride of the Yankees</a></b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Roxie Hart</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Talk of the Town</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>This Above All</b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tortilla Flat</b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Hedy Lamarr <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Woman of the Year</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1942</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Bedtime Story</b></Font> Dir. Alexander Hall. With Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Cairo</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>I Married a Witch</b></Font> Dir. Ren&#233 Clair. With Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Susan Hayward<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>In Which We Serve</b></Font> Dirs. No&#235l Coward & David Lean. With No&#235l Coward, John Mills<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Johnny Eager</b></Font> Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Moontide</b></Font> Dir. Archie Mayo. With Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>One of Our Aircraft Is Missing</b></Font> Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Reap the Wild Wind</b></Font> Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. With Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Road to Morocco</b></Font> Dir. David Butler. With Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Thunder Rock</b></Font> Dir. Roy Boulting. With Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>My Gal Sal</b></Font> Dir. Irving Cummings. With Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Orchestra Wives</b></Font> Dir. Archie Mayo. With George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tales of Manhattan</b></Font> Dir. Julien Duvivier. With Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Henry Fonda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The War Against Mrs. Hadley</b></Font> Dir. Harold S. Bucquet. With Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>We Were Dancing</b></Font> Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. With Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas<br> </Table> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><strong><a href=movies42home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movies42.html target="_top">1942</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></strong></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>