FILM-NOIR Watchlist: 1942
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1. Bullet Scars (1942)
Passed | 59 min | Drama
Gangster Frank Dillon abducts Dr. Steven Bishop to treat wounded Joe Madison. Dillon also takes Joe's nurse sister. Dillon threatens Bishop's life if Joe dies, but Bishop knows Dillon will kill him anyway.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire, Howard Da Silva, Ben Welden
Votes: 248
2. Dr. Broadway (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York City physician, Dr. Timothy Kane, knows Broadway, the Great White Way and all of its characters thoroughly, as does his receptionist, Connie Madigan. A man Kane had sent to prison ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane
Votes: 134
3. Juke Girl (1942)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick.... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias
Votes: 545
4. Man from Headquarters (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Crime reporter Larry Doyle, who contributes to the capture of the Padroni gang, is later framed for murder by the gang leader.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Frank Albertson, Joan Woodbury, Dick Elliott, Byron Foulger
Votes: 115
5. The Boss of Big Town (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by a courageous undercover city market official.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, John Miljan
Votes: 117
6. Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Thriller
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal
Votes: 1,233
7. Criminal Investigator (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Edith Fellows, John Miljan, Jan Wiley
Votes: 62
8. Escape from Crime (1942)
Approved | 51 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Richard Travis, Julie Bishop, Jackie Gleason, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 277
9. A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband,... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hopkins, Preston Foster, Harold Huber
Votes: 131
10. 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
11. I Live on Danger (1942)
73 min | Thriller
Eddie Nelson is wrongly accused of murder, and journalist Jeff Morrell and Nelson's sister, Susan Richards, fight to prove his innocence.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Norris
Votes: 108
12. I Was Framed (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tod Andrews, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Patti Hale
Votes: 213
13. Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
Journalist Steve O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 3,229
14. Murder in the Big House (1942)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Faye Emerson, Van Johnson, George Meeker, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 278
15. Nazi Agent (1942)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Conrad Veidt), one a loyal American, and the other, a Nazi official.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree
Votes: 803
16. Terror House (1942)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard
Votes: 861
17. Night in New Orleans (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Police Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 94
18. Rubber Racketeers (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Drama
Gilin, is just released from prison and now that the government has clamped down on the sale of tires, decides to enter the tire-stealing-for-resell racket. Driving home, he has a car wreck... See full summary »
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Rochelle Hudson, William Henry, Barbara Read
Votes: 106
19. Sealed Lips (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective begins to suspect that a man may be in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: William Gargan, June Clyde, John Litel, Anne Nagel
Votes: 98
20. Secret Enemies (1942)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Thriller
A lawyer becomes a government secret agent after an agent-friend of his is murdered, and discovers a nest of German spies operating out of a former client's hotel.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely, Charles Lang
Votes: 225
21. Secrets of a Co-Ed (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
A free-spirited college girl insists on carrying on her romance with a young mobster, scandalizing the town and going against the wishes of her father, the town's most prominent attorney--... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Otto Kruger, Tina Thayer, Rick Vallin, Russell Hoyt
Votes: 53
22. Suspected Person (1942)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth
Votes: 130
23. Today I Hang (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Henry Courtney, a wealthy importer is found murdered and the famous DeNormand necklace has been stolen. The false testimony of two witnesses, Rand and Hobbs, puts Jim O'Brien in the shadow of the hangman's noose.
Directors: Oliver Drake, George M. Merrick | Stars: Walter Woolf King, Mona Barrie, William Farnum, Harry Woods
Votes: 73
24. Tomorrow We Live (I) (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Julie is wooed by gangster Martin. She knows that her 'Pop' is in cahoots with Martin and, too avoid complications, refuses to marry her sweetheart Bob. But when Martin thinks Pop has double-crossed him, he flips out in a murderous rage.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Jean Parker, Emmett Lynn, William Marshall
Votes: 201
25. Tough As They Come (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
The 'Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Billy Halop, Paul Kelly, Helen Parrish, Ann Gillis
Votes: 51
26. A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Mona Barrie
Votes: 163
27. Unpublished Story (1942)
92 min | Drama, War
A journalist investigates a network of German fifth columnists operating in the midst of the Blitz.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver
Votes: 262
28. Went the Day Well? (1942)
Approved | 92 min | Thriller, War
An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
Votes: 4,342 | Gross: $0.02M
29. X Marks the Spot (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue
Votes: 292
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