What are the best movies in theaters 1942

Bambi

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

Release On: 14th - August - 1942

Vote Count: 4749
Vote Average: 7/10

Live-action segments show members of the Disney staff touring South America and recording their impressions in sketches. These segue into four animated sections: "Lake Titicaca" depicts tourist Donald Duck's troubles with a stubborn llama; and in "Aquarela do Brasil," Jose Carioca shows Donald the sights and sound of Rio de Janeiro.

Release On: 24th - August - 1942

Vote Count: 329
Vote Average: 5.9/10

Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Release On: 26th - November - 1942

Vote Count: 4282
Vote Average: 8.2/10

Reap the Wild Wind

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

Release On: 26th - March - 1942

Vote Count: 39
Vote Average: 6.5/10

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.

Release On: 5th - March - 1942

Vote Count: 508
Vote Average: 7.9/10

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.

Release On: 24th - April - 1942

Vote Count: 353
Vote Average: 6.9/10

Cat People

Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.

Release On: 5th - December - 1942

Vote Count: 416
Vote Average: 6.9/10

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 femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

Release On: 10th - July - 1942

Vote Count: 147
Vote Average: 7.1/10

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Ygor discovers Frankenstein's creation is still alive and brings him to the Doctor's son, Ludwig, for help. Obsessed with restoring the monster to his full potential, Ludwig is unaware that someone has more devious plans for the creature.

Release On: 13th - March - 1942

Vote Count: 93
Vote Average: 5.9/10

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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

Release On: 29th - May - 1942

Vote Count: 164
Vote Average: 7.1/10

The Magnificent Ambersons

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

Release On: 10th - July - 1942

Vote Count: 309
Vote Average: 7.3/10

I Married a Witch

Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

Release On: 30th - October - 1942

Vote Count: 136
Vote Average: 6.8/10

Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book is given the full treatment in this lavish retelling filled with huge sets, exotic animals, a large cast and the incomparable Sabu, starring as Mowgli, the young orphan boy raised by wolves. Curious to reconnect with his human village, Mowgli returns only to find disappointment in the greed and treachery of man. Over time, Mowgli and the village members do grow to trust one another, but not before the village finds itself under siege. It's up to Mowgli and his jungle friends to save the day.

Release On: 3rd - April - 1942

Vote Count: 80
Vote Average: 6.3/10

Now, Voyager

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

Release On: 22nd - October - 1942

Vote Count: 142
Vote Average: 7.4/10

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.

Release On: 4th - December - 1942

Vote Count: 60
Vote Average: 6.6/10

Mrs. Miniver

English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.

Release On: 3rd - July - 1942

Vote Count: 183
Vote Average: 7.1/10

The Pride of the Yankees

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

Release On: 14th - July - 1942

Vote Count: 91
Vote Average: 7.4/10

Woman of the Year

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

Release On: 5th - February - 1942

Vote Count: 102
Vote Average: 6.9/10

The Palm Beach Story

Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

Release On: 28th - August - 1942

Vote Count: 132
Vote Average: 7.1/10

This Gun for Hire

Sadistic killer-for-hire 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.

Release On: 24th - April - 1942

Vote Count: 113
Vote Average: 7/10