Comedy Movies
Counter-Espionage (1942)
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
A Yank at Eton (1942)
An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida…
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Cairo (1942)
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that…
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Blondie for Victory (1942)
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam… Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia’s series of comedy films based on Chic Young’s…
The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields…
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
I Married an Angel (1942)
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the “dope” takes his course. But winner…
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the “ghosts” are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin…
Ace in the Hole (1942)
Woody Woodpecker is a stable boy. The stables are located right in an airfield, and the sound of airplanes droning around only fuels his lust to fly. “I want to…
Lady in a Jam (1942)
A psychiatrist’s patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather’s abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out…
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton’s lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will…
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)
While serving time in county prison, Wallingford sees a story in the newspaper that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a mansionfrom his recently deceased uncle. Hearing this, Schenectady dreams of…
The Wacky Wabbit (1942)
While seeking gold in the desert, prospector Elmer Fudd stumbles across mischievous Bugs Bunny.
Grand Central Murder (1942)
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she’s found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida’s shady…
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and…
We Were Dancing (1942)
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
My Gal Sal (1942)
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song…
Larceny Inc. (1942)
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers…
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for…
Donald’s Snow Fight (1942)
It’s snowed, and Donald Duck is going sledding. Meanwhile, his nephews have built a snowman at the bottom of the hill. Donald aims his sled at their snowman and demolishes…
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being…
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren,…
The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum, meanwhile, is too timid…
Yokel Boy (1942)
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the “Mexican Spitfire” comedy series.
Song of the Islands (1942)
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O’Brien. But…
The Male Animal (1942)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because…
Rio Rita (1942)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy.