Comedy Movies

Counter-Espionage (1942)

Counter-Espionage (1942)

Counter-Espionage (1942)
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73

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

A Yank at Eton (1942)

A Yank at Eton (1942)

A Yank at Eton (1942)
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88

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Palm Beach Story (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)
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88

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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Talk of the Town (1942)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

The Talk of the Town (1942)
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118

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.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cairo (1942)

Cairo (1942)

Cairo (1942)
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101

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Pardon My Sarong (1942)

Pardon My Sarong (1942)

Pardon My Sarong (1942)
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84

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…

Genre: Comedy
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)

The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
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83

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

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A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
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68

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Blondie for Victory (1942)

Blondie for Victory (1942)

Blondie for Victory (1942)
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71

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…

Genre: Comedy
The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)

The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)

The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)
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103

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to…

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Genre: Comedy
Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)
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118

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
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93

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Fantastic Night (1942)

Fantastic Night (1942)

Fantastic Night (1942)
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90

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep…

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I Married an Angel (1942)

I Married an Angel (1942)

I Married an Angel (1942)
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84

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

The Magnificent Dope (1942)
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83

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…

Genre: Comedy
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
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75

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…

Genre: Comedy
Ace in the Hole (1942)

Ace in the Hole (1942)

Ace in the Hole (1942)
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7

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…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Lady in a Jam (1942)

Lady in a Jam (1942)

Lady in a Jam (1942)
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78

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)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
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85

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)

It Happened in Flatbush (1942)

It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
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80

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tortilla Flat (1942)

Tortilla Flat (1942)

Tortilla Flat (1942)
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105

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)

Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)

Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)
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64

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…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
The Wacky Wabbit (1942)

The Wacky Wabbit (1942)

The Wacky Wabbit (1942)
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7

While seeking gold in the desert, prospector Elmer Fudd stumbles across mischievous Bugs Bunny.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Grand Central Murder (1942)

Grand Central Murder (1942)

Grand Central Murder (1942)
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73

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…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)

The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)

The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
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91

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…

Genre: Comedy
We Were Dancing (1942)

We Were Dancing (1942)

We Were Dancing (1942)
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95

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
My Gal Sal (1942)

My Gal Sal (1942)

My Gal Sal (1942)
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103

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Larceny Inc. (1942)

Larceny Inc. (1942)

Larceny Inc. (1942)
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96

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Ship Ahoy (1942)

Ship Ahoy (1942)

Ship Ahoy (1942)
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95

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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Donald’s Snow Fight (1942)

Donald’s Snow Fight (1942)

Donald’s Snow Fight (1942)
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7

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…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
My Favorite Blonde (1942)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)
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78

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…

Genre: Comedy
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
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86

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,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
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78

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…

Genre: Comedy
Yokel Boy (1942)

Yokel Boy (1942)

Yokel Boy (1942)
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69

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.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
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72

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.

Genre: Comedy
Song of the Islands (1942)

Song of the Islands (1942)

Song of the Islands (1942)
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76

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Male Animal (1942)

The Male Animal (1942)

The Male Animal (1942)
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101

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…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rio Rita (1942)

Rio Rita (1942)

Rio Rita (1942)
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91

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Genre: Comedy, Music
A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)
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83

An old woman’s poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
To Be or Not to Be (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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99

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy.

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War