Top 10 Action Movies of 1942
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- DirectorJohn HustonVincent ShermanStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorSydney GreenstreetIn December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPriscilla LaneRobert CummingsOtto KrugerA young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnRonald ReaganNancy ColemanWhen the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsPaul MuniAnna LeeLillian GishA gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
- DirectorLew LandersBudd BoetticherStarsJohn HowardMarguerite ChapmanBruce BennettAn American yacht is sunk by a Japanese submarine on its way to Pearl Harbour, and when the single survivor is picked up by a US submarine, the commander tries desperately to warn the mainland of the imminent attack.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsHumphrey BogartIrene ManningRichard TravisFearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsRobert TaylorBrian DonlevyCharles LaughtonDuring WW2, two Navy officers take command of an obsolete, World War I-vintage, destroyer that is assigned to convoy-escort duty in the Japanese-controlled waters of the South Pacific.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBrian DonlevyRobert PrestonMacdonald CareyDecember, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
- DirectorNoël CowardStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard MilesThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsHugh WilliamsGriffith JonesDeborah KerrOn the eve of WWII, a British journalist is sent to neutral Norway to report on the possible Nazi intentions there; later he's tasked with a secret combat mission after Germany invades that country.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsKane RichmondMarguerite ChapmanSam FlintAlan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsIlona MasseyJon HallPeter LorreThe Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
- DirectorFord BeebeJohn RawlinsStarsLon Chaney Jr.Helen ParrishNoah Beery Jr.Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsHumphrey BogartConrad VeidtKaren VerneRunyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsLyle TalbotJune DuprezVictor VarconiThe British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry (Charles Rogers). Inga (June Duprez), a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter (Victor Varconi), betrays their hiding place. The three overpower the Gestapo men sent after them, take their uniforms and enter the prison camp and free Heden. The four men then start for the coast to meet the Commando expedition. Inga, who the men still trust, again informs von Ritter and Falken is captured but Bob and Harry escape with the aid of Dalberg, who they thought was a Quisling stooge.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsMichael WhalenAnne NagelWilliam BakewellNazi spies in the USA try to steal the formula for synthetic oil and ship it to Germany by means of a night plane called the Dawn Express.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJames CraigBonita GranvilleFrank JenksAfter Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsWard BondDorothy TreeWarren HymerA team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithRay TaylorStarsKent TaylorIrene HerveyRalph MorganDetective lieutenant Bill Bannister is assigned to run down an unknown gang of terrorists who have spread a net of crime over the city.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJohnny WeissmullerMaureen O'SullivanJohnny SheffieldTarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBuster CrabbeAl St. JohnCaroline BurkeEscaping from the Marshal, Billy and Fuzzy ride to Laramy only to find it a ghost town. Sykes and his gang have driven people away while they look for the gold mine of a man they have killed. Billy hopes to straighten things out, but is in more trouble when his true identity becomes known.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBuster CrabbeAl St. JohnDave O'BrienBilly and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBuster CrabbeAl St. JohnDave O'BrienIn this entry in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series (aka "Billy the Kid in Law and Order") Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones, are arrested and brought to Ft. Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander, Lt. Ted Morrison, are exact doubles. Learning of a plot to swindle Aunt Mary Todd, a rich, blind relative of Morrison's, by marrying her off to impostor Simms instead of her sweetheart George Fremont who is on his way to her ranch, Billy and his pals escape and head for the ranch. Mil Crawford, head of the gang scheming to get hold of the blind woman's fortune through Simms, has two men hold up the stage and kill Fremont and Morrison. Finding the bodies, Billy impersonates Morrison, and Crawford is furious when he sees Billy and mistakes him for the nephew, figuring his men had failed.The next day Linda, the niece of Fremont, arrives for the wedding and Billy meets her stagecoach and arranges for her to denounce Simms as an impostor.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsAnn CorioBuster CrabbeEvelyn WahlA woman who was raised in the jungle helps a man fight Nazis who are trying to start a native uprising.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBuster CrabbeAl St. JohnDave O'BrienKnowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When the gang wound a rancher, the Doc finishes him off with his needle. Running from the law again, Billy and his pals arrive and take up the ranchers fight. But when Billy's pal Jeff is wounded, Fuzzy unknowningly takes him to Doc Hagan.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsBuster CrabbeAl St. JohnMalcolm 'Bud' McTaggartStanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.