Comedy Movies
Destruction Inc. (1942)
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant…who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
A Night to Remember (1942)
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find…
How to Fish (1942)
Goofy’s demonstration of fishing is fouled up by his clumsy casting and fly fishing, and problems with his boat.
Behind the Eight Ball (1942)
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars…
Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942)
Andy is about to head off to college but he’s got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car…
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Lucky Jordan (1942)
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he’s drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie…
Gentleman Jim (1942)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
That Other Woman (1942)
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
Road to Morocco (1942)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
The Hidden Hand (1942)
Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money.
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy’s womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan’s career…
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.
Who Done It? (1942)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder…
I Married a Witch (1942)
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have…
How to Swim (1942)
Goofy’s plans to give a swimming lesson and enjoy a day at the beach go awry.
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
The Olympic Champ (1942)
A narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.
Panama Hattie (1942)
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie’s nightclub in the Canal Zone.
My Sister Eileen (1942)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes…
The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942)
Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
Mexican Spitfire’s Elephant (1942)
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship…
Tish (1942)
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn’t enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price….
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.