1942 Comedy Movies

207 movies found (page 1/7):

The Major and the Minor(1942)

3.5/5 (with 53 votes)

Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Will Wright, ...

The Man Who Came to Dinner(1942)

1h 52min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

Directed by William Keighley - With Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, ...

The Murderer Lives at Number 21(1942)

1h 24min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

A serial killer by the name of Monsieur Durand stalks the streets of Paris. When Inspector Wens learns that the killer stays at a Paris boarding house, he gets a room there to keep watch.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey, Jean Tissier, Albert Malbert, ...

Once Upon a Honeymoon(1942)

1h 57min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, ...

The Talk of the Town(1942)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Directed by George Stevens - With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, ...

The Dover Boys at Pimento University(1942)

9min | Animation, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

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.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Blitz Wolf(1942)

10min | Animation, Comedy, War

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.

Directed by Tex Avery

Who Done It?(1942)

1h 17min | Comedy, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

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 when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Gargan, William Bendix, Mary Wickes, Patric Knowles, ...

A-Haunting We Will Go(1942)

1h 8min | Adventure, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

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

Directed by Alfred L. Werker - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Elisha Cook Jr., Harry August Jansen, Sheila Ryan, Addison Richards, ...

Pardon My Sarong(1942)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

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 finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, William Demarest, ...

Donald's Gold Mine(1942)

7min | Animation

2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Donald is digging in his gold mine, mostly generic looking dark rocks, and being clumsy, to the great amusement of his burro, when he accidentally fills his cart with a load of pure gold. The burro takes off and dumps the cart, Donald and all, into a scary looking crusher. Donald barely makes it through the machinery.

Directed by Dick Lundy

The Three Musketeers(1942)

2h 16min | Adventure, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Alfonso Bedoya, Andrés Soler, Cantinflas, Consuelo Frank, Julio Villarreal, Miguel Inclán, ...

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The Lady Is Willing(1942)

1h 32min | Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen - With Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Arline Judge, Charles Lane, David James, ...

Viaje sin destino(1942)

1h 13min | Comedy, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny.

Directed by Rafael Gil - With Luchy Soto, Antonio Casal, Alberto Romea, Manuel Arbó, José María Prada, Camino Garrigó, ...

Counter-Espionage(1942)

1h 13min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

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

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Forrest Tucker, ...

The Goose Steps Out(1942)

1h 19min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

Directed by Will Hay, Basil Dearden - With Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov

Ride 'Em Cowboy(1942)

1h 22min | Comedy, Western

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Ella Fitzgerald, Samuel S. Hinds, ...

My Sister Eileen(1942)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

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 to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.

Directed by Alexander Hall - With Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell, ...

The Tuttles of Tahiti(1942)

1h 31min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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 romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.

Directed by Charles Vidor - With Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Victor Francen, Gene Reynolds, Florence Bates, Curt Bois, ...

Grand Central Murder(1942)

1h 13min | Mystery, Crime, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

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 ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.

Directed by S. Sylvan Simon - With Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Sam Levene, Arthur Q. Bryan, Bert Roach, Cecilia Parker, ...

The Boogie Man Will Get You(1942)

1h 6min | Comedy, Horror

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks, Jeff Donnell

Non ti pago!(1942)

1h 12min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.

Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia - With Eduardo De Filippo, Titina De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Vanna Vanni, Paolo Stoppa, Fratelli De Rege, ...

Blondie for Victory(1942)

1h 11min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer

Whispering Ghosts(1942)

1h 15min | Mystery, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.

Directed by Alfred L. Werker - With Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Carradine, Willie Best, Edmund MacDonald, Arthur Hohl, ...

El hombre que se quiso matar(1942)

1h 20min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Rafael Gil - With Antonio Casal, Rosita Yarza, Manuel Arbó, José Prada, Xan das Bolas

Twin Beds(1942)

1h 25min | Comedy

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Directed by Tim Whelan - With George Brent, Joan Bennett, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel

There's Room Up Ahead(1942)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

Directed by Mario Bonnard, Gastone Bartolucci - With Aldo Fabrizi, Andrea Checchi, Adriana Benetti, Virgilio Riento, Carlo Micheluzzi, Jone Morino, ...

Blondie Goes to College(1942)

1h 14min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Number 10 in the Blondie series, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie (Penny Singleton) enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth (Janet Blair) begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant (Larry Parks) does same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too. The student body at this particular seat of learning is comprised of quite a few familiar faces, including Lloyd Bridges, Sid Melton, and Adele Mara.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer - With Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Love Marriage(1942)

1h 22min | Comedy

Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by. The store manager, Bernard, falls in love with Denise and arranges to take her to an inn not far from Paris, run by the handsome Robert. This one opens Denise's eyes who ends up returning to her home. After a fight between Pierre and Bernard, Denise ends up choosing to stay with Pierre.

Directed by Henri Decoin - With Edmond Castel, François Périer, Georges Péclet, Georges Rollin, Henri Delivry, Jeanne Véniat, ...

George Washington Slept Here(1942)

1h 33min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

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 actually slept during the American Revolution.

Directed by William Keighley - With Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Charles Dingle, Douglas Croft, Franklin Pangborn, ...