British Films 1942 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsMargaret LockwoodHugh SinclairJames MasonA bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsMax MillerCarole LynneMark LesterA London fishmonger takes up bookmaking to make ends meet, and also helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiance, a big game hunter from Africa.
- DirectorHarold HuthRoland PertweeStarsClive BrookJudy CampbellC.V. FrancePeter Conway is a playwright and his new play is having its first night. At the party afterwards, Peter is kissed by a woman he claims not to know. The woman is Pamela. At first, she persuades him but then produces some letters where he declared his undying love for her and she sues him for Breach of Promise. But Peter has a nice scheme to defeat her plan - he marries her. She then does her best to bankrupt him. But why does she want to destroy him?
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsRichard GreeneCarla LehmannBetty StockfeldWartime drama of bomber crews based in England.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonJames MasonDeborah KerrJames Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But, when his mistress convinces him to give her "step-brother" Denis (former boyfriend) a job at the hat shop, tragedy starts creeping towards all involved with Brodie.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsWilfrid LawsonBetty StockfeldGeorge CarneyA ruthless steelworks foreman alienates his workers and indirectly causes the death of one of his men.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsFrancis L. SullivanJane CarrMartita HuntWishing to acquire the Mona Lisa, a South American racketeer makes a deal with the Nazis for the famous portrait.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsAlastair SimFred EmneyEdward RigbyA Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
- StarsH Victor Weske
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsClifford EvansDeborah KerrDennis ArundellWilliam Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- DirectorGermain BurgerStarsJohn LongdenLesley BrookAngela GlynnePaddy, an Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family. He joins The Royal Air Force.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsDavid HutchesonMargaretta ScottJane CarrThe captain of a cargo ship shanghais saboteurs unaware that the daughter of the ship's owner is among them.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEdward RigbyMabel ConstandurosJimmy HanleyBunting (Edward Rigby) is sacked in 1938 but when war breaks out in 1939 he is reinstated and also becomes an air raid warden. His two sons enlist in the war, leaving Bunting and his wife looking after their baby grandson.
- DirectorHarold FrenchPaul L. SteinStarsCarla LehmannHugh WilliamsJoyce HowardWhile yachting and flirting on the Riviera, a woman with a past meets a shy, retiring young researcher from the Far East and, against her better judgment, marries him. When he runs across some scandalous gossip touching her past, her younger sister steps in claiming she is the subject of the notoriety.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsWilfrid LawsonElizabeth AllanMalcolm KeenA lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsRobert DonatGeoffrey AtkinsJean CadellThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsAnn DvorakBen LyonGriffith JonesOn the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsShirley LennerJeanne De CasalisPercy MarmontAt the outbreak of World War II, cockney evacuee boys are moved from the slums of London to the country home of an earl.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEric PortmanPhyllis CalvertGriffith JonesDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
- DirectorJohn MonckStarsColin WillsThe WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenMeinhart MaurNazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorLinden TraversJohn StuartSurvivors from a torpedoed passenger vessel are rescued by a lighthouse crew. Ironically, the German captain responsible for the attack is also rescued and held prisoner, but a spy among the survivors plans to help him escape.
- DirectorClifford HornbyStarsFrederick Grisewood