The Best Movies Of 1941

Thorndike, a British hunter, has Hitler in his gun sights. He escapes back to London after being captured, beaten, and left for dead by German agents, aided by a young woman.

A female criminal has a new outlook on life after having plastic surgery.

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Donald visits a penny arcade where he sees a risque Daisy dancing in one of the nickelodeon shows and later has trouble with the airplane ride.

Sam Gladney was the operator of a wheat mill in Texas. Their son was killed when he was very young. Edna decided to do something about how the law treats children who are without their parents. She op...

A murder on an ocean liner in New York leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles are investigating a race-track murder when they run into a lot of shady characters.

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll...

Officially a Charles Starrett western, Riders of the Badlands divides its running time fairly evenly between Starrett and second-billed Russell Hayden. The plot concerns a Texas Ranger named Collins (...

Chronicles combat action of Hitler's elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to Greece, German frontline cameramen captured footage of early victorious campaigns. Scenes of camp lif...

Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit ...

A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.

There is a scientific expedition that discovered gold on Tarzan's escarpment. Jane and Boy were kidnapped by the villains to get to the location of the gold.

Professor Hellwig is a confirmed bachelor. He is a music historian and lives only for his passion. He has no patience for the ladies and does everything he can do drive them out of his classes by bein...

Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money owed him, hoping the sap will get rubbed out by Slugger McGraw, a rival gangster. Keaton, however, inno...

travellers are stranded at a lonely rural railway station. Local superstition says that a phantom train which is said to travel at night carrying ghosts from a train wreck in the area, can be found in...

A treasure map in four pieces, a ghost of a hanged pirate, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on a docked ship.

"And If I Marry the Pastor" - Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the ...

The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. A...

A high-society gent has a secret life in which he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police trying to solve crimes. When his wife wants to know about his disappearances and late nights out...

The Saint found a music box while on vacation.

The director's belief in the power of education to overcome distrust and establish a shared civilizational foundation for all human beings is reinforced by the tale of a Russian teacher who begins to ...

When Dr Hartung (Fritz Odemar) hits Eva (Geraldine Katt) with his car, she decides to make him her "life's mission" and free him of his "unhappy marriage" which he never declares as such. In her way s...

A fugitive and his daughter are being hunted by a hunter. He convinces the fugitive to return to town after falling in love with the girl.

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearea...

The story of a young naval recruit.

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery...

When wealthy Charles falls for Jean, it's not an accident. Jean is a con artist who wants to take advantage of Charles' wealth. Jean starts falling for her mark, which complicates the situation. Jean ...

Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up.

Donald sings Old MacDonald while feeding the animals. He goes to milk the cow, but she's not in the barn, she's up a tree. The milk goes well when she floats down. Donald leans over to check and her t...

Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.

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Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriend...

With his high school graduation behind him, Andy decided it was time to start living his life as an adult. Andy isn't sure if he wants to go to college and study law, so he heads off to New York City ...

An unlucky woman checks in a hotel pretending to be a French baroness so she can have 24 hours of dream before comitting suicide.

The Canadian Army Newsreels hold an important place in Canada's military history. The newsreels were produced by the Army for soldiers serving overseas. The front-line cameramen were soldiers first an...

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After...

cattle rustlers are taking over a town run by Belle Langtry. She is also a front for the outlaws, led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with the help of the Bar 20 boy...

Jeeter and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia, where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is in danger because of the bank's plans to take over the land...

Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in motion by an evil land baron (Donald Curtis) who uses the local Indians as labo...

Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England ...