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1. Casablanca (Curtiz)

1942, Top Films

1938 -- 1939 -- 1940 -- 1941

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1943 -- 1944 -- 1945 -- 1946

18. Mrs. Miniver (Wyler)

3. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)

2. Bambi (Disney)

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  5. Cat People (Tourneur)

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  6. Anini-Bobo (Oliveira)

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  9. Saboteur (Hitchcock)

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  10. There Was a Father (Ozu)

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  13. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz)

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  14. I Married a Witch (Clair)

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  19. The Major and the Minor (Wilder)

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  39. Jungle Book (Korda)

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  +. Larceny, Inc. (Bacon)

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  +. Crossroads (Conway)

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  +. Tales of Manhattan (Duvivier)

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  +. The Pied Piper (Pichel)

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  +. Tarzan's New York Adventure (Thorpe)

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  +. Journey for Margaret ((Van Dyke)

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  +. Eyes in the Night (Zinnermann)

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  +. Tom and Jerry [iii]
  (Hanna-Barbera)

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Notable Mention (1942)

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  4. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)

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  7. The Palm Beach Story (Sturges)

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  8. Now, Voyager (Rapper)

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  15. Woman of the Year (Stevens)

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  22. Listen to Britain (Jennings)

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  24. The Pride of the Yankees (Wood)

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  25. The Man Who Came to Dinner (Keighley)

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  27. Went the Day Well? (Cavalcanti)

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  31. In Which We Serve (Lean)

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  36. Holiday Inn (Sandrich)

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  44. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Powell & Pressburger)

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  --. Quattro passi tra le nuvole (Blasetti)

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Additional Films

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  47. The Black Swan (King)

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  +. Rossini (Bonnard)

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  +. Road to Morocco (Butler)

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  +. The Kids Grow Up (Christensen)

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  +. Wake Island (Farrow)

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  +. The Count of Monte Cristo (Gavaldon)

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  +. Whom the Gods Love (Hartl)

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  +. In This Our Life (Huston)

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  +. Ridin' Down the Canyon (Kane)

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  +. War Dogs (Luby)

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  +. The Male Animal (Negent)

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  +. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Neill)

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  +. Gliders (Norman)

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  +. Mokey (Root)

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  +. Road to Happiness (Rosen)

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  +. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (Rawlins)

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  +. On the Sunny Side (Schuster)

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  +. Joe Smith, American (Thorpe)

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  +. This Gun for Hire (Tuttle)

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  +. A Night to Remember (Wallace)

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Critical Reception / Ranking (1942)

MUBI, Best Films

-- #1. Casablanca -- #2. Bambi -- #3. To Be or Not to Be -- #4. The Magnificent Ambersons -- #5. Cat People -- #6. Anini-Bobo -- #7. The Palm Beach Story -- #8. Now, Voyager -- #9. Saboteur -- #10. There Was a Father

-- #11. Der Fuehrer's Face -- #12. The Gold Rush -- #13. Yankee Doodle Dandy -- #14. I Married a Witch -- #15. Woman of the Year -- #16. <The Devil's Envoys> -- #17. This Gun for Hire -- #18. Mrs. Miniver -- #19. The Major and the Minor -- #20. <By Night with Torch and Spear>

-- #21. <The Murderer Lives At Number 21> -- #22. Listen to Britain -- #23. The Talk of the Town -- #24. The Pride of the Yankees -- #25. The Man Who Came to Dinner -- #26. Saludos amigos -- #27. Went the Day Well? -- #28. Random Harvest -- #29. Gentleman Jim -- #30. <The Courtyard of the Ballads>

-- #31. In Which We Serve (Lean) -- #32. Blitz Wolf <short> -- #33. The Glass Key -- #34. Hen Hop <short> -- #35. How to Play Baseball <short> -- #36. Holiday Inn -- #37. For Me and My Gal -- #38. In This Our Life -- #39. Jungle Book -- #40. The Battle of Midway (Ford)

-- #41. How to Swim <short> -- #42. The Fantastic Night -- #43. Horton Hatches the Eggs <short> -- #44. <One of Our Aircraft Is Missing> -- #45. How to Fish <short> -- #46. Men of the Mountain -- #47. The Black Swan -- #48. Tulips Shall Grow <short> -- #49. The Olympic Champ <short> -- #50. Moontide

Flickchart, Best Films

-- @1. Casablanca -- @2. To Be or Not to Be -- @3. The Magnificent Ambersons -- @4. Cat People -- @5. Now, Voyager -- @6. The Palm Beach Story -- @7. Saboteur -- @8. Mrs. Miniver -- @9. Yankee Doodle Dandy -- @10. The Pride of the Yankees

-- @11. Bambi -- @12. The Man Who Came to Dinner -- @13. <Woman of the Year> -- @14. This Gun for Hire -- @15. The Talk of the Town -- @16. I Married a Witch -- @17. Holiday Inn -- @18. The Glass Key -- @19. The Major and the Minor -- @20. Road to Morocco

-- @21. Random Harvest -- @22. The Ghost of Frankenstein -- @24. Saludos amigos -- @26. Went the Day Well? -- @28. Gentleman Jim -- @29. There Was a Father -- @30. For Me and My Gal -- @31. In Which We Serve -- @32. In This Our Life -- @33. Kings Row -- @34. The Black Swan -- @35. <Flying Tigers>

CriticsTop10, Best Films (1942)

-- =1. Mrs. Miniver -- =2. Random Harvest -- =3. Yankee Doodle Dandy -- =4. Kings Row -- =5. Wake Island -- =6. The Pride of the Yankees -- =7. The Man Who Came To Dinner -- =8. Woman of the Year -- =9. The Pied Piper -- =10. Reap the Wild Wind

-- =11. Tales of Manhattan -- =12. My Sister Eileen (1942) -- =13. Tortilla Flat -- =14. Holiday Inn -- =15. This Above All -- =16. The Talk of the Town -- =17. The Major and the Minor -- =18. Now, Voyager -- =19. Bambi -- =20. The Magnificent Ambersons -- =21. Journey for Margaret -- =22. Take a Letter, Darling -- =23. Joe Smith, American -- =24. In This Our Life -- =25. The Male Animal -- =26. For Me and My Gal -- =27. The Moon and Sixpence -- =28. Road to Morocco -- =29. George Washington Slept Here -- =30. The Gold Rush (reissue)

Oscar, Best Films

-- Mrs. Miniver -- 49th Parallel -- Kings Row -- The Magnificent Ambersons -- The Pied Piper -- The Pride of the Yankees -- Random Harvest -- The Talk of the Town -- Wake Island -- Yankee Doodle Dandy

Top Grossing Films

-- Mrs. Miniver -- Random Harvest -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Reap the Wild Wind -- Road to Morocco -- Holiday Inn -- Wake Island -- The Pride of the Yankees -- For Me and My Gal -- Somewhere I'll Find You

Schneider, Best Films

-- To Be or Not to Be -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Mrs. Miniver -- Casablanca -- Cat People

-- <The Magnificent Ambersons> -- <The Palm Beach Story> -- <Now, Voyager>

National Board of Review

-- Mrs. Miniver -- Journey for Margaret -- The Major and the Minor -- The Pied Piper -- <In Which We Serve> [W] -- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing -- Wake Island -- The Male Animal -- Sullivan's Travels (1941) -- The Moon and Sixpence

-- Moscow Strikes Back <doc> -- Native Land <doc> -- Word in Action <doc>

National Film Registry

-- Bambi -- Casablanca -- Cat People -- Mrs. Miniver -- To Be or Not to Be -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- The Magnificent Ambersons -- <Now, Voyager> -- Road to Morocco -- Woman of the Year -- Jam Session <short> -- Tulips Shall Grow <short>

American Film Institute

-- Casablanca -- Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tubi

-- Battle of Midway <doc> -- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

NYT, Best Films

-- <The Man Who Came to Dinner> -- <Woman of the Year> -- To Be or Not to Be -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Mrs. Miniver -- <The Pride of the Yankees> -- Bambi -- <The Palm Beach Story> -- The Major and the Minor -- <Now, Voyager> -- Casablanca

TSPDT, Best Films

-- Casablanca -- <The Magnificent Ambersons> -- To Be or Not to Be -- Listen to Britain -- <The Palm Beach Story> -- Cat People -- Bambi

Top10ner, Best Films

-- To Be or Not to Be -- <The Magnificent Ambersons> -- <Now, Voyager> -- Casablanca -- The Ox-Bow Incident

Film101, Best Films

-- Casablanca -- To Be or Not to Be -- Bambi -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Cat People -- <The Magnificent Ambersons -- <Now, Voyager> -- <The Palm Beach Story> -- <Woman of the Year> -- Kings Row -- <The Man Who Came to Dinner>

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- Holiday Inn -- Gentleman Jim

ChildActors, Best Films

-- * Aniki Bóbó (Portugal) -- Journey for Margaret -- The Pied Piper (UK) -- Ridin' Down the Canyon -- Road to Happiness -- Tarzan's New York Adventure -- There Was a Father (Japan)

-- On The Sunny Side -- War Dogs -- * Went the Day Well? (UK)

-- Klyatva Timura [Timur's Oath] (URSS) -- Mokey -- Our Gang: Surprised Parties -- Our Gang: Unexpected Riches

Best International Films

{Italy} -- Quattro passi tra le nuvole (The Bigamist)

{Japan} -- There Was a Father